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Mr Holmes (DVD)
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Genre | Thriller |
Format | DVD, PAL |
Contributor | Laura Linney, Bill Condon, Hiroyuki Sanada, Milo Parker, Ian McKellen |
Runtime | 1 hour and 44 minutes |
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Ian McKellen stars as the famous sleuth Sherlock Holmes in this crime drama adaptation directed by Bill Condon. Set in 1947, the long-retired detective, now aged 93, lives in exile and spends his days tending to his bees and completing his memoirs. As Holmes examines the numerous achievements of his life, he finds himself continually troubled by his last ever case involving a beautiful woman (Hattie Morahan) which still remains unsolved. With his health failing, and his mind not as sharp as it once was, Holmes uses his fragmented memories of the case to try and piece the mystery together.
Product details
- Aspect Ratio : 2.35:1
- Package Dimensions : 18.8 x 13.6 x 1.4 cm; 85 Grams
- Director : Bill Condon
- Media Format : DVD, PAL
- Run time : 1 hour and 44 minutes
- Release date : 17 December 2015
- Actors : Milo Parker, Hiroyuki Sanada, Laura Linney, Ian McKellen
- Dubbed: : English
- Language : English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
- Studio : UniversalSony
- ASIN : B01FR34RC6
- Country of origin : Australia
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: 8,574 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- 6,637 in Movies (Movies & TV)
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C. J. Simmons
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fantastically Acted
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 July 2020Verified Purchase
Saturday night and I could not decide what to watch. We've all been there. So, eventually after much humming and hawing I finally picked Mr Holmes, whilst muttering 'I'll give it the first twenty minutes...'! I watched the whole film, immediately transported to 1947 and immediately enchanted with the film, the plot, McKellen's acting as well as the surprise turn from Laura Linney as his housekeeper. This film really leapt off the screen for me and I loved it. Holmes, at 93, through the onset of dementia, tries to piece together his last case, the one he failed, the one that made him retire from his world and to the English countryside. This film was a complete surprise and one of the best films I've seen in the past few years. It is a tale about failure, loss, being alone and loneliness and a man living up to/in competition with the fictionalised persona in Dr Watson's bestselling books of the real man's exploits. A big recommendation from me.
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L.W
5.0 out of 5 stars
I love this film but leave all your expectations at the ...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 February 2018Verified Purchase
Mr Holmes is set in the 1940s, Holmes is in his 90s and his health and memory is failing him. Watson is gone, so is Baker Street, he is very much a man out of his time in a world which has now entered the atomic age. He lives in rural surrey and is long into retirement, beekeeping is his passion. A housekeeper and window live with him along with her young son, the dynamic between the three creates most of the conflict within the film, the boy of course is drawn in awe to the legendary detective while the mother is concerned about this. Holmes himself is all too aware of the inflated view the public has of him and decides he will finally try to write up his own novel in order to get it right this time, but is his memory up to it?
I love this film but leave all your expectations at the front door. This isn't your typical Holmes adventure, it's more of a sad meditation on life, loss, guilt, relationships and aging. The makeup work is superb making Ian McKellen a 90 something. In the sequences of Holmes in his 60s, back in the Edwardian period McKellen plays him with much more of the flair you find in the novels. The colour palette is also a bit richer in the Edwardian period.
I love this film but leave all your expectations at the front door. This isn't your typical Holmes adventure, it's more of a sad meditation on life, loss, guilt, relationships and aging. The makeup work is superb making Ian McKellen a 90 something. In the sequences of Holmes in his 60s, back in the Edwardian period McKellen plays him with much more of the flair you find in the novels. The colour palette is also a bit richer in the Edwardian period.


L.W
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 February 2018
I love this film but leave all your expectations at the front door. This isn't your typical Holmes adventure, it's more of a sad meditation on life, loss, guilt, relationships and aging. The makeup work is superb making Ian McKellen a 90 something. In the sequences of Holmes in his 60s, back in the Edwardian period McKellen plays him with much more of the flair you find in the novels. The colour palette is also a bit richer in the Edwardian period.
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Wakeman
3.0 out of 5 stars
The Retirement of Sherlock Holmes
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 April 2018Verified Purchase
Possible spoilers.
The film is an adaptation of a Mitch Cullin book, depicting Holmes in his 90s. There are some differences in the story, particularly in the fate of the young boy that Holmes is teaching about bees and their habits. I have difficulties, as I did with the novel, in accepting that a 90+ year-old would be capable of a long & arduous journey to and around Japan, just after WWII. However, Ian McKellen is excellent in the role and the overall tone of the piece is 'feel-good', except for the way in which one of Holmes' old cases is resolved.
One to pass the time in a pleasant way. I would recommend that you read A Slight Trick of the Mind , but be prepared for a much less happy ending.
The film is an adaptation of a Mitch Cullin book, depicting Holmes in his 90s. There are some differences in the story, particularly in the fate of the young boy that Holmes is teaching about bees and their habits. I have difficulties, as I did with the novel, in accepting that a 90+ year-old would be capable of a long & arduous journey to and around Japan, just after WWII. However, Ian McKellen is excellent in the role and the overall tone of the piece is 'feel-good', except for the way in which one of Holmes' old cases is resolved.
One to pass the time in a pleasant way. I would recommend that you read A Slight Trick of the Mind , but be prepared for a much less happy ending.
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Hans Skaarup
5.0 out of 5 stars
One of the worlds best actors. You can see it again and again ...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 January 2016Verified Purchase
I met Ian McKellan in my hometown Copemhagen i the 1970ties, when he made a guest-performance at our National Museum together with an actress. An evening dedicated to Shakespeare. In my memory a most extraordinary evening. A common friend in London said to me, "Go and see him and say hello from me". I did, and met a very friendly person. Since then I have followed McKellans life and carreer on film and in TV.
McKellan as the old Holmes is a wonderfull experience. One of the worlds best actors. You can see it again and again and still experience new things. The production as a whole, the actors, photography, all deserves the greatest praise. I have seen it in Blu-Ray.
Hans Skaarup
Copenhagen
McKellan as the old Holmes is a wonderfull experience. One of the worlds best actors. You can see it again and again and still experience new things. The production as a whole, the actors, photography, all deserves the greatest praise. I have seen it in Blu-Ray.
Hans Skaarup
Copenhagen
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Doug Mitchell
5.0 out of 5 stars
Wonderful acting
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 July 2020Verified Purchase
Great moving film. Fine acting. We are going to stay Bed and Breakfast in the house it was filmed in next September. Not sure why Mr Holmes lived in the dusty attic.....hope our rooms are better.