Flat, uninspired, joyless. I love Robert Downey Jr. but don't expect an inspired performance here. Difficult to blame him though, the script is dull and lifeless. A journeyman remake that seems singularly obsessed with turning Sherlock Holmes into a UFC champion. Nothing else here. Sadly, the wonderful Robert Downey Jr. is left mumbling incoherently - before as well as after his ceaseless cage fights in merry old England. Jude Law turns in a more interesting performance as a different kind of Dr. Watson - but it's like a nice ditty on a sinking ship. Mr. Richie was just the wrong man to put at the helm - maybe at any helm.