Mr Holmes (2015)

[Rick Kitchen]

God, I love this film.  A master class in acting from both Ian McKellan and an unrecognizable Laura Linney (I'd like opinions on her accent, to me she sounded great).  And the little boy who plays Roger is also superb - Milo Parker.

 

I would love to see Oscar noms from McKellan and Linney, but I doubt if this small film will be recognized.

 

[harrie]

Also loved Mr. Holmes.  I'm probably wrong, but I feel like McKellen and Linney are automatically on the nomination radar screen- meaning that they're reliably good-to-excellent in any performance, and well-liked by those who nominate.  I've seen a couple of commercials for it, so it's at least getting some publicity.

 

I kept thinking I'd seen Milo Parker in something else, but I haven't.  I also spent a good deal of the film looking for John Sessions - big fan of the British Who's Line show here -- but didn't realize he was Mycroft, showing up at the very end.  

[AimingforYoko]

It was a bit of a downer, not as much as I thought when Roger appeared to have died, but still kind of melancholy, even though Holmes had made peace with it at the end.

[MichelleAK]

Also loved Mr. Holmes.  I'm probably wrong, but I feel like McKellen and Linney are automatically on the nomination radar screen- meaning that they're reliably good-to-excellent in any performance, and well-liked by those who nominate.  I've seen a couple of commercials for it, so it's at least getting some publicity.

 

I kept thinking I'd seen Milo Parker in something else, but I haven't.  I also spent a good deal of the film looking for John Sessions - big fan of the British Who's Line show here -- but didn't realize he was Mycroft, showing up at the very end.  

 

Another big fan of the movie here.  I thought it was beautifully done (as was Gods & Monsters, by the same director and star).  Lovely performances by all the actors.  

 

I thought Milo Parker looked familiar, too, then I realized he looks an awful lot like Thomas Brodie-Sangster did in when he was in Love, Actually. At first I thought they might be related, but it doesn't appear they are.  

[VCRTracking]

I love that the movie version of Sherlock Holmes watched by the real Holmes is played by Nicholas Rowe,  the star of 1985's Young Sherlock Holmes!

[Bruinsfan]

When I saw Bill Condon's name in the opening credits I knew I was in for a treat. He and McKellen collaborate so well.

[harrie]

It was a bit of a downer, not as much as I thought when Roger appeared to have died, but still kind of melancholy, even though Holmes had made peace with it at the end.

 

I agree it was melancholy, but Holmes was like 100 years old, so it fits - just my POV.  I thought the ending was a little bit pat - too neatly tied up in a bow for my taste.  

 

I interpreted the flick's outcome as Holmes recognizing that with Mrs. Kelmot, he had been overly intellectual in his view of the case and had failed to account for the human element, ie feelings.  His

leaving the house to Mrs. Munro

was an attempt to not repeat that error; which means that the ending would have had to be that way.   Just my opinion.     

[Yokosmom]

Finally saw this last night.  I actually liked the film more than the book, as it made things much clearer and also because, unlike the novel

Roger lives

. I don't remember the housekeeper being quite so hostile in the book.  The acting by McKellan was marvelous.  Agree that the kid who played Roger is very reminiscent of Thomas Sangster from Love, Actually. Holmes made me think of my grandfather, if only in the sense that he too lived into his early 90s, which meant that he was born when most vehicles in his part of the world were horse drawn carriages, but lived to see men walk on the moon.  Holmes is so tied to the Victorian/Edwardian era--it is disconcerting to think of him in the 1920s and 1930s, or, as in this film, the late 1940s.  Agree that the scene of real Holmes watching the movie Holmes was pretty amusing.

[beetnemesis]

Past night i watched this movie. This movie is very interesting. I love this movie. Interesting. I love this movie.

[Hanahope]

On 9/16/2015 at 11:03 AM, Yokosmom said:

Holmes is so tied to the Victorian/Edwardian era--it is disconcerting to think of him in the 1920s and 1930s, or, as in this film, the late 1940s.  Agree that the scene of real Holmes watching the movie Holmes was pretty amusing.

Just watched last night.  Agreed that it took me a bit to reconcile Holmes in the 1940s (at first I was thinking it was the 30s until the housekeeper mentioned "lights out, like the Blitz", then I realized it was even later than I thought).  I chuckled over Holmes saying that Watson wrote a fictional address that happened to be right across the street from his real address.

[DarkRaichu]

I just watched it and love this movie.  McKellan gave a great potrayal of Holmes in his 60s and in his 90s.  There was so much frailty in the 90s version, yet the 60s version exuded the familiar arrogance that I expected from Holmes.  The quiet acting choices were brilliant, especially when Holmes was sitting on the bench with Ann.  You could see in his eyes what he wanted to do at that moment (that were later explained verbally to the housekeeper).

The housekeeper was wonderfully acted, as expected from Linney

Roger was smart (but naive) and you could see why Holmes took a liking at him.

I liked the first fiction he ever written, although I wonder what really happened to the man.  (My take he was probably forced/blackmailed to do it instead of volunteered)

Lol at the tourists who visited Holmes' fictional address were mostly Americans