Title: Not true to the spirit of Conan Doyle
Product review: The problem with MURDER BY DECREE is simply this: That it is a product of a sensationalistic screenwriter who, while deeply influenced by a late 20th-century revulsion against the abuses of power, cooks up a plot way out of whack with the material that one finds in the original Conan Doyle. No more on this for fear of being a spoiler. I say sensationalistic because of the Hollywood emphasis on blood and gore and violence against women. Some of this is stomach-turning. Conan Doyle would have hated the film's lack of the decorum that his works observed. This really isn't for people who cherish Sherlock Holmes within the sensibility of the Edwardian era, which sidesteps the sickening in its thrill-seeking.
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