Title: A Waste of the Baskervilles
Product review: That Roxburgh is unsuited to portray Holmes is uncomfortably obvious. He adds none of Holmes's charming eccentricities, struggles to voice the part, and hardly looks it either, especially when next to Grant, who himself would've been better at it. Hart and Nettles are physically unsuited for their roles as well. Add to a poorly cast lot a script that goes too far afield from the novel. Holmes's use of cocaine is overstated here, and his relationship with Watson is made to be one of the barest tolerance, rather than the one of enduring friendship and admiration Doyle created. The scenes that didn't appear in the novel at all border on silliness, contributing nothing. I can't see this film being of any value to an avid Sherlockian. Grant's performance is its only commendable feature, earning it two stars instead of one.
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