Young Sherlock Holmes

Blithely ignoring the input of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, this lively adventure poses a high-concept question: what would Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson have been like if they had met as children? Set in London of the 1870s, the film begins as young Watson (Cox) enrolls in a new boarding school. In his dorm he meets the sullen and aristocratic Holmes (Rowe), a brilliant boy who is a bit peeved because he has not quite mastered playing the violin after only three days' practice. The boys soon become friends, and with Holmes' budding powers of deduction they investigate a mysterious string of murders that leads them into a scrape with the Kali cult (familiar to movie bu...