Priključenija Šerloka Cholmsa i doktora Vatsona: Sokrovišča Agry

The forth movie is in two episodes. And despite forming a single unit, they differ widely in quality. Where the first part is full of atmosphere, earnestness, detective work and brilliant demonstrations of the deduction method in practice, the second part turns into a fragmented unit where half of it is taken up by an independent memories passage, which I must admit is good, (a very free adaptation of “A Scandal in Bohemia") followed by more relaxed courting and vexation with dear Watson and “the one who looks like a skinny Hana Zagorová when she was young". We get back to the case itself only at the very end, which means that the Holmes character here is shamefully slow. But no wonder, everything is solved already by the end of the first half and this part is here simply for the steam boat finale when they catch the criminals. But still, it’s a great forth movie, but only because of the five-star first half. (12.10.2008)

Nach der ein wenig schwächeren Episode Der Hund der Baskervilles (und Die Tigerjagd) ist dieser Film wieder eine angenehme Folge, welche die ganze Zeit auf der Freundschaft von Holmes und Watson, auf Humor und dem geheimnisvollen Plot baut. Besonders hat mir der Anfang vom zweiten Teil gefallen – eine verträumte Erinnerung an Irena Adler, was eigentlich eine Zusammenfassung von Ein Skandal in Böhmen war. Das Ende war rührend. (26.11.2016)