Helen McCrory as an American Psychologist
by Brian Lowry | Variety | October 20, 2005
Revisionist tinkering with the Sherlock Holmes mythology has provided great sport over the years, from Billy Wilder’s “The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes” to “The Seven-Percent Solution.” Somewhere in between falls this original story concocted for “Masterpiece Theater” — a second-rate Holmes mystery starring Rupert Everett that’s still good fun, though surely not as much as viewing one of those old Basil Rathbone editions.
This latest case has added a few touches for the “CSI” generation, involving a string of confounding and grisly murders that seem the work of a fetishistic lunatic, not one of the master criminals with which the sleuth matched wits in Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories.
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