Without a Clue
Without a Clue
Directed by:
Thom EberhardtScreenplay:
Gary MurphyCinematography:
Alan HumeComposer:
Henry ManciniCast:
Michael Caine, Ben Kingsley, Jeffrey Jones, Lysette Anthony, Paul Freeman, Nigel Davenport, Peter Cook, Tim Killick, Gregor Fisher, Steven O'Donnell (more)VOD (1)
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Dr. John Watson (Kingsley) is secretly a crime-solving genius. But to protect his reputation as a physician, he hires bumbling, boozy, out-of-work actor Reginald Kincaid (Caine) to play the part of his fictional creation, Sherlock Holmes. The charade works until Watson mysteriously disappears, forcing the baffled, seriously inept Holmes to crack the biggest case of Watson's career on his own! (official distributor synopsis)
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A great comedy (the word "parody" is a bit off in this case) that could have been about ten minutes shorter and it would have gotten a fifth star. Caine and Kingsley are great as the central duo, I could watch their banter forever, and the idea of the film (Holmes is a drunk actor, Watson is the brain that Holmes probably doesn't have) will please everyone and will not offend any Doyle fan. I'll bet you that Guy Ritchie has watched Without a Clue. The resemblance between the scene on the docks, for example, and the "like old photographs" captions he used in the new Sherlock cannot be coincidental.
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