
Sherlock Holmes (Nicholas Rowe) and John Watson (Alan Cox) meet as boys in an English Boarding school. Holmes is known for his deductive ability even as a youth, amazing his classmates with his abilities. When they discover a plot to murder a series of British business men by an Egyptian cult, they move to stop it.... (Full plot summary below)
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Sherlock Holmes (Nicholas Rowe) and John Watson (Alan Cox) meet as boys in an English Boarding school. Holmes is known for his deductive ability even as a youth, amazing his classmates with his abilities. When they discover a plot to murder a series of British business men by an Egyptian cult, they move to stop it.
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| Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenThe more one knows about Holmes lore, the more the film's foreshadowings of future cases will be evident. Set in a boys boarding school, the film's imaginings about the life of the young detective are quite entertaining. |
| The New York TimesVincent CanbyNot only the best movie to feature an Egyptian blowgun in several years, but also one of the few really stylish and entertaining American movies of 1985. |
| Flick FilosopherMaryAnn JohansonThis is the origin story for the world's first consulting detective that Conan Doyle was never considerate enough to write for us... |
| Filmcritic.comChristopher Nulldefinitely worth a better reception than it's received over the years. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe elaborate special effects also seem a little out of place in a Sherlock Holmes movie, although I'm willing to forgive them because they were fun. |
| Slant MagazineJoshua VasquezThere is something about Holmes's elegant, haunting, and whisperingly melancholic distance, his analytical remove from the world, that inspires a desire for glimpses of the baroque corridors of labyrinthine interiors. |
| Washington PostRita KempleyThe production is first-rate in all technical ways imaginable, but the villain that Holmes and Watson chase is not worth their intellect or time or ours. |
| Washington PostPaul AttanasioYoung Sherlock Holmes is the latest product off the Spielberg assembly line (he's the executive producer) and bears its machine-marks. For all that, though, it's a perfectly agreeable family entertainment, a craftsmanlike fantasia on Conan Doyle. |
| IGNR.L. ShafferBe sure to watch the film all the way through the end credits for a clever post-credit cookie (a rarity for this era). |
| The Associated PressBob ThomasThe young cast, which resembles a collection of Gerald Scarfe illustrations, acquits itself reasonably well, but is too ordinary to be heroic. And, once action is introduced into the mix, Barry Levinson's direction falters. |