There they find dinosaur footprints… While they are still confused ( I guess not many dinosaurs lives in London), the real dino manifests in front of them. Holmes decides to investigate it, and both of them find themselves in the surprisingly empty central park for that time of day. They also have had a debate about recent events, when their look gazed upon newspaper headlines about Whitechapel murder. Holmes and Watson, still a bit shaken after events on the cliff, are having a breakfast. But moment before kid got consuming his merchandise, dinosaur shows up from nowhere and eats him, leaving prostitute in relatively good condition (apart of her age). So they go to dark alley in order to conclude the contract. Everything is done in complete discretion (they even got code names – John and Miss Pinchcock). when we can see underage guy “hiring” old, seasoned, washed up prostitute, probably hoping that she is gonna deflower him. Next scenes takes us to Whitechapel brothel. One of rare superior acting performances in this movie… Watson almost died while attempting to get down using a rope, in a scene for which purpose I fail to see. And Watson is still yelling at him! Anyway, all three of them are off to the cliffs near Channel border in order to try to reach a shipwreck. And all of that despite the fact that he is the only eyewitness!!! Poor sailor should feel lucky that he didn’t end up in mental institution! Or he would be, at least, if he hadn’t died right after telling his story. I suppose that legends about sea monsters having a gold in their stomach aren’t so false, aren’t they? Interesting thing is that Holmes is only one to believe sailor’s story, while Watson and Lestrade didn’t miss any opportunity to express their mistrust and opinions about sanity of the poor sob. There are at least 2 things wrong with this picture…Īfter hearing sailor’s heartbreaking story about what had happened on the sea, Holmes comes to deduction that lost cargo is nothing but a royal gold, which was on it’s way to Her Majesty treasury. Still, it seems to be enough for Watson, so they depart together in order to visit the sole survivor from the boat and meet there with Inspector Lestrade (played by William Huw). After a short looking at corpse, he gives gay and incoherent deduction about cause of death. Here, Holmes rushes around and talks like cockney male prostitute. But wait, there is more! He should be calm and focused, right? Maybe, but not in a book Goldenberg had read (perhaps Asylum have their own book version of Holmes I’ll check it up later). I know! He is rather short, despite the fact that Arthur Conan Doyle describes him as “rather over 6 feet tall”. Now Holmes (played by Ben Syder) enters the room. We notice that he is over 6 feet tall and looks like a butcher. I wonder if Holmes is gonna solve the mystery of Kraken? Anyway, scene shifts and now we are in autopsy room where Dr Watson (played by Gareth David-Lloyd) is doing his thing. It is some sort of big, black sea monster, that I believe it is meant to be Kraken. Scene is supposed to represent large ship and sea, but thanks to “vision” of director Rachel Goldenberg it is just an ordinary theater stage with fail green screen and blue nylon for a water effect. That made him remember when he saw such scene for the first time, so he calls his young nursemaid and decides to tell her about that story, which she is gonna record. In the opening scene, we see aged Dr Watson watching London in flames from his window. It looks like BBC documentary, with much less of a budget of course. The first thing that caught my eye is amateurish shaking cam (and believe me, that is one of rare things that can instantly piss me off). But let’s start from the beginning, shall we? In this Asylum’s rip-off of Sherlock Holmes, Jurassic Park and Ironman, Sherlock Holmes is actually trying to solve the mystery of Jack the Ripper.
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