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AFRENZIED Sherlock Holmes opens his door a crack and peers out at Dr. Watson with sharp, glittering eyes. Years of heavy cocaine consumption have finally taken their toll; Holmes is paranoid, obsessed with the belief that his arch-enemy Moriarty is after him. The Seven Percent Solution, the most recent in a flood of Sherlock Holmes films released in the last few years, depicts a Holmes who still has all of his marvellously keen powers of perception but who has lost his grasp on reality. The detective master-mind who embodies the power of rationality, who penetrates the most obscure...
...concerned colleague and friend Dr. Watson decides Holmes must be cured of his addiction. Using Moriarty as bait, he lures Holmes to the house of a Viennese doctor who has become notable through his success in curing patients of drug addiction. There, Sherlock Holmes and his historical contemporary Sigmund Freud, the world's two greatest investigative minds, join forces to unravel a mystery. While undergoing treatment for his addiction, Holmes pursues the case of Freud's beautiful ex-patient Lola Devereaux (who has been abducted). Freud, meanwhile, seeks to explain the enigma of Sherlock Holmes himself...
...titanic power of evil. Alan Arkin portrays a surprisingly endearing and benign Sigmund Freud with none of the brooding, neurotic quality one might expect. Arkin's Freud is all kindliness and sanity. Vanessa Redgrave is an appropriately haunting and romantic Lola Devereaux and Nicol Williamson makes a fine Sherlock Holmes, the civilized British gentleman with a passion for fair play at all times. Even in his berserk moments, he remains the aristocratic eccentric. Though gifted with a passion for precision, he is still the ultimate amateur...
...fact, just such a device-or one mighty similar to it-was specially ordered by Holy Peters in The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax, a Sherlock Holmes short story...
...Seven-Per-Cent Solution puts one wistfully in mind of Billy Wilder's The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970), a lovely, melancholy evocation of the master sleuth. It was a ravishing movie, misunderstood and ignored on its first release. Now should be just the time for another look at it. The movie features portraits of Holmes (by Robert Stephens) and Watson (by Colin Blakely) that are virtually definitive and thoroughly captivating. Director Wilder showed respect for Conan Doyle, with out slavish devotion, and managed to make the two sleuths real men even as he dealt with them...