The latest film version of Sherlock Holmes; by Guy Ritchie, is only the latest in a long series of adaptations of the character from the stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.  This film is full of action and violence, much like other films by Richie, but the characters of Holmes and Watson are much closer to the way Doyle wrote them than they have appeared in other films.  If you like this movie, try out some of the original Sherlock Holmes stories.