Robert Downey Jr.’s Sherlock Holmes: Faithful or Flawed?

The new Sherlock Holmes movie by director Guy Ritchie, in theatres on Decemeber 25, stars Robert Downey Jr. as a more action-oriented Sherlock Holmes than most people would expect. This article takes a look at Robert Downey Jr.'s Sherlock Holmes to see how it compares to the original character, as written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Two Sherlock Holmes experts assist in examining the habits, the sanity, the physique, the hat, and the pipe of the new Sherlock Holmes in comparison to the original.