Review of Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943) by Tarun N — 01 Nov 2010
The propaganda facade is gone, but unfortunately this one's a bit limp. It's bereft of atmosphere, and even Rathbone seems a little bored. Bruce gets more to do though, which is OK. One particularly pointless sequence involves Holmes setting up a human chessboard, while using an analogous standard chess board to figure out a puzzle.
When he reaches the end of the puzzle, he comes to such a generic conclusion that the human chessboard had absolutely no purpose at all. Neither did the smaller chessboard, for that matter, but Neill gets to unsubtly plant clues as to who the bad guy is.
Not much of an excuse.
This review of Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943) was written by Tarun N on 01 Nov 2010.
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death has generally received positive reviews.
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