1988 Directed by Thom Eberhardt
Sherlock Holmes is as dashing as ever, but with a little secret: Dr. Watson is the brains behind the operation. When Reginald Kincaid, the actor he has hired to play Holmes becomes insufferable, Watson fires him and tries to go out on his own, but finds that he has done too good a job building Holmes up in the public's mind.
Michael Caine Ben Kingsley Jeffrey Jones Lysette Anthony Nigel Davenport Peter Cook Gregor Fisher Paul Freeman George Sweeney John Tordoff Alexandra Spencer Matthew Sim Pat Keen Matthew Savage Tim Killick John Warner Harold Innocent Murray Ewan Stephen Tiller Michael O'Hagan Ivor Roberts Martin Pallot Caroline Milmoe Steven O'Donnell James Bree Clive Mantle Dave Cooper Andy Bradford Jennifer Guy Show All…
David Hildyard Wayne Artman Karola Storr Tom E. Dahl Mike Le Mare Tom Beckert Anthony Palk Lee Dragu James Dean Fisher
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Sherlock Holmes solves another case but it is revealed that he is actually a drunk, dim-witted actor named Reginald Kincaid. The real detective is the brilliant doctor Watson who after the unprecedented success of his Holmes short stories was forced to hire Kincaid to play the part of his literary hero for the public.
While the initial premise is inventive, and the starring duo's acting credentials are stellar, "Without a Clue" fails to reach its potential. The main problem is twofold. First, the comedy isn't funny enough (I chuckled a couple of times, at most) and the mystery isn't gripping enough. This results into a flaccid narrative that struggles to keep a viewer's attention despite the relatively short runtime. Combine…
Very funny spoof based on the characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Michael Caine and Ben Kingsley are both in top form as the brainless, womanizing, drunkard Holmes and the brilliant Watson, respectively.
Watson: "Holmes believes your father has been abducted."
Miss Giles: "Abducted?! By who?"
Holmes: "Abductors."
The U.K. is going back into Lockdown tonight for the 3RD TIME. Amazing, literally cannot go outside again... I'm beginning to look like a fucking vampire. Fantastic stuff, Boris - almost like we never should've come out of lockdown, isn't it?
Infinitely better when it's just Michael Caine and Ben Kingsley is sidelined (Caine is naturally funny and the slapstick stuff works well with him), but still a rather shoddy mess of a movie.
“I couldn’t detect manure if I stepped in it.”
Having Dr. Watson hire a drunken, has-been actor to pose as Sherlock Holmes to perpetuate the idea that his fictional creation is a real person is a clever idea. It is also cute. You can imagine that word popping up regularly when this idea was pitched to the American moneymen who financed the film. While it is indeed clever, you can tell that its writers come from sitcomland without consulting their credits. The humor is too broad, there is too much slapstick, and if someone congratulating this dimwitted Sherlock on his insight is funny once, imagine how funny it will be the second, third, etc. time. Still, Without a Clue has…
Release date: October 21, 1988
A comedy, a parody, but with the best actors.
Doctor Watson (Ben Kingsley) plays the real genius behind the crime-solving team, while Sherlock Holmes (Michael Caine) is, in reality, a drunken failure of a stage actor who is just playing the part. (The South London accent should have been the give-away.)
These thespians make the comedy believable and the humor comes to life. Simple slapstick works, even if Michael Caine needs to be attacked several times by the same dog in the film.
This is not high art, but it is smart comedy, and with Hollywood making so few comedies these days, this was an enjoyable film. Plus the movie score is by Henry Mancini.
Thom Eberhardt’s mystery crime comedy takes a farcical look at the Sherlock Holmes stories. Starring Michael Caine, Ben Kingsley, Jeffrey Jones, Nigel Davenport and Lysette Anthony.
A ludicrous take on the Sherlock Holmes stories, which suggests that the world's utmost investigator (Michael Caine) is just the imaginary creation of Dr Watson (Ben Kingsley), the proper mystery-solving prodigy.
However, the doctor has a delinquent, in that he desires an actor to emerge as Sherlock, and the best he can arrive is unexperienced ham Reginald Kincaid (also Caine). To round it all off, the ill-matched duo find themselves the casualties of the wicked Moriarty (Paul Freeman).
Michael Caine gives a good performance in his double role as Sherlock and Reginald. Sherlock is…
"I've got it! His real name is Arty-Morti!"
Uh... what? Gotta admit, I'm dumbfounded that this movie is as highly regarded as it is. Despite my love of Caine and Kingsley, I didn't have huge expectations of this movie but, even so, I was left massively disappointed by it.
I just think this is one of the limpest comedy scripts I've heard for a long time. I don't think I managed to raise a snigger over the entire run time. Every single gag is so thuddingly obvious and predictable - I could detect very little actual wit. I notice that writing duo Gary Murphy and Larry Strawther never got another script produced, and I can't say I'm surprised.
This is…
Michael Caine als Sherlock Holmes und Ben Kingsley als Dr. Watson in dieser überraschend gelungenen, humorvollen und sehr britischen Doyle-Interpretation GENIE & SCHNAUZE.
Der eigentlich »Clue« der Story ist, dass sich Dr. Watson Sherlock Holmes hier eigentlich nur ausgedacht hat! Holmes wird deshalb – so die Filmlogik – von einem glücklosen, aber äußerst unterhaltsamen Schauspieler (Michael Caine) dargestellt...
Die Komödie wird uns in den Kulissen des viktorianischen Londons mit schummrigen Häfen und den gediegenen Cottages des grünen Umlandes präsentiert, bevor unsere Helden auf ihren berühmt-berüchtigten Endgegner treffen... Grandiose Schauspieler, eine humorvolle Story – absolut sehenswert für Freunde des Stoffs!
This is exactly the kind of film I would have watched again and again when I was 6.
Then that trans joke happened which seemed so out of place and now I'm not sure about anything.
Why I re-watched this one? I felt like a Michael Caine movie.
What is this one about? Caine please Sherlock Holmes...who is actually an actor hired by Ben Kingsley...who plays Dr. Watson and is the real brains of the crime solving duo.
My thought on this one? This was actually the third time that I watched this movie. Finally...I can say I enjoyed the movie. The first time I was very disappointed in the movie....the second time was about 10 years later and I thought maybe I missed something the first time around....but nope I was disappointed again. So going into the third viewing my mindset was....this is not a good movie.
Well I have to admit....expecting the worst....I actually…
Michael Caine (pronounced "My Cocaine") plays Sherlock Holmes. Ben "Sexy Gandhi Beast" Kingsley plays Dr. Watson. But this isn't your standard Sherlock Holmes movie. The twist this time is that Sherlock isn't the genius detective that everyone thinks he is but is instead a frequently drunken actor that Watson hired to play Sherlock, who he created as the hero of stories to explain the crimes that he himself solved when no one seemed to believe that he was capable of solving the crimes.
"Without a Clue" has a clever premise and two great lead performances and, sometimes, that's all you need. The script is fairly clever, even though most of the comedic beats are pretty broad. Then again, "broad" doesn't…
