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The 15 Best Dr. Watsons, Ranked
Sherlock Holmes is one of the most adapted characters in the history of literature, but what of his trusty Dr. Watson?
A three-hour anthology film of Holmes self-critique while dancing around admitting his homosexuality is the type of audacious pitch for a road-show picture that’s destined to be bungled by risk-averse execs, and the released version does Wilder’s imagination no favors. As Holmes, Robert Stephens has fun purposefully winding up his less witty peers and shares good chemistry with Christopher Lee’s Mycroft — but the insisted light-comedy tone leaves Colin Blakely’s Watson with nothing to do but react incredulously and pantomime astonishment. One of the major charms of Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes films is that, despite the silliness of the Victorian-era martial arts and boyish bickering, there’s a dramatic baseline to Robert Downey Jr.’s and Jude Law’s performances — a buddy-cop dynamic where one seems genuinely unhinged and the other cares deeply and sensitively.
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