I have to admit, when the folks out at The Asylum sent me a copy of their Sherlock Holmes mockbuster, first I wondered how they ever got permission from the Doyle estate to do this in the first place.  I then looked at the cover and noticed the giant squid, T-rex and fire-breathing dragon attacking London Bridge and I realized that the Doyle estate probably didn’t give a rat’s ass anyway because if it weren’t for the names this would bear about as much resemblance to actual Sherlock Holmes as a Buick does to a banana.

But interestingly enough, this doesn’t make it BAD.

This time, Dr. Watson is telling the last story of Sherlock Holmes that he’ll ever tell, a complex narrative involving betrayal, treason, and a plot to kill the Queen with a bomb hidden inside a mechanical woman.

Many of The Asylum’s earlier efforts have proven somewhat, well, unpleasant, but this time around we’ve actually got something downright entertaining.  Sure, it’s a bit far fetched–okay, it’s a LOT far fetched–but it’s still got a genuine spark of entertainment to it.  In fact, this might be one of the The Asylum’s better movies.  There were some strange twists here, and even I was surprised by how coherent the whole actually turned out to be, despite the fact that the box art was promising sheer lunacy.

The Screenhead Ten Scale hands this one a six out of ten for being clever, but utterly mad.