Perry Kate Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

MonsterPerfect Good idea lost in the noise

Breakinger A Brilliant Conflict

SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

Paul Evans An outing that seems hugely removed from anything that could have possibly been penned by Conan Doyle, the film sees Holmes and Watson accompany a handsome played by Leslie Vincent, who's heading to Algiers to replace his assassinated father on the throne.The film boasts a clever bit of deception, and some interesting concepts, the beginning is really intriguing and full of mystery. Sadly once the voyage begins it becomes a little silly, funny hats, mutual smugness and a world almost unimaginable pre globalisation.Rathbone and Bruce as excellent value as always, but some of the other performances are a little on the shaky side, no names.It doesn't boast the suspense and intrigue that most of the Universal movies have, but it's well worth watching. 6/10

utgard14 Sherlock Holmes plays bodyguard to a European prince in this tenth of the Universal Sherlock Holmes series (twelfth overall). It's often called the least of the bunch and it's easy enough to see why. Almost the entire movie takes place on board a ship at sea yet there is very little creative use made of such a claustrophobic setting. There's not much suspense to be had and the great detective does very little investigating. In fact, despite some interesting red herrings introduced early, the villains of the story are obvious and upfront from the time they first appear on screen. So there's not much in the way of mystery here, save for a twist reveal at the end that really wasn't surprising. Still, it's Rathbone and Bruce doing their thing and that's highly enjoyable to watch even in a lesser Holmes film. Nice support from Martin Kosleck, Rosalind Ivan, Rex Evans, and Marjorie Riordan. A lesser Holmes movie but still very watchable and likable for fans.

Spuzzlightyear Pretty awesome way to finish off (for me that is, I previously had watched the final two in the series earlier in the year (or maybe earlier than that loll) The Basil Rathbone / Nige Bruce Sherlock Holmes series. Holmes and Watson are on board a ship trying to protect a young head of a foreign country from being kidnapped or killed. They take a cruise ship to where they're supposed to go with a lot of suspicious characters. Who are they and why are they are on board? All of them are explained in due time. This is all terribly entertaining as the plot, although with some implausibilities, twists and turns to it's delightful (but again, somewhat implausible) surprise ending. One of the best!

lagudafuad Pursuit to Algiers is the 12th Basil Rathbone and Bruce Nigel Sherlock film, and it's based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's characters. The movie is noted to have taken some characters and elements from Conan Doyle's The Adventure of the Red Circle.The movie's plot is quite ingenious, as it takes you unawares in the way things just turn up, with Sherlock proving to be a mastermind genius from the way he disguised the King, to the way he got himself on the boat, after sending Dr. Watson ahead.Majority of the movie is shot in a boat setting, and the movie even ends on the boat, which gave way for us to see some nice cinematography and the plot shows a little of what many people think Sherlock is, a guy who is too smart for we the rest of the world. Before this was The Woman in Green (1945) and that was also directed by Roy William Neill, who actually did a better job here than he did in The Woman in Green. The screenplay was done by Leonard Lee, who did a good job making sure each time you spent watching this movie, anticipation is created as you are curious to see how Holmes is going to pull it off, and the final twist in the movie was just the icing on the cake of this masterpiece.The movie's plot starts with our duo planning a vacation to take a load off the unending cases that they seem to be swamped in, when some series of fortunate events start to happen on their way home, Sherlock was able to deduce from the series of events that he was been called for a meeting.After he had solved the events to deduce the address (which was basic elementary if I could say so myself) and time of the meeting, he attended it and he is giving a task which he took. The task was given to him by the prime minister of the fictional country of Rovinia, who begs Holmes to escort Prince Nikolas back to his country Rovinia. It turns out that his father has been assassinated, and Nikolas is the next in line to be king, but since he left the country at birth to be raised in England no one but the prime minister and a few knows what he looks like, and the assassinators of the father will stop at nothing to kill Prince Nikolas.The movie is a nice watch, it is one movie that you watch, and then you gather your friends around to watch with you and just telling them that there is something at the end that they can't guess what it is. It is a nice addition to anyone's shelf of movie collections. The ending joke of the movie had Sherlock telling Watson that no matter what, Watson should not take up a career as an actor as he is a bad actor, which is why sometimes he (Sherlock) has to keep things from him.www.lagsreviews.com