Without a Clue

WITHOUT A CLUE Aspect ratio: 1.85:1Sound format: Dolby Stereo'Sherlock Holmes' turns out to be a ham actor (Michael Caine), hired by brilliant detective Dr. John Watson (Ben Kingsley) to play a character whose adventures are dramatized by Watson and published... Full review

The year was 1994, the advent of DVD was still a few years off. Laserdiscs were mainly used for films in classrooms, and the old video store down the street was STILL clutching to its 80's look of neon colors,... Full review

The premise is so clever. Sherlock Holmes never really existed. It was Dr. Watson (Ben Kingsley) who had been solving these cases all along, and simply hired bumbling actor Reginald Kincaid (Michael Caine) to play the fake Sherlock Holmes.To those... Full review

This si a great story idea speculating on the assumption that the real genius of the famous Conan Doyle detective duo is Dr Watson, the academic. The acclaimed Sherlock Holmes is just a publicity front, played by a hack actor,... Full review

Sherlock Holmes is the greatest detective to live. Unfortunately he is only a creation of Dr Watson who is the true great detective. Forced to give life to his creation Watson hires actor Reginald Kincaid to play the part in... Full review

Its a shame this film is not better appreciated.Its the finest parody of the Holmes Mythos ever set to screen. The stories are sent up without being malicious.Its an absurdists view with loads of honest laughs. Ben Kinsley shines as... Full review

I was a theater manager in 1988. I got this movie called 'Without a Clue', and that describes what I knew about it. I never saw a preview, I had no one sheet (poster) for it......Nothing! When I put the... Full review

This is one of Michael Caine's funniest performances and he and Ben Kingsley worked quite well together. The supporting cast is top-notch as well. Jeffry Jones as LeStrade is very good and Peter Cook has a fine supporting turn. As... Full review

The Sherlock Holmes stories are full of monumental blunders. Watson's famous war wound, which moves about from limb to limb, is among the least of them. Most of the blame for Arthur Conan Doyle's unparallelled clumsiness has fallen upon poor... Full review

It's nice to be able to put forward my brief view on an extremely under-rated piece of comedy.I have seen many reviews about this film which do not do it justice, and believe that the scriptwriting, and the comic acting... Full review

Without A Clue is a decent comedy - one that despite poking fun at the Holmes legend, is still quite reverent and respectful of it. The best part of the movie is the first half ... Full Review

Satire consists of poking fun at that which takes itself too seriously, and the Sherlock Holmes stories never make that mistake; they're in on the joke. But Caine and Kingsley are left too often with little to do except stand on either side of the screen and chew over their relationship as drunken actor and brilliant but anonymous detective. ... Full Review

The premise of Without a Clue is so simple, yet so brilliant, that it's hard to understand why this excellent film never received much attention at the box office when it was released. All in all, Without a Clue provides a great evening's entertainment for anyone who enjoys a good popcorn film, and one that doesn't give the viewer that "I've seen it and seen it" feeling. ... Full Review

You'll never hear me say a nasty thing about Robert Downey Jr., as I have a lot of respect for the man and a lot of appreciation for the films he's done ... but having said that, I cannot help... ... Full Article

The opening credits roll over a series of slo-mo vignettes of everyday shopping-mall life - mall walking, bullying, shoplifting - while the soundtrack offers The Band's version of "When I Paint My Masterpiece." ... Full Article

There are several basic things that a viewer should be able to expect from a Sherlock Holmes comedy, and "Without a Clue" fails to deliver any of them. ... Full Article