The eternal question

“Who is the best Sherlock Holmes?” — a question that probably appeared after the second film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s books. Discussions on this matter arise in the comments under any video or post related to any of the 200 adaptations of a man who never lived, but will never die. So why return to this hackneyed topic again? How does my article differ from hundreds of exactly the same ones? The answer is simple. Almost everyone who evaluated the film adaptations criticized them with prejudice. Patriots their own, others theirs, the older generation grew up on the Soviet, the younger generation on modern adaptation. Firstly, in terms of nationality here, as they say, it’s not yours, not ours — I’m Armenian. and secondly, being a teenager myself, I watched 3 film adaptations almost in a row. I didn’t grow up with any of them. Of course, I’m also a human being, I like some things and don’t like others. But here I will try to objectively consider the 3 most famous and popular film adaptations that I chose and watched specifically for this article: “The adventures of Sherlock Holmes” (1984-1994) with Jeremy Brett and David Burke, and later Edward Harwick, who replaced him (from now on we will call her “Granada”), “The adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson” with Vasily Livanov and Vitaly Solomin (Soviet) and “Sherlock” with Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman (bbc). I know, now they will say: “Why hasn’t the author watched Guy Ritchie’s film yet or just”. I answer: I watched Guy Ritchie’s film in fragments, but they were enough for me to understand that it’s just an action movie with elements of a detective story and all that it has in common with the original are the names of the characters. All. Take other names and you’ll get an excellent action movie (though… I don’t really like them either way… but that’s my problem)). I will say right away that I will not agree with what Arthur Conan Doyle wrote. I will only consider how it looks on the screen. I will do this according to the following criteria: 1. Background: Mrs. Hudson, Mary Watson, Inspector Lestrade, Mycroft Holmes, Irene Adler and Sir Henry Baskerville. 1 point will be awarded for each hero. 2. Riddles. The detective line is assessed in general. 3. Visualisation: city, scenery, effects and overall picture. 4. Music. 5. Antagonists. In particular Moriarty and Milverton. each is assessed separately. 6. Dr. John Watson (or Watson, write in the comments which is better). 7. Sherlock Holmes. All criteria except 1 point are assessed on a scale of 0-2. The rules are simple — whoever has the most points wins.