What this film has done to Holmes is a crime! (Or is it?)

Haunted lately by an eerie, ripping noise? That's the sound of Sherlock Holmes purists rending their garments at the prospect of Guy Ritchie's $80 million extravaganza, Sherlock Holmes, which stars Robert Downey Jr. as the inimitable master detective, Jude Law as a surprisingly edgy Dr. John Watson - and Rachel McAdams as a seductive Irene Adler.