Softwing Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

Asad Almond A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Blake Rivera If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

Rainey Dawn This one is really fun - very interesting movie. Sherlock as has gotten Dr. Franz Tobel out of Switzerland and must keep him safe - for Tobel has a secret weapon against the Nazis. Moriarty has sided with the Nazis and wants to get his hands on the Tobel's weapon to sell to the Nazis for profit and status. It is up to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson to keep Tobel & his secret weapon safe from Moriarty and the Nazis.The mystery takes a few twists and turns that are unexpected. Great fun to watch Basil Rathbone in the many disguises of Sherlock Holmes and to see Lionel Atwill in a wickedly diabolical role once again.This one is definitely worth watching - it's just over an hour long and a fun hour it is.8.5/10

binapiraeus Just like the previous 'Sherlock Holmes' film produced by Universal, "Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon" serves exclusively the same goal: to promote the Allied propaganda against Nazi Germany. A righteous cause, of course, but worked out and presented in a VERY poor and dubious way: Holmes becomes an assistant of the British Secret Service, an expert of decoding secret messages - in order to save a mass destruction device a Swiss scientist has developed from falling into the Germans' hands and to get 'safely' to its destination, the British Airforce, for which it will mean 'a revolution for aerial bombardment'... Which means of course great damage to the enemy - but also the loss of tens of thousands innocent lives, not only in Germany, but also in other towns and cities all over Europe.And what is left of the original 'Holmes'? Not much, except for his arch-enemy Moriarty, who in this case of course is collaborating with the enemy - and even the great veteran actor Lionel Atwill looks pale in the role of the evil mastermind. Watson is depicted as a complete sap this time, and all the other characters are simply insignificant; neither is there any suspense or room for criminological deductions.Now, almost every hero of Hollywood's crime movie series was 'recruited' during the War to do his part for the Allies; but, for example, 'Charlie Chan', even while he was working for the Secret Service, always remained 'Charlie Chan'... While Sherlock Holmes as a 'war hero' at home is simply beyond recognition.

victorsunstar Tonight I am watching ( for genre ) Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon. 1943 colorized version. It stars "Razzle Backbone" as Sherlock Holmes and he rescues a supposed bomb sight expert professor from Austria and during the British test flight and use of his bomb sight in the bomber... They have him cranking a Bessler photo enlarger up and down with cuts to a view screen of the cross hairs of the sight on the bombing test target below....Guess that they was hard up for a bomb sight prop so someone ran down to the Universal studios photo lab and uh, borrowed an enlarger. This ranks right up there with plumes of smoke floating upwards from Buck Rogers loudly buzzing rocket ship... fun...

ametaphysicalshark As I've said before I am really not at all a fan of Sherlock Holmes espionage stories, not the one or two Arthur Conan Doyle stories in the genre nor the few wartime thrillers FOX made after acquiring the Sherlock Holmes franchise from Universal, before "Faces Death". Unlike "The Voice of Terror", the previous Rathbone/Bruce film, "Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon" is really very uninteresting and bland, and it's got a rather silly plot also. In addition, I didn't care for Holmes as a character here at all, he barely does anything interesting. In a series of quite excellent quality in general this stands out as a sub-par entry. Not awful, but not good either.