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Having the character of Sherlock Holmes regurgitate thr closed-minded political views of the writer insults the viewers.

The fact is quite a few intellectually astute people admire Ayn Rands ideas. One does not need to embrace the totality of a philosophers teaching to still acknowledge worthwhile elements within that philosophy. To dismiss her ideas as "intellectually bancrupt" only demonstrates the bankrupt intellect of the writer.

There should have been any number of filters that would catch such nonsense before it make it to the final cut. Lazy editing, direction and producing results in such errors.

It was obviously low-budget, and the writing and acting could have been better, but I still enjoyed and and would probably want to watch it again some day.

To be honest, I watched it because I read some very rude, not to mention cruel, complaints about the movie, and wanted to decide for myself.

It does bother me that the main actress is listed fourth down (beneath two white women) in the IMDB credits, which apparently is based on the order on the movie credits. The two white women didn't appear until the latter part of the move, and one had a tiny role, yet they received higher billing. What's the deal?

This is not a story of Sigmund Freud and C. S. Lewis. It's a fictional narrative of an American's (presumably agnostic) imaginary conversation between his fictional idea of Freud and Lewis. The author obvious knew very little about either Lewis or Freud, and promoted several unfounded myths about each, as fact.

While Matthew Goode is a fine actor, he played the role in a very un-British way (I'm assuming this is because both the writer and director are both American, and Goode was limited by this) and lacked the British, specifically oxbridge, calm dignity.

Hopkins, as well, seemed to lack the more harsh Austrian personality that would have made the dialogue much more believable.

In the end it's not a study of Freud or Lewis, but of the imagination of the author, which I found seriously lacking.