Originally Posted By: Bib4Tuna

Mr. Holmes (2015)

Ian McKellen plays a 93 year old Sherlock Holmes, retired to an small country house in Dover, and suffering the effects of senility, and possibly Alzheimer's. He is resolved to remember how his last case actually ended, and not how Watson wrote it, before he dies.

A little sad to see the Holmes character like that, and fighting to disassociate himself from the fictional character that Watson created in his stories.

Based on A Slight Trick of the Mind (2005)


I may see this as well. It's received rave reviews.

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”