New Sherlock Holmes movie...

[Dizaster]

"From Hell" was a good movie that had Johnie Depp as an investigator who was was an opium and Absinth addict... I thought that was the one you were talking about also as it does bring the royal family into it...
The royal family's doctor killed the prostitutes to protect some sort of secret.. Maybe a baby/affair, or to protect the secret that one of the royal family member had syphilis or something.. But in the movie the doctor wasn't just doing the work of the royal family, but he was a real sadistic bastard that took pleasure in carving up the victims... He would ride around with the coachman and lure the prostitutes in with Grapes (a demonstration of wealth in those days), and then would poison/knock them out with Laudanum (opium tincture)... And there was an uproar when the investigator went to the authorities declaring that the victim's attacks looked like they had been done by a trained surgeon.. Because specific body parts were precisely cut out.. But Authorities weren't happy with that because they believed only quality men could become doctors and no doctor could ever be evil.. Such crimes could only be committed by a butcher or begger, or a "jew"..
But that movie didn't have any Sherlock Holmes stuff in it, and I remember there was a movie called "ripper" that came out a little bit before that I think which I havn't see, so that might be the one you saw..

Anyway on the new one, I'm a fan or Downey Jr and his movies are usually pretty fun, but Jude Law drives me totally insane.. He comes across like a petualant child brat in almost every one of his movies... Maybe it's just that piece of turd of a movie "Alfie",,, worst movie ever and there are very few scenes in that movie where if you had a gun , you woudln't shoot the television or shoot yourself so you don't have to watch another second of it..

[Howlin Mad Missy]

factoid - jude law was in the original Granada series.

[VictorCharlie]

I remember watching "Young Sherlock Holmes" as a kid but thats the only one.