I don't hate this first of the modern "Sherlock Holmes" films at all. There is some good action and a few good cast members other than Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. The plot is the main weakness. It doesn't quite work and it isn't down to the film focusing on fighting the Nazis. The other Holmes films of this kind did a better job. In my opinion the best of the modern Holmes movies are as follows: "Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon," "The Spider Woman," "Sherlock Holmes Faces Death," "The Scarlet Claw," "The Pearl of Death," "Terror By Night" and "The Woman in Green." Evelyn Ankers is terrible in her part. She may be easy on the eye but an actress she is not. Thomas Gomez is good though.
