Review: Enola Holmes.

Created By: Based on the stories written by Nancy Springer

Starring: Millie Bobbie Brown, Henry Cavill, Sam Clafin and Louis Partridge.

Streaming: Netflix

I Would Say: 1.5/5

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Okay starting strong I didn't have high hopes for this film, I saw the trailer and thought it was a classic example of fast-paced and quick to draw you in, show you all the good bits and then leave you with confusion for the rest of the film, But I thought I'd give it a chance just to see, but for me I was right.

The new telling of the other Holmes Sibling was something that I was interested to see, I've loved all the other tv and movie adaptations so far and thought that this would, of course, have a similar angle, I assumed there would be a big push on female empowerment throughout the storyline which is something we all love to see now don't we, and I loved how such topics were done in such a way it would easily target a younger audience, but then as the film, it's progressed I wasn't sure whether it did hit the younger audience or not. Was this a film for teens, young adults or families? If you were to break the film down then the fun of the action and the young lead of Millie Bobbie Brown would, of course, be the selling point for the younger audiences, but then the story itself lacks all read depth at all for the older viewers, the storyline was all over the place from assassins to gun powder polts to runaways and unlovable families. Like most things that include Sherlock Holmes and their iconic family name, I was hoping that there might be a big AH HA! moment, in the end, to tie all my questioned together, but instead, I ended up becoming more confused, having more answers and wondering why I sat through and watched this all in the first place.

From the outside this film felt like it could have been something good, it could have been fun and something to draw in young teens or even adults with a fun new side of the Holmes' stories, but instead, it felt very much like a casting of okay actors, Helena Bonham Carter, big actions and deep quotes thrown in to make something that for me was very disappointing as an outcome. I'll choose to look past the random casting of Henry Cavill and Sam Clafin in roles which could have been played by literally anyone else and break it down a little more.

For a film which should have done justice to apparently celebrated books, it failed in most aspects. It didn't have the speed that I had hoped it would have come from the impact of the trailer, it slowly trudged along with what felt like hope in moving but never really got there, I could see that they were trying to make a message with Enola Holmes; a new character who was here to inspire and connect to but they missed the mark ever so slightly each time, the moments didn't land and were fastly overshadowed but the sad fact that she didn't really seem that loved by anyone very much. I could see what they were trying to achieve but something always felt a little confused, I found myself very much not understanding certain sections of the film, not through confusing Sherlock style plots or mysteries but more so the sudden jump into conclusions and idea which randomly popped up throughout.

I'm not disappointed as I didn't expect a lot from this title at the start but I do think they were only slightly off on certain elements which good have been good if landed.

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