Enola Holmes wakes up on the morning of her 16th birthday and discovers that her mother has gone missing. She decides to do some detective work like her famous elder brother Sherlock, whom she brilliantly outwits. While on the quest to find her missing mother she comes across a mysterious young Lord and unravels a very dangerous conspiracy involving him.
POPCORN-O-METER= 7.8
When you see the names “Holmes” quite a number of movies come to mind, from the Robert Downey Jr. 2009 and 2011 movies to Benedict Cumberbatch’s BBC series but this particular one not only rewrites history but views it from a very different perspective. Not that of a brilliant but eccentric young man who enjoys the thrill but that of an equally smart and quite inquisitive teenage girl who not only wants answers but genuinely wants to help. I really enjoyed this movie, especially for a Netflix movie the story was quite well thought out.
The plot of this movie was quite solid and well written, I
liked how innovative it was because at this point making just another Sherlock
Holmes movie would be quite lazy. Also, I liked how they didn’t make Enola
Sherlock Holmes’ daughter, the sister angle makes a lot of sense unlike the
usual Father-Daughter path writers usually takes. This way a prequel with both
of them would be really feasible and appealing. Also, they did a great job of
making her solely the main character and most of the story is from her
perspective because a lot of times when there’s a female lead and there’s a
popular actor playing a familiar character like Sherlock Holmes it ends up
being somewhat of a shared movie. Finally, I like how the intellectual
distribution among the characters another annoying thing about Hollywood
writers and female leads is in a bid to should I say “empower women” they tend
to make the female leads smart and the males dumb as a rock but here Enola
beats her Elder brother to the punch and saves a young Lord but they don’t put
both those characters down to raise Bobbie Brown’s character up.
Having not seen Stranger Things (probably the only person in
the world) I really didn’t really know much about Millie Bobbie Brown’s acting,
but she does do much in this movie to suggest that there might just be much
truth to Hollywood craze around the young actress. When I saw that Henry Cavill
would be playing Sherlock Holmes I’ll be honest I had skepticism about seeing
this movie. I must admit I’m not his biggest fan, nevertheless he’s a good
actor no doubt. In this movie he plays a very cool and calm Sherlock
Holmes and maybe if this was the first time I was seeing him I definitely would
definitely be “pro-Cavill” he did sway me in that direction with his
performance though. Sam Claflin was exquisite in his role, probably the most
well played character in the movie. Burn Gorman played that silent assassin
that I’ve seen him play countless times but I’m never tired off, does the man
even age? Time and space would not permit me to talk about all of the cast but
the casting crew did a great job.
That pretty much
wraps up my take on this movie, I think it was one of the few current Netflix
originals that actually impressed me. It seems like they took their time with this one and hopefully they
continue like that with future movies because a lot of them seem a bit rushed
these days. I think it was a very good movie and I probably would give a second
watch later on. Also, if they are planning a sequel because it seems like they
might be judging from how the movie ended I would definitely be excited to see
that as well.
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