Enola Holmes

Warning: Possible Spoilers (Depending on how weird you are about spoilers)

Enola Holmes was released onto Netflix on 23 September 2020 and it got a 6.7/10 on IMDB and a staggering 91% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The film is narrated by Enola (Millie Bobby Brown) while she explains her family as well as her mothers disappearance and tries to solve the mystery. Enola's mother, Eudoria (Helena Bonham Carter) is left as her only caring family member when her father dies and her two older brothers, Mycroft (Sam Claflin) and Sherlock (Henry Cavill) both move away to the city.

Eudoria and Enola are inseparable over the years until one day when her mother disappears without warning or explanation and her brothers are sent to care for her.

Mycroft is horrified at how his sister has been brought up and since she is his ward he is correct in enforcing that she must attend a finishing school. He doesn't believe that she has been properly schooled and can therefore not find herself a suitable husband to care for her.

Enola, rightfully, despises this idea as her mother has brought her up to be a free-thinking and independent young woman, so she devises a plan to run away from her brothers and find her mother on her own.

Throughout the movie Enola speaks directly to the audience which I thought added to some of the comedy but also didn't need to be done as much as it was.

As always, Carter and Cavill's acting was superb, not to mention the new found shining star that is Millie.

I quite liked the movie, however I think there should have been more background into the relationships between the characters but since that wasn't met perhaps we can hope for a sequel that will delve into that a bit more.

I also noticed that a lot of the new movies that are being made lately have been diving head first into a feminist point of view, this movie is no exception. I quite like the idea that women are standing up for themselves when needed but what I liked about this movie is that Enola wasn't completely independent and still needed some help from 'a stupid boy' every now and then.

All in all, this was a good movie and I liked that it focused on Enola instead of the classic Sherlock.

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