Enola Holmes Movie Review

 

Movie Name: Enola Holmes

Director: Harry Bradbeer

Genre: Mystery/Crime

Country: United Kingdom; United States

Language: English

This movie Enola Holmes was released on September 23, 2020 and was directed by the brilliant Harry Bradbeer. This movie is about a new detective Enola Holmes who is also the younger sister of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes. In this adventure filled film enola holmes set out in the search of her mother and in the way faces many different adventures.

She has many traits with her renowned brother Sherlock Holmes (Henry Cavill), including intelligence, awareness, and insight. Her mother (Helena Bonham Carter) gave her a fairly unorthodox upbringing, and like her outspoken mother, she challenges the social expectations of the day for women. When her mother vanishes on her sixteenth birthday, she utilizes every tool at her disposal to look for her mother, knowing everything from chess to jiu-jitsu to cracking codes. 

Enola's older brother, who is horrified by her out-of-control behavior and is unsure of what to do with her, becomes her guardian. He intends to enroll her at Miss Harrison's strict finishing school. Enola immediately departs because she has other plans. Along the journey, she encounters Viscount Tewkesbury, a young heir played by Louis Partridge. Enola ends up saving him from an unknown stranger who is trying to kill him. She is unaware that their lives seem to be intertwined and that he will be crucial to her efforts to track down her mother. 

The charming younger sister played by Millie Bobby Brown is the highlight of this effervescent retelling of the Sherlock Holmes tale. She keeps talking to the camera and provides a running commentary about her feelings and observations. In the hands of a less talented performer, it would have been grating, but Bobby Brown is so endearing that you don't mind her incessant chitchat with the audience. Henry Cavill, who plays Holmes in the movie, is dishonest, but Bobby Brown steals the show in their on-screen interactions, Or perhaps Cavill, being like a gentleman, let his younger coworker take off with the thunder. In any event, the focus of the movie is Enola rather than Sherlock. Despite all of her training, she lacks the same level of global knowledge as her brothers, and the movie serves as the genesis tale for the feisty lead. 

Along with her fascinating exploits, the movie also touches on women's rights and popular uprisings. 

The mother may face off with her somewhat conventional-minded sons in upcoming sequels as she is shown to be at the forefront of the women's emancipation movement. The historical elements are literally out of this world thanks to some excellent CGI. In the movie, Victorian London comes to life, giving the impression that the viewer has travelled back in time.

When watching the movie, it can be easy to overlook Millie Bobby Brown's young age. Future Hollywood stars should keep an eye out for her. Sherlock is forgotten as a result of her natural acting. His reputation as an impassive detective seems to lose some of its allure as you get more interested in learning about his more vivacious sister. 

Excellent start, indeed.