Enola Holmes (2020) Movie Review

Summary

When Elona, Sherlock Holmes’s teenage sister, discovers that her mother is missing, she goes looking for her and becomes a super-investigator herself, outwitting her famous brother and unraveling a dangerous conspiracy around a mysterious young man.

Netflix, what a company. In the middle of the pandemic, it continues to bring great films, while other major international film studios have their hands in their hair to get their films relayed in cinemas. Netflix releases run like a train, despite the attack by Disney & Streamz / HBO, and Enola Holmes with Millie Bobby Brown is the second in this week’s list.

Okay, Enola Holmes is not going to win any prizes, that’s for sure, but it’s anything but bad. The coming-of-age story of Sherlock Holmes’s young sister is, above all, playful and adventurous and has much to do with the performance of Millie Bobby Brown from Stranger Things.

She is the central point in Enola Holmes with big stars such as Henry Cavill, Sam Claflin and Helena Bonham Carter who are looking at her to make her star in her lead role.

It shows once again the talent this 16-year-old has in the House. In addition, Enola Holmes is a conventional event with style, tone and cinematography which, by the way, shows many similarities to Sherlock Holmes cinema films with Robert Downey. Jr.in the lead.

Finally, Enola Holmes does not feel too long despite the movie duration of more than 2 hours. Once again the lightness of the film that does its work thanks to Fleabag & Killing Eve director Harry Bradbeer.

Final words

In short, with Enola Holmes, Netflix brings back that Friday night movie, which is somewhat surprising for such a cast. Again, top-notch work by Millie Bobby Brown.