starring Millie Bobby Brown, Henry Cavill, Sam Claflin, Helena Bonham Carter, Louis Partridge
directed by Harry Bradbeer
123 minutes
Sixteen-year-old Enola Holmes (Millie Bobby Brown), younger sister to Mycroft (Sam Claflin) and Sherlock Holmes (Henry Cavill), sets out on a quest to find her mother, Eudoria Holmes (Helena Bonham Carter), who has mysteriously vanished. Her eldest brother Mycroft, has plans to put her in a girl's boarding school and marry her off. Enola rejects this course of action and escapes to London to search for her mother.
Enola runs into Tewkesbury (Louis Partridge), a young nobleman on the train to London. He is on the run from a man who is trying to kill him. They part ways, at her insistence, after she helps him to escape a couple more attempts on his life.
Enola finds a place to stay in London and starts to search for her mother. She meets a woman who knows her mother but won't tell her where to find her. Enola uses some of what she knows about her mother to piece some bits of information together. The clues lead her to a warehouse where she finds things that make her question how well she really knows her mother.
Enola reconsiders her opinion about Tewkesbury and seeks him out. She decides that she must help him figure out who is out to kill him and prevent it from becoming a reality.
Mycroft and Sherlock eventually catch up to Enola. She is forced, for a time to enroll in a finishing school, but she escapes from that too as her primary focus has become protecting Tewkesbury.
Thoughts
Henry Cavill is fine in terms of his acting ability but he doesn't look the part of Sherlock Holmes.
Enola talks to the camera on a fairly regular basis. I don't have a problem with this choice.
This was fun and very episodic. I don't think I love it but I'm glad that I've seen it. I'm definitely not the target audience for a movie like this.
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