Review of Enola Holmes (2020) by Justsomerater — 24 Sep 2020

Honestly I just watched because of Millie Bobby Brown(great actress and did great) but I was disappointed at the feminist forced view that was shoved so many times. Not to mention some bad plot points in the end with the old knight steal armour holding the double barrell shotgun. This is the kind of movie writing that is just to please a certain audience without much work.

Even though the storyline wasn’t the best, the unrealism at a considerable number of times, repetitive exaggerated forced view points and all of that I enjoyed Millies acting none the less. Her skills are getting better and could have gone way better if she had been less time being rude and cold blooded and more in the why. We never saw much out of the thoughts of Enola about the bombs that definitely would kill a number of people. Its sad that it was rushed to the man bad woman good cliche movie. For me it was sadly forgettable and if not for the screenshots from Millie’ fans probably this movie won’t be remembered in a few weeks.

The one thing that made me believe this was a 5/10 to a 2/10 was definitely the breaking 4th wall so badly and in a awkward way. After the moments where I was getting tired of the polarisation of good and bad most of the times the writers decided to just pull again the breaking of the 4th wall in a badly written way just to take a good laugh without much effort into it. And what about the water torture scene where Enola faked being dead? Had me a good laugh until I realised they were serious that she could pull that off.

Kind of remids me of Rey from The force awakens but with a little small background. More of a Mary sue than anything.

And one more thing. Why wasn’t Henry more involved instead of being such a ignored character? Could have been much more. It had me there in the first act but at the second act I was more interested in anything but the movie.

Resuming: its another feminist movie with the same theme as all others without much diference, except it has Henry Calvin as a not so convincing Sherlock Holmes and Millie bobby brown with her gold but strick performance per say.