Review of Enola Holmes (2020) by Banishmon — 26 Sep 2020

Quirky empowered female overdone too much, takes too much on feminism.

A feminist clearly wrote the movies, using their own version of the patriarchy as the villian.

This is clearly an internal struggle, which clearly doesn't make sense as a Holmes story nor does it fit the characters that it uses to attract viewers.

Makes Enola Holmes essentially a superhuman who's looked down upon by her brothers.

Extraordinary large amount of exposition and uses it to skip over basically everything. 4th wall breaking is weirdly placed and stupid.

Both Sherlock and Mycroft seem out of character, neither of them are calculated or seem competent in any way, the movie portrays them as arrogant and they become whatever the situation requires of them. Despite being the most well known characters, the Holmes brothers are half-baked and useless. Almost all the attention is placed upon Enola, but they still don't manage to build her up in a way that would make sense.

In spite of what they want you to think, Enola Holmes isnt Sherlock Holmes.

The sheer amount of unnecessary scenes is astounding.

Mediocre pacing, most of it doesn't make sense in both a storytelling way and a logical way.

It has literally close to zero direction for most of the film, zero coherent things that the main character is supposed to be doing.