Enola Holmes 2 is a period mystery, a sequel to the 2020 movie, about Sherlock Holmes's niece Enola(Millie Bobby Brown). After the events of the first installment she's gone out on her own to open a detective agency. Unfortunately being a young woman she finds it difficult to engage clients until a little match girl with a missing sister sets her on the hunt to a bigger conspiracy than she bargained for!
Like in it's predecessor- Brown is charming as ever but lacks depth, Henry Cavill as Sherlock is miscast, Helena Bonham Carter is great but functions barely more than a cameo. The new heavy is David Thewlis as Grail who is wonderful but there's just not a lot for the mostly talented cast to dig in to.
Decent production design, with the slickness of a healthy budget, don't do much to belay the general apathy that's conveyed. The script(deviating in this installment from the YA source material) is overly convoluted, the action sequences too sparse, the red herrings too plentiful, the characters underdeveloped, the moralizing immature bordering on trite. It's not terrible but it is one of Netflix's just-watchable-enough-not-to-turn-off type of features that seem to be their unfortunate stock-in-trade at this point.
Meh.
Currently streaming on Netflix.
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