Ok, so this is a new take on Sherlock Holmes. Enola Holmes is the brat little sister of the great Sherlock Holmes (Henry Cavill) and the eldest brother Mycroft Holmes.

Murder, mystery, you know the story, right?

Well, this time around the mystery isn't anything as exciting. There are a few mysteries in one in this story, two of them present themselves in the opening 15 minutes of the movie, the last comes much later along.

The problem is, the mysteries are pretty tame by Sherlock standards. Finding out the mysteries with the film, feels incredibly stretched, as too many times through this movie, we see flashbacks that just add nothing to the story or mystery in clues. You don't try and predict the mystery as the story progresses, you just sit quietly expecting a grand reveal at the end, but it never comes. There are plenty of feminist, woke parts to this movie. An all womens self defence class run by a black woman, above a tea shop? Should have been left on the cuttin room floor, as that only served as a minor clue source that took up too much time.

Between 4 of us adults watching this film, we struggled to maintain focus on the film, the mystery to it all, fairly predictable. So there is no grand reveal, and neither is there a point to the main mystery, as apparently it wasn't a bread crumb trail left to follow (despite it clearly being so) as there was nothing missing, it was just past off as a normal the "twist" to the end.

The other storylines being sewn up are VERY predictable, but relate to characters that aren't even apart of the film as characters, so its like "oh the maid did it" even though she had one scene in the entire film where she didn't even speak. So weak!

Enola is funny at times, but mostly pretty annoying. She breaks the 4th wall, talking to the audience at times, but it comes across as trying to be too clever, where you're left thinking "why can't some of that humour and sense of reality be put into the actual script and dialogue of the characters?" She's both a super strong fighter, and a coward running away from trouble she could have previously handled. Sherlock has barely a part in this movie, Henry Cavill making zero impact in this, so if you're a fan, you'll be yearning for more. The main Bad Guy? Well, he's sadly no mystery either as apparent early on through the movie. The movie tends to take a dump regularly on men, with female characters constantly referring to men as useless. Part of the story seems to almost justify murder to push an agenda of womens rights. It didn't feel right towards the end of the movie the message being put out, seems to be its ok to hate on men, and hurt people to push your agenda when its feminism leading the kill.

And my god, this movie is boring! Was easily an hour too long at 2 hours, where this could have easily been a Christmas 1 hour special wrapped up very neatly, if it had brung in the characters played by stars to make it shine more. They had nothing to add to this movie.