Before anyone attacks me for not being feminist or caring too much about historical accuracy: couldn't care less about those themes in the film. Rather, more that the actors really don't care about their characters (except maybe Brown but she's not convincing in her role), the multiple plotlines they come up with are dull, factors of the plot are never really explained so you don't know if you should feel emotionally invested or not, and the film itself seems to try drag you into an intriguing mystery when all it has is a boring little puzzle with an even more boring and disappointing conclusion.

There was so much this movie could do but didn't, or couldn't for whatever reason. The editing is bad (particularly the continuity stuff which is thrown around willy nilly), the 4th wall breaks feel like lazy ways of throwing in exposition and honestly get quite irritating, and overall it just wasn't that interesting. The concept of the Holmes sister can be so widely played with, but sticking her into a trope of "trying to be herself but also trying to be like Sherlock" is predictable and just doesn't really work. This character could be so many things but it truly felt like watching a watered down Sherlock mystery you would find in something like Sherlock Gnomes, i.e for children. Just a bit disappointing overall.