Enola Holmes 2 Review

The game is afoot (again), sequels can generally be not as good as the original film, not in this case there is only one word to say about this film and it was empowering.

The New Enola Holmes 2 which was directed by Henry Bradbeer and written by Jack Thorne, this film was charming yet the storyline that had more depth to it than the first film. It delved deeper into feminist views and women’s rights which was great to see more of. The three big reasons that this film stepped up even more than the first was the quality of the source material, the writers and the quality of the cast.

Who other than Millie Bobby Brown returns to play Enola Holmes still with her witty comments and vulnerability in her fourth wall breaking chats to the audience. There is no other person that can do it as effectively as her.

As the film begins Enola opens her own agency and follows in her brother footsteps the famous detective Sherlock (Henry Cavill) but as a female detective for hire it isn’t as easy as she might thought it to be.

A penniless matchstick girl offers a missing persons case of her sister Sarah Chapman which opens up to a larger mystery about an illness felling the young female workers at a match factory.

She gains help from her aristocratic love interest Tewkesbury (Louis Partridge) and crosses paths with her brother Sherlock (Henry Cavill), their mother (Helena Bonham Carter) and a crude police inspector (David Thewlis).

The combination of making a murder mystery and the underlining plot of the match girls stick strike which was led by Sarah Chapman and was the first ever industrial action taken by women for women. It improved their working conditions for ever. The writers use of this was cleverly done and thoroughly enjoyed it.

The flashbacks from the first film throughout the second was ingenious from the producers and editors.

People in my generation so 2000’s and younger would really benefit watching this film as I didn’t really have a film that had strong female leads. It shows that women have come so far even if the genre of the film is a young adult mystery.