09-28-2020, 10:00 AM
Milly Bobby Brown stars as Sherlock Holmes's sister, Enola in this very woke tale of a missing British Lord and the people trying to kill him. Henry Cavell plays a not very convincing Sherlock Holmes.
Production wise it's well done, but it doesn't feel like a clever picture. Sherlock was always about deducing information from clues the rest of us didn't see. Except for one small scene, that part of the lore of Sherlock is missing. They just seem to be on an adventure and not a very smart one.
I like 11 better in this picture that I have in recent forays, maybe it's because she talks with her regular accent for a change? There is a lot fourth wall breaking at 11 talks to the audience about what she is doing. She is also very emancipated. She's been educated in an eclectic manner by her mother so she knows all sort of things including Tai Chi which she has quite mastered (Maybe it's Jiu-Jitsu?) It's all very precocious.
Sherlock himself is dumb. Superman doesn't really pull it off. but I guess his role is just to show how clever Enola is. But since she doesn't come across as remarkably clever, that makes him appear even less so. He does do a lot of Superman furrowed brow, though.
Helena Bonham Carter is in there as well playing the fey english woman as well. Her motivations are always murky and never clearly delineated.
I'll give it a mighty meh.
Production wise it's well done, but it doesn't feel like a clever picture. Sherlock was always about deducing information from clues the rest of us didn't see. Except for one small scene, that part of the lore of Sherlock is missing. They just seem to be on an adventure and not a very smart one.
I like 11 better in this picture that I have in recent forays, maybe it's because she talks with her regular accent for a change? There is a lot fourth wall breaking at 11 talks to the audience about what she is doing. She is also very emancipated. She's been educated in an eclectic manner by her mother so she knows all sort of things including Tai Chi which she has quite mastered (Maybe it's Jiu-Jitsu?) It's all very precocious.
Sherlock himself is dumb. Superman doesn't really pull it off. but I guess his role is just to show how clever Enola is. But since she doesn't come across as remarkably clever, that makes him appear even less so. He does do a lot of Superman furrowed brow, though.
Helena Bonham Carter is in there as well playing the fey english woman as well. Her motivations are always murky and never clearly delineated.
I'll give it a mighty meh.
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm