Enola Holmes 3 – Movie Review

TL;DR – This is one of the films where the presentation almost makes up for the lack of narrative substance, almost.

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Post-Credit Scene – There is no post-credit scene.

Disclosure –I paid for the Netflix service that viewed this film.

Enola looks through a porthole.

Enola Holmes 3 Review Introduction

I think one of those rare lingering joys of this streaming era is when they go full tilt into an odd concept with full vigour. One of these rare examples is the Enola Holmes series. Every few years, Millie Bobby Brown gets to pop into some amusing action and talk to the camera like she was auditioning for The Office, and it has been a delight. I quite liked Enola Holmes and Enola Holmes 2, so let’s see if the third film sticks the landing.   

So, to set the scene, in a beautiful cathedral in the heart of Malta, there is a wedding incoming. One slight problem: the bride is having second thoughts, mainly about losing her identity. Or at least the name on which she had built everything. But as Enola (Millie Bobby Brown) makes her way through the countryside to Tewkesbury (Louis Partridge), she is intercepted by Dr Watson (Himesh Patel) to inform her that Sherlock (Henry Cavill) is missing, not just missing, but kidnapped.  

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Movie Review – Hampstead

TL;DR – Beautiful and charming, a fun look into that quirkiness that is classic Britannia, a great date night film

Score – 3 out of 5 stars

Hampstead. Image Credit: Entertainment One.

Review

What happens when your life is falling into a hole of others making, what happens when the world is against you and you just want to be left in peace, what happens when worlds collide, this is the story of Hampstead. Hampstead is part romantic comedy, part comment of the class divisions in Brittan, and part legal drama, but it is all heart.

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