“The future is up to us.”
It’s an apt metaphor for what the film could mean for the mythic detective.
Things get complicated when Enola meets fellow runaway Lord Tewksbury (a winning Louis Partridge).
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Brown is cheeky and spritely in the role.
As an actress, she has a self-possessed quality that grounds the performance.
Cavill is perhaps an odd choice to play the eccentric, occasionally even obsequious and hubristic Holmes.
The central mystery itself is perfunctory, and ingenious revelations are in short supply compared to most Holmes stories.
