Henry Cavill came into the year hard at work filming his long-awaited Highlander reboot, which also features big stars like Russell Crowe and Dave Bautista. The movie is reportedly in the final stages of filming, expected to wrap any day now, but it’s still unclear when it will be released. For Cavill’s first project of the year, he reunited with director Guy Ritchie for In The Grey, the new action thriller co-starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Rosamund Pike from The Wheel of Time. The film opened with mediocre reviews on its way to an underwhelming performance at the box office, but it has since gone on to find at least a small sort of redemption on VOD platforms like Prime Video. It’s even getting a new physical media release later this month.
Cavill’s second film of the year quietly dropped on Netflix yesterday, and fans around the world can’t stop talking about Enola Holmes 3. Cavill plays Sherlock Holmes in the three-part Netflix detective saga, but it’s a more unorthodox take on the story, where the signature detective and his partner, Watson (played by Himesh Patel) take a backseat to Sherlock’s younger sister, Enola. Part of the reason the Enola Holmes movies have become such a sensation is due to the casting of Millie Bobby Brown as the titular character, who is famed for her role as Eleven in Stranger Things. Reviews for Enola Holmes 3 began pouring in yesterday around the same time that the film was released, and it’s officially the lowest-rated movie in the franchise with a 70% from critics on Rotten Tomatoes. This might not seem like a low score, but it is when compared to the first two films, which hold scores of 91% and 93%, respectively.
Collider’s David Caballero gave the film a 5/10 in his review for the film, praising the supporting characters but citing the predictable mystery as a massive drawback. ScreenRant’s Molly Freeman aligned with Caballero’s 5/10 review with the same score, but she admits that Millie Bobby Brown’s performance as Enola Holmes has “lost its charm.” She also said it’s a great case for why “Millie Bobby Brown shouldn’t lead her own franchise.” CBR’s Rachel Leishman reviewed the film at an 8/10 clip, saying that the film finally fixed its biggest problem in allowing Enola to take center stage and step out of the shadows of her counterparts.
Collider Exclusive · Action Hero Quiz Which Action Hero Would Be Your Perfect Partner? Rambo · James Bond · Indiana Jones · John McClane · Ethan Hunt
Five legends. Five completely different ways of getting out alive — with style, with muscle, with charm, with luck, or with a plan so intricate it probably shouldn’t work. Ten questions will reveal which action hero was built to have your back.
🎖️Rambo
🍸James Bond
🏺Indiana Jones
🔧John McClane
🎭Ethan Hunt
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You’re dropped into a dangerous situation with no warning. What do you need most from a partner? The first few seconds tell you everything about who belongs beside you.
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You have to get somewhere dangerous, fast. How do you travel? How you get there is half the mission.
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You’re pinned down and outnumbered. What does your ideal partner do? This is when you find out what someone is really made of.
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The mission is paused. You have one evening to decompress. What does your partner suggest? Who someone is when the pressure drops is who they actually are.
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How do you prefer your partner to communicate mid-mission? Good communication is the difference between partners and a liability.
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Your enemy is powerful, well-resourced, and has the upper hand. How should your partner approach them? The approach to the enemy defines the partnership.
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Things go badly wrong and you’re captured. What do you trust your partner to do? Who someone is when you need them most is the only thing that matters.
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What does your ideal partner bring to the table that you couldn’t replace? A great partner fills the gap you didn’t know you had.
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Every partnership has a cost. Which of these can you live with? No one comes without baggage. The question is whether you can carry it together.
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It’s the final moment. Everything is on the line. What do you need from your partner right now? The last question is the most honest one.
Your Partner Has Been Assigned Your Perfect Partner Is…
Your answers have pointed to one action hero above all others. This is the person built to have your back — for better or considerably, spectacularly worse.
Rambo
Your partner doesn’t talk much, doesn’t need to, and will have assessed every threat in your immediate environment before you’ve finished your first sentence. John Rambo is not a man of plans or politics — he is a force of nature shaped by survival, loyalty, and a capacity for endurance that goes beyond anything training can produce. He will not leave you behind. He has never left anyone behind who deserved to come home. What you get with Rambo is the most capable, most quietly ferocious partner imaginable — one who has been through things that would have broken anyone else, and who chose to keep going anyway. You’ll never need to ask if he has your back. You’ll just know.
James Bond
Your partner will arrive perfectly dressed, perfectly briefed, and with a cover story so convincing it’ll take you a moment to remember what’s actually true. James Bond is the most professionally dangerous person in any room he enters — and the most disarmingly charming, which is the point. He operates in a world of layers, where nothing is what it appears and every advantage is used without apology. You’ll never be bored. You’ll occasionally be furious. But when it matters — when the mission is genuinely on the line and the margin for error has collapsed to nothing — Bond is exactly the partner you want. He has survived things that have no business being survivable. He does it with style. That is not nothing.
Indiana Jones
Your partner will know the history, the language, the cultural context, and exactly why the thing everyone else is ignoring is actually the most important thing in the room. Indiana Jones is brilliant, reckless, and occasionally impossible — but he is also one of the most resourceful, most genuinely knowledgeable partners you could find yourself beside. He approaches every situation with a scholar’s eye and a brawler’s instinct, which is an unusual combination and a remarkably effective one. He hates snakes and gets personally attached to objects of historical significance, both of which will slow you down at least once. It doesn’t matter. What Indy brings is irreplaceable — and the adventures you’ll have together will be the kind people write books about. Assuming you survive them.
John McClane
Your partner was not supposed to be here. He does not have the right equipment, the right information, or anything approaching the right odds. He has a sarcastic remark and an absolute refusal to accept that the situation is as bad as it looks. John McClane is the greatest accidental hero in the history of action cinema — a man whose superpower is stubbornness, whose contingency plan is improvisation, and whose capacity to absorb punishment and keep moving would be alarming if it weren’t so useful. He will complain the entire time. He will make it significantly more chaotic than it needed to be. And he will absolutely, unconditionally, without question come through when it counts. Yippee-ki-yay.
Ethan Hunt
Your partner has already run seventeen scenarios by the time you’ve finished reading the briefing, and the plan he’s settled on involves at least two things that should be physically impossible. Ethan Hunt operates at the absolute edge of human capability — technically, physically, and intellectually — and he brings the same relentless precision to protecting his partners that he brings to dismantling organisations that shouldn’t exist. He is not easy to know and he will never fully tell you everything. But he will carry the weight of the mission so completely, so absolutely, that your job is simply to trust him — and the remarkable thing is that trusting him always turns out to be the right call. The mission will be impossible. He will complete it anyway.
What Is ‘Enola Holmes 3’ About?
Netflix’s official synopsis for the third and likely final Enola Holmes movie reads as follows: “The latest installment in the adventures of the young detective sees her tackling another mystery, this time on the island nation of Malta. As Enola heads to the altar to wed Lord Tewkesbury (Louis Partridge), she learns the distressing news that Sherlock (Henry Cavill) has been kidnapped. The gumshoe is immediately on the case, all while grappling with her complicated feelings around marriage.” While it’s yet to be confirmed, all signs point to Netflix closing the door on Enola Holmes after three movies. Brown does have a new project coming to Netflix soon, though, when she reunites with her Stranger Things co-star David Harbour for a new spy thriller from the writer of Adolescence.
Check out all three Enola Holmes movies on Netflix and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of Henry Cavill’s future projects.
