After a solid opening week on Netflix, the streamer’s latest franchise feature seems to be plummeting on the viewership charts. Netflix remains the only streaming platform that is transparent about viewership, which it measures using its own metrics. While this data makes for interesting analysis, it can also make a film or show’s performance abundantly clear to the public. And Enola Holmes 3, the third installment in the streaming platform’s young-adult franchise, is certainly not doing as well as anybody involved in it would have liked. The movie brings back Millie Bobby Brown — arguably the biggest homegrown star on Netflix — as the titular heroine. She is joined in the movie by Henry Cavill, who returns as Enola’s illustrious older brother, Sherlock Holmes.
The first and second films, Enola Holmes and Enola Holmes 2, were both directed by Harry Bradbeer. They were released in 2020 and 2022, receiving warm reviews from critics and audiences. Along with the Extraction movies headlined by Chris Hemsworth, the Enola Holmes series seemed to be the best franchise play devised by Netflix. The third movie was written by returning scribe Jack Thorne, but it was directed by Philip Barantini, who broke out last year with the widely acclaimed limited series Adolescence. However, the creative change-up didn’t translate into better reviews.
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Collider Exclusive · Action Hero Quiz Which Action Hero Would Be Your Perfect Partner? Rambo · James Bond · Indiana Jones · John McClane · Ethan Hunt
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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
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🎭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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Here’s Where ‘Enola Holmes 3’ Stands in Terms of Viewership
Enola Holmes 3 holds a 66% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, where the consensus reads, “Despite a muddled story and diminished spark, Enola Holmes 3 succeeds thanks to Millie Bobby Brown’s winning performance and some lively action.” By comparison, the first and second films in the series are both “Certified Fresh” with 91% and 93% scores on the aggregator website. Enola Holmes 3 amassed 20 million views in its first week, per Netflix. But while most major movies witness an uptick in viewership in their sophomore frames, Enola Holmes 3 dropped to 12 million views. In its third week, this figure fell to 4.8 million views, which puts the movie’s total viewership at around 37 million views in three weeks. Netflix counts views for the first 90 days of a film or show’s release, which has resulted in four movies this year — War Machine, The Rip, Apex, and Thrash — crossing the 100 million views milestone. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
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