7/10
Misunderstanding is an understatement
23 December 2022
6.7 stars.

Not good, not bad, middle of the road. If you are out of good movies to watch today and you have a few to choose from, and you're sorta bored, pick this.

I enjoy Jen Lilley and Carlo Marks together, but there is lack of enthusiasm on her part, and he smiles a lot and I'm not sure why. It's as if he is hiding something funny, or a punchline but never tells us what it is. She is very pretty, and likable however her wardrobe is strange and unflattering. I don't know why they had her wearing ugly sweaters and outfits throughout and then the last 15 minutes she looked really great. It's as if the writer intended that her emotional transformation was directly linked to her wardrobe.

At the end when there is a major misunderstanding, it was awkward and unrealistic. First we have her decade long misunderstanding, which is an "understatement" and his own personal problems which were never explored. We don't really know anything about what motivates him. Does she motivate him? You coulda fooled me. Why are people so untrusting and so untrustworthy even after basically pinky swearing that they will not be so?

There is so much melodrama, and loss in these Hallmark films, it's so depressing sometimes. Why is there so much death, but without actual violence or gore? In other words sometimes it might be better for the audience to experience actual violence which is more realistic than everyone's closest relatives always being dead. Not everyone loses a parent or sibling before the age of 35. In fact, I bet it's actually quite uncommon in America.

Hallmark STOP killing off close family, friends, and loved ones. It's too depressing, we need happiness sometimes.

Hallmark STOP interrupting the kiss. This time it was distasteful and dumb. The director has to make a judgement call, and this was poorly executed.

But the sets were wonderful and the music, and all that jazz. Just get the story to be more smoothly produced into a watchable thing.

I might watch this in 10 years. Actually, probably not, because in 10 years there will be at least another 50 good Hallmark Christmas movies, and so this one will never be... Goodbye 'Angel Falls: A Novel Holiday'. I won't miss you.
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