Check Inn to Christmas

Check Inn to Christmas was a cute title for a movie! Right?! The movie just felt overdone, same old movie just different title. Rachel Boston is adorable in almost everything she is in! I just did not feel the connection or chemistry with Wes Brown, a little forced. It kind of felt a little boring to me! It did not draw me in at all, nothing really to hold my interest.

6/10 - average family feud Hallmark channel feature makes for a worthwhile hour and a half

It seems like the writers for this movie took a whole bunch of previous scripts and pulled out all the themes and put them into this one. Some of them are: save-the-family-inn, I'm-up-for-promotion-in-far-away=city, family-feud-keeps-us-apart, and traditional-town-Christmas-celebration, and small-town-values-beats-big-corporation. What was slightly unusual about this movie was combining the family feud with save-the-inns so that it was two inns to save instead of one.

The romance between Ryan and Julia takes a distant back seat to the family competition and business threat. As a result, it was a struggle for the leads to demonstrate chemistry together. Their relationship was more like peacemakers than romantic partners. I think the actors felt this and it showed a little in their performances. I say this with some disappointment because I am a huge fan of Rachel Boston.

I think the ending was pretty obvious and as usual for Hallmark, it tied up to many lose ends too neatly.

I like the leads together Rachel and Wes smile and act all lovey dovey. A lawyer and an MBA from rival inn keeping families join forces to outbid a big resort threatening their family inns. The solution to their troubles uses both their skills. If not for these likeable stars there might not that much to recommend this movie.

Pretty weak for a Rachel Boston movie, but rarely do I rate any Hallmark movie less than 5. The story line was so thin, the whole cast, but especially the two leads, seemed to be more consumed with explaining the movie and pushing it ahead, rather than actually talking like real people do. Not much in the way of chemistry among anyone; look for just about any other movie she or he have been in and it's a good bet it will be better than this.