A Christmas Hero

This movie had the longest, most boring intro I have ever seen, never want to hear "God rest ye merry gentlemen" again.

Past the intro, the movie was slow to really get into the story and the music was too prominent.

This is not what I would call a Christmas film.

No one expects good acting in a Christmas movie, and even with that low bar, the acting was disappointing, flat and not genuine. The actor of the main character seemed like he had no desire to be in the film at all. The unsteady camerawork and awful lighting gave the film a feel like this was a teen's low-budget high school project using his classmates and teachers as the cast, and not a professional film. Don't watch this film if you get motion sickness from jumpy films. Better yet, don't watch this at all.

A Christmas carol / a wonderful life/ saving private ryan ... all great movies sewn together to make this messy low budget disaster... I appreciate our vets but they deserve better than this plane wreck!

This is mostly just someone's home made love letter to some airplane museum in their home town. They clearly just hired two people to be the main actors and the rest are the actual workers and guests. The main plot doesn't even come into play till about half way through, and the whole thing is shot on shaky cam because they have no tripods or steady cam.

It's essentially a long tourism ad for this museum nobody has ever heard of or will ever go to. The movie has a $0 budget but also no heart of effort behind it either. It barely qualifies as a movie and is honestly pretty insulting to veterans.

And it being Xmas has nothing to do with anything! You could have set this in literally any time of year and it would still be the same piece of unwatchable garbage it is now...

Started interestingly, and I could believe Welch as the repressed guy at the start, but I couldn't buy into his rages (I kept imagining the director offstage saying "Emote, darling, emote!). It was good as an advert for the air museum (which I googled while the movie was on), and if I'm ever back in Michigan (near Kalamazoo) I'll visit.