A Christmas Hero

It pays to read info. The fact that many id The across were former veterans make sense that it wasn't polished. Some of the acting was a little clunky, It was apparent lead, which plays Nick is a more experienced actor. It was sort of a take on A Christmas Carol or It's A Wonderful Life. The message was appreciated.

This is not one of those sappy Christmas movies...it's more about forgiving yourself and accepting help. It's kinda dark and painful. Some say the acting is bad, but they used veterans and real people. It was an insightful look into returning veterans dealing with their service and finding a life when home.

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.

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.