Angel Falls: A Novel Holiday

This is a Hallmark holiday romance between two high school rivals and Angel Falls natives, Hannah and Ryan. The two unite to try to sign a retired author to Hannah's family publishing business during the holidays.

There are actually angels in this holiday romance that can freeze time....just thought I would mention the elephant in the room!

Otherwise these are two very attractive people who have always seemed to like one another, who get a second chance to clear up misunderstandings and get to know one another...and guess what? They are both nice AND they like each other.

Christmas backdrop for this young attractive couple to fall in love. If that is your thing, this is for you...but otherwise a middle of the road romance with no surprises.

The blurb for this movie sounds MUCH better than what the writers managed to turn out.

I could never find any chemistry between the leads, and the Scrooge-like face and attitude of the "author to be helped" was just a turn off for most of the movie. And of course, the plot is really nothing more than a random collection of familiar cliches, prominent among them the male lead's decision between small-town happiness and big city success.

The female lead was never anything but irritating to me. She alternated between self-pity and forced perkiness, and I don't think the writers even meant to write a manic-depressive.

Yuck.

7/10 - while I felt as though the guardian angel subplot was completely unnecessary in this context, I throughly enjoyed this Hallmark flick

Movie 21 out of my 100 christmas movies before Christmas day challenge with 64 days to go.

I picked this randomly and didn't know anything about it before watching it.

It had a familiar face as the lead actress and I thought the two main stars worked well together.

The movie was nice and sweet. A little flat at times but overall it was okay.

Will I watch it again? Probably not.

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.