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I really wanted to like this movie. It is clean, decent and unpretentious. The story line is sweet and the intentions are good. Unfortunately the action is diluted and pretty unsubstantial. What's worse, the script is often simplistic or awkward and the acting feel less than amateurish. The interactions of friends and families and, especially, the closing scene with the lead characters feel totally unnatural and unconvincing. More realistic lines and better acting could have made this an enjoyable production.

One does not usually expect much from a soap-operish Christmas movie other than kill some time and escape reality. This movie did not achieve even that. The plot is the usual boy girl meet and fall in love in a few days. We know that so there are no expectations, no surprises in that department.

On top of that, the acting is so bad that it cannot save Ana equally terribly written script. The lines are empty, filled with "really?", "do you think so?" "whys" asked in the most awkward situations. The delivery of the lines is free of feeling, free of meaning. Amateurs?

After writing my review I think the four stars I gave it are too generous.

Editing was bad, stilted dialogue; lighting off many places, not to mention acting varied to sometimes okay to horrible. Cute story but ran too slowly; some scenes last too long. 4 stars for good intentions and cute leads.

OMG!!!!

Can I say that this is by far, the stupidest movie I have ever watched? Firstly, the acting was so stiff and unnatural.

The story, or at least, the synopsis got my attention and my hopes up. I don't know these Lifetime or Hallmark actors.

I just know that year after year, I enjoy binging on Christmas movies and most of them are great and I ended up smiling ear to ear by the end of the story.

This one did not do that for me, not even a bit. That kiss that always happens at the end? Good grief!!! The writer/director has no clue what a love scene should look like. Are they celibate? With a nickname like Candy Cain, you'd think there's be more imagination but there was nothing.

It was just straight reading of their lines, or memorizing by rote, without real feeling, all the way through to the end.

Hated this one. Gave it a three only because I got sucked in by the synotpsis.

It's just SO BAD. I love a Cheesy Christmas movie so my tolerance for cringe is high, but oh my god this was painful. The acting is terrible. I think you could go in to any school and find the drama club would do a mikes better job. The script is just appalling. I know this is supposed to be light and christmassy, but it was all just so unbelievable I was actually getting annoyed with it. Even with a low budget I still can't believe it is so bad. The lead actor, I'm sorry but this really can't be your day job. The pointless long conversations- the weird communication between him and the server in the coffee shop- what is the point?!

I need to stop watching Candy Cain movies! This was even worse than the last one. Poor camerawork, poor acting (probably largely due to the poor script), poor sound, poor setting, poor wardrobe, tortuous soundtrack! There was nothing to redeem this movie. It wouldn't have been much worse if the cast had walked around holding microphones!

The ending was terrible. It felt like they just gave up and said "let's just go home". There was no chemistry between the leads and it felt awkward. Come to think of it all the interactions in the movie were awkward and unnatural. The "near death" scene was laugh out loud ridiculous.

It only gave it two stars because it was so bad it was funny, which I suppose is entertainment!

Deck The Heart (2021) -

I instantly felt that this film was like watching bad porn, or at least as it's shown in things that take the pee out of adult filming (I wouldn't know about porn obviously). I kept waiting for them to accidentally spill a drink on their shirt or for a plumber to walk in covered in grease (Honestly I don't watch the stuff).

But seriously, based on the first minute, the film stock quality and the poor acting, I just knew I wasn't going to like it. The filter made it seem as if they were going to pull away from a TV at any moment as a film within a film sort of thing. Like when the 'Friends' (1994 - 2004) are watching Joey (Matt LeBlanc) in a show he's done. That in itself was actually really distracting.

Even with the appearance of Robert Picardo as Larry Link, whom I have appreciated in many other roles, I just couldn't give a film this badly put together my time.

Maybe I missed a treat by the time it got to the end, but I seriously doubt it. Even the leading man (Joe Kurak) didn't have that certain something worth persevering with it for.

Unscored as Unfinished.

If it had a bigger budget, better writing, and people who could act. It's a cute (albeit typical) Christmas story, and if you're okay with independent films then you'll get past all that. The dialog and acting were awkward, and there wasn't really any chemistry between the lead characters. It wasn't bad enough that I turned it off though.

The lead actress was cute, but her lines were all stilted and quick. Not sure what kind of acting training she's had, but she needs to work on delivery.

I would have liked to see more of what she was decorating. It looked sparse, and no big reveal on the outside lights and decor at the end. Again, probably because of budget.

This was a sweet story with lovable characters. The only problem I had with it is that they kept mentioning a girl's bar mitsfa and a bar mitsfa is coming of age for a BOY. A bat mitsfa is a girl. Anyway it sounded like they said bar. That aside it is still a good movie.

Overall it is a cute story but the acting is stilted, the dialogue way to predictable and the snow keeps disappearing. One night several inches falls yet in the morning there isn't the slightest trace of snow. It's not a bad way to spend an hour or so but don't expect anything great.

Oh My Goodnrss... Inappropriate music for the location.

Way too much dead space where so many dialogie snippets could have been featured..

Sudden DEATH ENDING..no classy closure...

Storyline is great..

If you've ever seen the masterpiece that is the envy of the modern world, The Room by Tommy Wiseau... then boy howdy this is just one itsy bitsy step up from that. No tuxedos throwing a football in a ally, but you do get the blue light special. (Lame decorations) Take all the bad shots and acting and *boom*, reminded me of Birdemic. To put it another way, I cannot wait for Rifftrax to riff this one!

Best actor: Robert Picardo (however, I half expected him to walk up to the decorations girl and say "the I. O. A. Have been... concerned with your performance")

If you need background noise, this should be in the list somewhere, but I hope your doing dishes or laundry.

What a pathetic movie Dreadful acting dreadful director dreadful script The near death scene with the soap Suds snow was hilarious However the last 15 minutes was the icing on this dreadful movie The outside scrne eith the blue light angel scene was side splitting funny and the guy in the coffee shop oh my thst was cringeworthy The ending was truly laughable people srriving gor Christmas big scenes with the two leads so wooden Oh my what a waste of 2 hours.

If the script was bettrr and two better lead actors perhaps it could have been watchable but sorry no this is awful.

Do yourself a favour avoid.

This movie is mediocre at best. It is paved with good intentions. What caused me to actually write a review was the music. Song after song was an assault on my ears. I thought it was just the first song and then the second one arrived sung by a different artist and lo and behold the third one arrived like a strike-out. I saw this on YouTube listed as a Hallmark movie, but it didn't meet the standard by a long shot. But, as I said, the intentions were there. But the script was wooden, the actors didn't have a chance to shine. I don't know if they would or not, but it was dead in the water.

Btw, with the earlier review, the author mentioned that girls don't get Bar Mitzvah'ed but this was clearly identified as a Bat Mitzvah, which is for girls at 12.

I'm going to piggyback off of another person's review and say that this is the worst thing I have seen; and I've seen "The Room". The rooms camera work was "better". You know the line where he says "you are tearing me apart Lisa!"?? Remember how you cringed? Yea that's like every time the main character opens his mouth. I've never seen this type of "acting", screen transitioning, green screen usage, lighting, or questionable scenes in all my 39 years. If I were the producer, writer whoever of this movie I would go and hide. I think that channels like the Hallmark or whomever is putting these movies out, need to just put it to rest.