A Snowy Christmas

Had to write a review to express how dull this movie was. Used the fast forward alot Elysia was just terrible, the character and the actress. She is unable to give any good facial expressions apart from dull and sad. Maybe she was to be dull and sad through the whole movie, bad for the lead actress. Can't believe she couldn't give any life to the charactoer. Her sister exuded more character, more range of expression. If the husband was to be the comic relief it didn't work, just silly. Again another movie where a good actor, Damon Runyan, was put into a lame movie, trying to give it some life.

A/One Snowy Christmas (2021) -

After about half an hour, I started to wonder if the "Contractor" Forest was ever going to start work. Played by Damon Runyan, he was a nice chap, but clearly hiding something and the flat cap made him look quite old.

Whereas I wasn't bothered about Kelly (Elysia Rotaru) at all.

I did like Chris (Darrell Faria) though, he was a pleasant character, which the moody and otherwise unwelcoming inn needed, because Sheila the Mother (Mary Long) was quite loopy and the Sister, Grace (Farrah Aviva) changed her attitude really quickly. It was a shame that she went off on one actually, because she had been a relatively good character until that point.

But, Oh My God!! Where did they find that terrible child??? Georgie Vaughn as Clare was just awful. I would almost say that her performance was child abuse, but in the way that it used a child to cause abuse like some sort of noise and absolute cringe torture.

Overall the story wasn't bad. It had obviously been done before and it was quite grey and dreary, but it was watchable. It was just a shame that it had so many little flaws.

For instance the dialogue was all very forced and quite inaccurate in some ways, like Forest had never done any home repairs before and was making it up on the spot. The way he worshipped Kelly and her family was a bit too much as well.

And Surely somebody on the props team could have made a REAL snowman with all that snow available. It's so obvious when they use that weird felt and looks ridiculous.

There were also a lot of romantic cliches and I personally wouldn't have wanted her if she got arsey at me without even listening to me anyway. Kelly really was a stroppy cow.

Towards the end it got very sickly sweet to the point that I thought I might get tummy ache or my teeth might rot from my gums. Yay! Redemption for everyone!!!! (Insert rolling side eyes emoji), but I might have found that endearing on another day.

I won't say "Don't watch it", but if you've got something else that you're looking forward to, watch that first.

5.49/10.

More than half of hallmark movies are formulaic and lack depth, this one included. There was no spark that made it believable. Nothing that made me WANT to watch the rest. The plot has been done before. The actors were just okay in their abilities, except for the leading male (Forrest). He was better and needed more lines. Most everyone else was not as natural as they could be. The dialogue and delivery were basic. And there was very little chemistry between the leads. They really didn't have enough screen time together to develop it either.

My biggest gripe with these movies is that there's always a misunderstanding. Then no one communicates to resolve the problem. Instead, they run away or get upset before they even know the truth. The sister (Grace) of the lead female (Kelly) did it to her. And then Kelly did it to Forrest a couple of times. Just hear him out for goodness sake! So now Kelly has all of this drama that could've been avoided.

The last ten minutes was kind of sweet though with the leads. Kelly and Forrest definitely needed more screen time together. I think that would've made the movie much better. This is a one and done for me.

The lead was very unlikable at the beginning and then she grew into it, met Forest (Damon: why I watched it) and their chemistry was quite alright. But then it all went wrong and he was hardly on screen anymore. This wasn't just some misunderstanding, it was evil and almost hate... Very weird story. Really too bad bc the lodge, the lake, the mother, sister, brother in law were all very likable. Not the little girl... Oh boy. Without Damon, I would've stopped watching it.

The premise is about the family's failing lodge. The two sisters built a snowman and talked about doing a Frosty thing and bringing it to life. Then a guy shows up out of nowhere and helps them. Is it the snowman?

This movie had no highs or lows or surprises. I can't say there was much chemistry between the leads. For one thing, they didn't have enough screen time together. Most of the acting was fair to poor especially the leads. The dialogue was fair to poor. The story was jumbled, especially the situation with the lodge and the involvement of the helper guy. Attempts to build suspense fell flat for me.

Note to self: don't watch this again unless I want a nap.