Christmas at the Chateau

While there are actors, writers, directors, producers, who are rejected for far better scripts, acting, and production value, these drecks got PAID FOR THIS? And Showtime is paying to air it?

Come on Man! Women are not this stupid and so desperately in need of romance to waste their time on this!

There is nothing good to say about this movie - poor writing, stilted acting, unlikable characters and muddled direction - I could not stand to watch it to the end.

This has some of the most laughably bad lighting and editing I've ever seen in a commercially released movie. In more than one scene the light completely changes from one POV to the next. One scene in particular stands out as a clunker: the bank guy and his fat buddy are in his office. The one guy is sitting. Then it cuts to show the guy walking to the chair they just showed him seated in! And the other guy is doing something like they didn't even know they had started rolling.!!! Just laughably bad and edited by someone who apparently had no concept of what editing involved or apparently had never seen a film before.

Three Sisters At The Christmas Chateau/Christmas At The Chateau (2019) -

This was a bad film. Honestly I'm not sure why I finished it.

I didn't like the leading couple, even before he found his redemption and neither of them were attractive and I don't mean just physically. Their characters, Grant (Justin Jones) and Brooke (Kinsey Leigh Redmond) were irritating and while he was slimy, she was stupid.

It was so hard to believe them getting together. I certainly couldn't fall for the man taking MY house away. He didn't even really apologise or help her correct things. They also had no idea how to communicate and why would they get together when there was no spark at all. Even their unknown connection by phone wasn't romantic.

Their "Anonymous" texts were a bit weird, because they were deliberately not saying anything that would have moved the story along and it was so obvious that's what was happening.

The supporting actors were awful too and his son and her youngest sister were actually entirely pointless characters.

The whole middle sister thing was odd too. They made a huge fuss about her coming home to start with and then nothing after that. In fact the "Three Sisters" title really made no sense at all, because the other two contributed diddly squat to the plot.

There were so many bits about the film as a whole that were annoying - All of her Shakespeare quotes for one thing and the fact that they asked the public to pay for their financial issues for another. Why should other people donate to their failing B&B just because Brooke doesn't know how to run a business?

It also had no Christmas magic at all and Grant giving her back her own necklace was not a gift.

Really I can't find anything positive to say about it at all. Usually I do at least fancy the leading man, but that did not happen at all with Justin Jones, who was as boring as his banking character.

I should have turned it off when I first thought about it.

2.25/10.

I wanted to watch a cozy christmas movie and I thought I was getting that but the whole entire movie was pretty bad. The editing was horrific, there were scenes that were dubbed, strange cuts that would appear that had nothing to do with the current scene, and lastly, bad acting. I think Hallmark or Lifetime does a better job for sure and that is saying a lot! And the story...omg. It didn't make sense, I didn't like the ending, it didn't make sense about how they had to save the "Shakespeare Chateau". I felt the characters needed to make amends clearly before they would reach a resolution, which was choppy at best...no way would I or anyone would "fall in love" with someone after they stole their money. I just don't get it. Overall, I was entertained but let down by the way it ended, but my boyfriend and I laughed throughout because of how bad it was, we both agreed it was like watching a student film. Anyway, I'd skip it, and watch something else.