Christmas at the Chateau

Some may claim this is a parody; but, unfortunately, even if that was true, it was a very bad parody. It was uneven with no redeeming qualities at all. The only bright spot was the lovely inn. The only way this dog could have been salvaged is if they made it into a silent film, while showing clips of the inn.

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.

I like pretty much all made for tv romance movies. I've watched 100s but this one was unfortunately sooo bad! The plot was so patchy and unrealistic and bad. Acting was over the top. I'm writing this review to make sure no one else wastes their time.

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.

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.