A Royal Christmas Ball (2017 TV Movie)
3/10
Your typical holiday romance film, ripping off from those before it...
11 November 2019
Warning: Spoilers
All of the other reviews have covered the plot faults with the film, so I'll pass on most of them and take a look at the technical aspects.

1. You can't tell time frames. "Lily" comes to the hotel to see her if it's her father and try to confront him. He (and her friend are wearing the same outfit).

2. That night, there's a client gathering... a shot of "Lily" shows her in the same outfit (I will note, that this also applies to all of the lead characters in the film). It's night time.

3. Two of the characters comments about being up half the night and decide to go out to dinner.

4. The mother comes home, there's a confrontation scene outside. It's obviously daylight outside, and all of the shots in these scenes take place with the actors' STILL wearing their same clothes.

5. The next shot shows it being nighttime and the moon over the house. The dialogue, which as mentioned appears to be at night, is of Lily's dad explaining himself as if it just picked up from outside. Funny... it went from full daylight to nighttime again.

6. Wow...There's the final confrontation scene and ALL of the main characters are in it. Did I mention that they're ALL wearing the same clothes even thought it appears we've cycled through 24 - 48 hours. Oh... and it's nighttime, and then daytime again.

I guess they saved on wardrobe by only using one outfit for each character throughout the film. Whoever handled continuity was asleep at the switch or drinking the spiked eggnog. I won't even go into the other continuity issues, as these were more that stood out like a sore thumb.
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