Sierra, played by Lindsay Lohan, is a usual rich spoiled girl who seems to have it all - what's interesting about her is she's not mean, she's just super rich. Like a kind but a spoiled girl. She has always been that way until she loses her memory during a skiing accident. Picked up by an owner of a lodge, she has little choice but to stay there until she has some memory back or someone starts looking for her. There, she has to learn to how to live and to do things from scratch - not all of them, but some. To me, despite being a Christmas story, the movie seemed even somewhat deep because it actually deals with a serious question - what would one be without their memories, and how much of what we do and what we like is actually our own choice.
So watching the changes Sierra goes through when she forgets that she's a spoiled girl was pretty involving - more involving than most plots of some other Hallmark Christmas stories I've seen.
Another thing that did not disappoint in this movie was acting - to me, Hallmark actors are very poor at it and make the whole thing seem like a middle-school play - in this one, many actors were very natural and made the simple lines sound interesting - the best of them being the male lead. What a relief it was that someone who has 70% of the screentime is actually a good actor. Lindsay's acting was 5/10 but seeing her on screen was nostalgic and in a way, the movie is somewhat about her, what's with the spoiled brat thing - so I think a different actress wouldn't have made the same impact.
Some bits of the movie were, of course, way too 'sweet' and cheesy and the amount of Christmas decorations was really overwhelming at times (it's like they plaster more of those every year - scared to see what a Christmas movie going to look like in 10 years) - but with the help of fast-forward I got through those. All the good bits were worth it.
So watching the changes Sierra goes through when she forgets that she's a spoiled girl was pretty involving - more involving than most plots of some other Hallmark Christmas stories I've seen.
Another thing that did not disappoint in this movie was acting - to me, Hallmark actors are very poor at it and make the whole thing seem like a middle-school play - in this one, many actors were very natural and made the simple lines sound interesting - the best of them being the male lead. What a relief it was that someone who has 70% of the screentime is actually a good actor. Lindsay's acting was 5/10 but seeing her on screen was nostalgic and in a way, the movie is somewhat about her, what's with the spoiled brat thing - so I think a different actress wouldn't have made the same impact.
Some bits of the movie were, of course, way too 'sweet' and cheesy and the amount of Christmas decorations was really overwhelming at times (it's like they plaster more of those every year - scared to see what a Christmas movie going to look like in 10 years) - but with the help of fast-forward I got through those. All the good bits were worth it.