Christmas Bedtime Stories (2022) -
Finally! An ending that was not so predictable, I really liked that things were a little bit different instead of what Hallmark and the rest of them have been churning out for years.
Okay, so it was a tad twee and a slight stretch of the imagination, but the heart and soul was still there and it will be nice to watch these films going forward without believing that I know what is going to happen right from the start, because I might be surprised as I was by this one. I just hope that they don't disappoint.
The story was sweet and not too over the top with the whole "War Heroes" trope that some of them have had. It was there, but not hammered at me with a corn fed, ham and cheese stick.
I've always liked Steve Lund, he's not exactly hard to look at and in the role of Pierce he was a very charming and loveable character.
Erin Cahill has always generally been fine in these films too and I could appreciate her characters emotional state as she portrayed Danielle. Her worries for her daughter and the uncertainty of her past was easy to understand and I think too often swept away for the sake of the blossoming romances in films and that's where they have come across as hard to believe sometimes. People shouldn't have to get over relationships so quickly, whether through separation, divorce or death. It was nice that they had considered that a bit more in this film.
I personally liked the soppy ending, which did bring a little bit of water to my optical organs if I'm honest, but I could see why others might have found it to be too saccharine.
I'll watch it again for sure though, even if none of the soldiers or Mr Lund got even topless.
7/10.
Finally! An ending that was not so predictable, I really liked that things were a little bit different instead of what Hallmark and the rest of them have been churning out for years.
Okay, so it was a tad twee and a slight stretch of the imagination, but the heart and soul was still there and it will be nice to watch these films going forward without believing that I know what is going to happen right from the start, because I might be surprised as I was by this one. I just hope that they don't disappoint.
The story was sweet and not too over the top with the whole "War Heroes" trope that some of them have had. It was there, but not hammered at me with a corn fed, ham and cheese stick.
I've always liked Steve Lund, he's not exactly hard to look at and in the role of Pierce he was a very charming and loveable character.
Erin Cahill has always generally been fine in these films too and I could appreciate her characters emotional state as she portrayed Danielle. Her worries for her daughter and the uncertainty of her past was easy to understand and I think too often swept away for the sake of the blossoming romances in films and that's where they have come across as hard to believe sometimes. People shouldn't have to get over relationships so quickly, whether through separation, divorce or death. It was nice that they had considered that a bit more in this film.
I personally liked the soppy ending, which did bring a little bit of water to my optical organs if I'm honest, but I could see why others might have found it to be too saccharine.
I'll watch it again for sure though, even if none of the soldiers or Mr Lund got even topless.
7/10.