Honestly, I had hopes. That were dashed many times. It took 20 minutes for it to settle into a believable story. The set up was painfully forced. It started to get it's groove but every time it did they heavy handed The Message. What could have been a natural flow was pushed in an unnecessarily uncomfortable way. Instead of allowing us along for the ride, they tried to baseball bat us over the head. But it came back again for a moment or two before it came in strong again. Honestly, by the end I was ready to tank it good for all the back and forth where it almost did it well then sabotaged itself. I was settling on a middle ground but gave it a few extra points because FINALLY we returned to the idea that the girl sometimes has to apologize too. Especially when the bad idea was hers. Too many movies on the girl power train are giving us women who are treated as perfect even when they clearly mess up. But I appreciate they put that in.
Our leading lady in the beginning felt like she was trying too hard. Her performance got better though and by the end it wasn't her acting that was a problem. It was the lines the gave her. She can act but not over bad dialogue which is hard for the most experienced of actors.
So it wasn't fantastic. The writer hurt the story a few times trying to shoehorn in a heavy handed message and clunky lines. But it wasn't as bad as most of the other stuff coming out these days. I was actually able to see it through to the end on a hope. And that's saying something these days. Yeah, the chemistry wasn't 100% but I've seen worse. I think it was more the push of The Message that interrupted that potential as well.
So I give this 7 stars. Which is one of the better reviews I've given a Hallmark movie as of late. The last two years have been rough and I imagine it's going to keep on this trend.
Our leading lady in the beginning felt like she was trying too hard. Her performance got better though and by the end it wasn't her acting that was a problem. It was the lines the gave her. She can act but not over bad dialogue which is hard for the most experienced of actors.
So it wasn't fantastic. The writer hurt the story a few times trying to shoehorn in a heavy handed message and clunky lines. But it wasn't as bad as most of the other stuff coming out these days. I was actually able to see it through to the end on a hope. And that's saying something these days. Yeah, the chemistry wasn't 100% but I've seen worse. I think it was more the push of The Message that interrupted that potential as well.
So I give this 7 stars. Which is one of the better reviews I've given a Hallmark movie as of late. The last two years have been rough and I imagine it's going to keep on this trend.