The cast is cute, the acting is okay - except for the evil ex, who is basically played as a blond Natasha minus her Boris. The luxury hotel doesn't look quite like real luxury (more like a Super8 with extra holiday decor) but the genuine outdoor shots are very pretty.
The predictable plot blandly ignores that the whole stated reason for the heroine and heroine going on a work trip by simply having a snowstorm delay the people they were going there to impress. It also utterly ignores a central contradiction by dissing the blond for her 'missing the lecture' on workplace sexual relationships only to have our heroine willing to ignore the same stricture when it proves inconvenient to her desires.
But its cardinal sin, to me, is that the heroine does literally ALL the heavy lifting, from the first little present to doing emotional support over his - THEIR - high-stress pitch to quietly getting out of his way when it seems he doesn't want her. She's so passive she doesn't genuinely 'win' anything or grow in any way, but simply goes home to lick her imaginary wounds after any rebuff until he comes to his senses and comes to her. As a 'Revenge of the Nice Girls' this is flat, flat, flat.
And quite a step-down for that familiar face you'll notice on the hotel manager, who does his comic best with a really dull script.
Now I'm starting to question whether it actually deserves 5 stars...
The predictable plot blandly ignores that the whole stated reason for the heroine and heroine going on a work trip by simply having a snowstorm delay the people they were going there to impress. It also utterly ignores a central contradiction by dissing the blond for her 'missing the lecture' on workplace sexual relationships only to have our heroine willing to ignore the same stricture when it proves inconvenient to her desires.
But its cardinal sin, to me, is that the heroine does literally ALL the heavy lifting, from the first little present to doing emotional support over his - THEIR - high-stress pitch to quietly getting out of his way when it seems he doesn't want her. She's so passive she doesn't genuinely 'win' anything or grow in any way, but simply goes home to lick her imaginary wounds after any rebuff until he comes to his senses and comes to her. As a 'Revenge of the Nice Girls' this is flat, flat, flat.
And quite a step-down for that familiar face you'll notice on the hotel manager, who does his comic best with a really dull script.
Now I'm starting to question whether it actually deserves 5 stars...