Based on this 2019 Hallmark Christmas movie's cover, then I figured that I would be in for the archetypical and traditional Christmas cheese and sappy romance that Hallmark spews out by the gallon every Christmas. Yet, I still opted to sit down and watch "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" on the chance that it would be one of those surprisingly good Hallmark movies.
Sadly so, then "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" wasn't one such movie. The storyline told in the movie, as written by Rick Garman, was so bland and generic that you could essentially just watch the beginning and ending of the movie. In fact, it was so predictable that you knew everything that happened in the movie way before it did.
I sat through the entire ordeal, though I wasn't enjoying it much. Why? Well, because "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" is a generic Christmas movie of the type that comes out every year like a tsunami of copy/paste formula Christmas movies. So it didn't bring anything new or interesting to the genre, much less anything overly entertaining either.
The acting in the movie was adequate, though there weren't much of any chemistry between Eric Mabius and Tricia Helfter - playing the lead roles.
I wasn't particularly impressed, much less entertained with director David Weaver's 2019 movie. And if you enjoy Christmas movies, then there are far better choices readily available out there. And Hallmark has an abundance of far better movies themselves, if you enjoy the Hallmark Christmas cheese.
My rating of "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" lands on a generous three out of ten stars.
Sadly so, then "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" wasn't one such movie. The storyline told in the movie, as written by Rick Garman, was so bland and generic that you could essentially just watch the beginning and ending of the movie. In fact, it was so predictable that you knew everything that happened in the movie way before it did.
I sat through the entire ordeal, though I wasn't enjoying it much. Why? Well, because "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" is a generic Christmas movie of the type that comes out every year like a tsunami of copy/paste formula Christmas movies. So it didn't bring anything new or interesting to the genre, much less anything overly entertaining either.
The acting in the movie was adequate, though there weren't much of any chemistry between Eric Mabius and Tricia Helfter - playing the lead roles.
I wasn't particularly impressed, much less entertained with director David Weaver's 2019 movie. And if you enjoy Christmas movies, then there are far better choices readily available out there. And Hallmark has an abundance of far better movies themselves, if you enjoy the Hallmark Christmas cheese.
My rating of "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" lands on a generous three out of ten stars.