Dashing Through the Snow (2015)

If you are a Hallmark Christmas movie fan you will recognize both Andrew Walker and Meghan Ory from previous films.Cute but dorky premise. Unbeknownst to her a woman is on the no fly list and ends up in a car with an FBI agent who is surreptitiously trying to ascertain if she is a security threat. On the car trip they being to fall for one another. Can their budding romance survive when the truth is revealed?Cute.

Spoiler.....you would think the director would re-shoot the scene near the end of the movie. In this scene, Ashley was holding a tray of cookies, and a puppy. The puppy licks one of the cookies, a little later Ashley passes the tray of cookies to a passer-by. Bigger issues, I'm taking a guess that the movie starts off from San Fran. and the journey ends in Seattle. Well, I'm from Vancouver, BC; I live about 2.5 hours north of Seattle, and I've done this drive many times. It doesn't take DAYS to drive from San Fran to Seattle....any average person can do this drive within 2 days. Like all Hallmark movies, a lot of things don't make sense, just watch it for the "warm and fuzzy" entertainment.

Our family enjoys watching Christmas movies. This one passed the doze test (no one fell asleep) but I would not watch it again (my son-18 might). The story seems OK but the movie did not succeed in making it interesting or compelling. My wife said she didn't hate it, but it wasn't that good either. I guess we give it a Fair rating.The leading role actress was very pleasant and likable. Her character was fairly well developed and defined. We had some really nice scenes of kids dressed as reindeer, a man giving away puppies, boys switching license plates. No real cohesion to the main story line. The story had some real suspense and surprise, but the film did not exploit it. They just didn't pull it off. It probably could have been a good movie.

After reading the book I was excited for the movie. It was nothing at all like the book. Even the character names were different. The whole story line didn't flow or even make sense. At the beginning (in the book) Ashley is supposed to be trying to get a flight to Seattle to surprise her mom for Christmas the man behind her is Dash and they have some dealings with the reservations clerk which sets it up for when Ashley tries to get a rental car and Dash is once again behind her and ends up with the car. In the movie he just shows up at the car ticket counter and cuts ahead of Ashley and grabs the car. From there it goes down hill like the kids exchanging license plates. It should of been a California plate but the kids do this is Orgegon so suddenly their rental is from Oregon. Hated this movie and was so upset that it wasn't even close to the book.