Christmas Land (2015)

Hated this movie. For so many reasons. Like so many have mentioned, signing a contract without a respectable lawyer reading it? How stupid. The evil man who you keep hoping will say in the end she didn't have to pay the rest of the money? Can't you legally void a contract if you think there was some dubious stuff going on? Not disclosing all the terms etc.? Just a stupid movie. It's just as bad in July 2018 as it was awhile back during Christmas time. My least favorite Christmas movie ever. The one good thing is to see a different actress. Tired of seeing Candace Cameron Bure, Danica, and Lacey in so many of the movies. Did I say this was bad?

It is a Xmas movie, right? How the heck do they have an immoral, greedy real estate developer come out a huge winner? On top of that they put him (Mason) in a major scene with townspeople and it is all smiles. When they should have been running him out of town tarred and feathered.How Mason became a 'winner' is nonsensical. It calls for signing a million dollar+ contract with a 'stranger' and without reading it.Two weeks to renovate a run down Christmas Land and all we see is a single purchase of a few cans of paint. Voila, it is magically as great looking as in years gone by.Did you know that a coffee can,not even a large one, cannot hold hundreds of thousands of dollars? Finally, our 'hero' attorney can not come up with a single creative approach to help nail greedy, immoral Mason.

I love the 3 main characters in this movie; Jules the grand daughter heir to Christmas land (Nikki Deloach), Tucker (Luke Macfarlane) the good guy, and Mitchell the bad for you boyfriend. Nikki Deloach was in "A Dream of Christmas" this year- which was a much better movie (I hope she continues to do Christmas movies). I really enjoyed the first 30 minutes, liked the second 30 minutes but the final part of the movie really lagged. Richard Karn (Home Improvements Al) character just didn't work. I noticed they put well known actresses like Cynthia Gibbs and Maureen McCormick in such really small parts. I loved that they put Chonda Pierce in the movie and that worked well. Most of the reviews hated the ending of the story and I agree. I would recommend watching it though.

Not sure if this will be considered a spoiler, but I am going to explain the plot line. Christmas in July, so Hallmark is airing tons of Christmas movies. This is the typical story line, but I can't even get through it. Main character is a busy executive dating someone and gets called back to their hometown for some reason. Plans on not staying and ends up not leaving and falls in love with someone there.Usually these types of movies can bet light hearted and fun, but the acting is really bad and it's just painful to watch.What's worse is Luke MacFarlane is a really good looking guy, but totally unbelievable as a straight character, playing a lead role.Don't bother to watch this dud.