A Ring For Christmas (2020)-
We all know that I only watched this film for Dean Geyer and that's probably the case for a number of other viewers too.
I just loved him as Brody in 'Glee' and that cute, perfect smile, Swoon!
It was therefore such a shame that he didn't get the support of a decent cast and direction. Some of the others actors are actual, full on caricatures of humans and some quite vile.
I would have turned it off after 3 minutes if I hadn't known Dean was going to be in it. His character, Gabe, is way too nice for her and that's putting it mildly.
It could have been a good story if it hadn't been for the silly marriage element or the bratty rich kid thing. Maybe they should have picked one, but not both. I really didn't like her as an actress or her character and not just because I'm jealous of how close to Dean she was able to be, although that is definitely a factor.
The story jumps ahead in places without a proper script to move it forwards, just when you think that they are going to show you what they've just talked about, they are already the next step ahead and that bit is forgotten.
I'm pretty sure that her other potential fella, Tyler, was having an affair with the obviously gay bar man.
There was also a bit too much charity work going on for it to be realistic, which proves what a cynical and horrible world we live in, but no one can possibly give so much. As a result the warmth about those thoughtful ideas seems to get lost. Most of these films try to make that the moral of the story, while the romance happens around it, but they focussed too hard on the romance and just used the meaningful acts to push it on and too quickly for me.
There was real snow for a change, but not a huge amount of Christmas, at least to start with, but I have to say that it did grow on me, which combined with Dean is the only reason it scores so high.
6.24ish?/10.
We all know that I only watched this film for Dean Geyer and that's probably the case for a number of other viewers too.
I just loved him as Brody in 'Glee' and that cute, perfect smile, Swoon!
It was therefore such a shame that he didn't get the support of a decent cast and direction. Some of the others actors are actual, full on caricatures of humans and some quite vile.
I would have turned it off after 3 minutes if I hadn't known Dean was going to be in it. His character, Gabe, is way too nice for her and that's putting it mildly.
It could have been a good story if it hadn't been for the silly marriage element or the bratty rich kid thing. Maybe they should have picked one, but not both. I really didn't like her as an actress or her character and not just because I'm jealous of how close to Dean she was able to be, although that is definitely a factor.
The story jumps ahead in places without a proper script to move it forwards, just when you think that they are going to show you what they've just talked about, they are already the next step ahead and that bit is forgotten.
I'm pretty sure that her other potential fella, Tyler, was having an affair with the obviously gay bar man.
There was also a bit too much charity work going on for it to be realistic, which proves what a cynical and horrible world we live in, but no one can possibly give so much. As a result the warmth about those thoughtful ideas seems to get lost. Most of these films try to make that the moral of the story, while the romance happens around it, but they focussed too hard on the romance and just used the meaningful acts to push it on and too quickly for me.
There was real snow for a change, but not a huge amount of Christmas, at least to start with, but I have to say that it did grow on me, which combined with Dean is the only reason it scores so high.
6.24ish?/10.