Christmas At The Holly Day Inn (2023) -
I probably shouldn't have expected much when it took half an hour for the produced by credits to go by at the beginning of the film, you know when they've had to get funding from that many people, it's probably not been wanted by anyone that knows what they're doing.
And within minutes I did feel that the film was kind of amateur hour at Christmas time or like an after school special aimed at kids not adults, mostly due to the basic and hammy dialogue.
The lighting was off and the camera work was a bit shakey too. The production values weren't brilliant and the actors weren't great either.
I couldn't work out whether the cast were badly directed or if they were just really poor at doing their jobs. Anita Dobson should have been better, but it's always hard to tell with Colin Baker who tends to be quite flamboyant anyway.
I was prepared to give this one a go however, despite my reservations, which was more than the hotel had (Obviously - Standard plot device), but ultimately there was a bit where Oliver (Kevin Leslie) the leading man, got bumped in to just after the first break and his acting made me cringe so much that I gave up, because life is too short.
Unscored as unfinished.
I probably shouldn't have expected much when it took half an hour for the produced by credits to go by at the beginning of the film, you know when they've had to get funding from that many people, it's probably not been wanted by anyone that knows what they're doing.
And within minutes I did feel that the film was kind of amateur hour at Christmas time or like an after school special aimed at kids not adults, mostly due to the basic and hammy dialogue.
The lighting was off and the camera work was a bit shakey too. The production values weren't brilliant and the actors weren't great either.
I couldn't work out whether the cast were badly directed or if they were just really poor at doing their jobs. Anita Dobson should have been better, but it's always hard to tell with Colin Baker who tends to be quite flamboyant anyway.
I was prepared to give this one a go however, despite my reservations, which was more than the hotel had (Obviously - Standard plot device), but ultimately there was a bit where Oliver (Kevin Leslie) the leading man, got bumped in to just after the first break and his acting made me cringe so much that I gave up, because life is too short.
Unscored as unfinished.