billcrook Review of An Unexpected Christmas

An Unexpected Christmas (2021 TV Movie)

Good, but could have been great.

[8/10 · 28 November 2021]

I really like Bethany Joy Lenz and Tyler Hynes in their previous Hallmark movies and actually this entire cast was very good. I watched this the night it premiered, recorded it and watched it a second time to see what I may have missed. It's a familiar story of two ex's pretending to still be together and still in love. There are some great scenes with Lenz & Hynes (they work well together) but sometimes you can't understand the dialogue very well so the scene doesn't make a lot of sense and I felt like there were gaps in the story causing it to be uneven and lacking the proper flow. We all know how these movies go - two ex's spend time together, realize they still love each other and then toward the end there's the conflict or misunderstanding that causes yet another break-up. But of course it all gets sorted out and they live happily ever after... Well, it was an entertaining film but could have been so much better. Maybe it was rushed to get finished.