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I enjoyed this movie, for once the main female lead wasn't an event planner, baker or some such female job. Ok some of her close ups were obviously not her but she was a really refreshing actor and to see one out of the usual high heels was great, she was also refreshingly natural, healthy looking and free of the overdone makeup (unlike dad's girlfriend). More could have been made with the relationship with grandfather and the obvious green backdrop pictures at the viewing point were iffy but all in all, after the dire Hallmark movies and others of this genre over the last couple of years, what a refreshing change. May we have more, strong female roles please?

Is the guy playing her father really old enough to be her father? And is Trish Stratus supposed to be the same age as him, and therefore 20ish years older than her?

So apparently there is a shortage of actors in the 50 to 70 year old range. Well I know that's not true so I am guessing that Mike Shara was originally cast as the love interest but got demoted to playing the father when Stephen Huszar, more well known to TV romance fans became available. The father and daughter were played by actors who were the same age. It was creepy. And I don't think "ick" is what you go for in a Christmas movie. Couldn't they have made him her brother?

A Christmas In The Rockies.....Yes corny, yes cheesy, bad acting, poor casting. Yes all lumberjacks daughter's are lumberjacks too. It's in their blood and their hair, makeup, and clothes always look perfect even while working out. Yes her father was 1 year old when she was born....but I don't really expect anything else from these movies. They are soooooooo far from reality that it makes me laugh. Plus extremely predictable. The only interesting character in the movie was the man who played Grandpa Sam. Please Santa buy some acting lessons for Mike Shara. Anyway Merry Christmas everyone. God bless.

Well, it's better than many Xmas movies this past few years. The last one I watched was a gift for Xmas which was really terrible. This movie in the rockies okay lacked a bit of a thrill and needed more going on to really score better, but it was nice. Nicely done, well acted, easy to watch. And realistic as well for example the cash amount which you'll have to watch. Usually that would be a grand prize of well a lot more. When the scenery and settings are decent in this movie. So nothing here to make me watch the movie again but as i said better than expected nothing spectacular and at least better than the usual stuff we get.

Main chick born in 85 Dad born in 87 Boyfriend dude born in 84

Why???? Why isn't the dad in his 60s?!

I'm not paying a bit of attention to the story at all, so can't really say if it's good or not, but the age thing really threw me through a loop. It's yet another Christmas moving with the same music as the rest.

I have to come up with filler words because the required characters are 600 and I don't understand why. I see many other reviews much shorter than this and now you're stuck reading this blabber.

Jingle bells, jingle bells 63 to go.

Santa, reindeer, snow balls, elfs, Christmas tree.

'Christmas in the Rockies' (2020)

Opening thoughts: 2020 was a variable year for Christmas films, there were quite a large number that were average or less but there was also a good number that were above average and more. So much better than expected considering the circumstances, even if rushed production tended to show more so than usual. Will admit to having seen my fair share of above average and more Christmas films recently, but 'Christmas in the Rockies' is not one of them. Am not always keen on anything focused on competitions in this type of film and 'Christmas in the Rockies' does little to change my mind.

Good things: It does look nice, especially the scenery, and at least looks professional.

Did think also that the two leads were pretty good. Kimberly-Sue Murray and Stephen Huszar are very charming and give their roles heart and light-hearted-ness. Their characters aren't too perfect or over-flawed.

Bad things: The rest of the acting is another story. Most of it is going through the motions-like and most look too young or out of place. Mike Shara is more older brother than father figure and the lumberjack competitors are the wrong build and too neat to pass for lumberjacks. The characters on the whole are dull and can grate. Murray and Huszar's chemistry could have done with a good deal more spark, and it would have helped if the romantic relationship was more fleshed out and less rushed. There is too much focus on the competition, and the events surrounding it lack tension, don't go very far most of the time and are too contrived and formulaic.

Furthermore, the story drags quite a lot and the lack of tension and charm makes it feel really bland. The ending is very easily foreseeable early on and is too neat. The script has a very awkward flow and has too much cheese and corn, with the more dramatic parts being too sentimental. The music is forgettable at best and has little distinction. The direction is routine.

Concluding thoughts: Overall, very weak.

3/10.

This is such a fun, playful holiday movie. Who doesn't want to see Trish Stratus wield an axe? We don't see a lot of Canadian themed romance films so this was a joy to watch.

Are you kidding? I'm not even going to bother reviewing the story - a romcom's pretty much a romcom, so don't expect art. But there's nothing about this that even tries. Women do lumberjack competitions, but they train as hard as the men and are totally badass. We're supposed to buy that this little ball of fluff is going to grab an axe and just step in? Puh-leeze.

But the part that's really offensive is that this was shot in Ontario, on the other side of the country from the Rockies. Like, 3500 km away from the mountains that are Right Behind Them all through this movie. That's cynical and fraudulent. You wanna make a movie about (something) in the Rockies? The least you can do is buy a bus ticket and go there.

Attractive cast, acting is okay. But how can a little slip of a girl, who has never touched an axe, expect to just sign up and compete with rugged lumberjacks who have years of experience? Too many worthy, starving screenwriters are out there, needing work, to waste resources on this production.

I only watched this one because of Stephen Huszar, but not even he could save this film. The acting is BEYOND subpar. The writing is all over the place. It seem there must have been a push to make a ton of Christmas movies for 2020, then the pandemic hit, and they proceeded and did the best they could. They coulda shelved this one!

This TV romance is even less believable than usual. The movie is centred around a Lumberjack competition for $50,000. I found myself singing Monty Python's Lumberjack song as the movie went on. The acting is not good and the plot is corny as hell. Only watch if incredibly bored.

Well, granted the cover for this 2020 Christmas movie from writer Neale Kimmel wasn't exactly permeating with Christmas feel. I mean, a woman holding an axe slung over the shoulder with a smirk and glaring in the direction of a man behind her wasn't really screaming Christmas and holiday season.

But still, as I hadn't already seen what directors Justin G. Dyck and Amy Force had to offer with "Christmas in the Rockies", of course I opted to sit down and watch it.

And now having sat through it, I can in all honesty say that I wasn't particularly impressed with the storyline here. The narrative was just slow and didn't really have much power behind it to drive the momentum forward. And little did it help that the storyline itself was sort of bland and the character gallery in the movie wasn't particularly impressive.

The whole concept of the storyline was just hard to delve into and really take seriously. It felt forced and staged, which didn't really add to the overall enjoyment of the movie.

The acting performances in the movie were adequate enough, taking into consideration the limitations imposed by the script.

Sure, if you have nothing else lined up for a Christmas movie, I suppose "Christmas in the Rockies" can be viewed a single time. But this 2020 movie has none of the contents to become a Christmas classic, nor did it actually have contents to support more than just a single viewing.

I found "Christmas in the Rockies" to be disappointing and slow paced, so this is not really a movie that I would recommend you rush out to watch.

My rating of "Christmas in the Rockies" lands on a less than mediocre four out of ten stars.

I enjoy Hallmark films and to relax I find them harmless fun, and some are better than others. But in this one I found an elderly man sitting around a family table, and I endured for as long as I could his Christmas Cracker preachiness. I did not expect King's College Cambridge rendering of Christmas traditional Carols, but I hated the souping up of ' Come All Ye Faithful ' and other perennials, and the banality of its musical quality appalled me. The film showed a town that I would hate to live in, and I felt so claustrophobic with the no spoiler plot proceedings that I turned it off. The acting was mediocre, and so was the filming. It seemed drained of life and colour, but despite this failure of any cinematic value I hope that the next Hallmark film I see will return to something at least akin to life.

Another movie with a contest to save the family _______ (logging company). Three weeks to train for a physical activity her competitors have been training for their whole lives and outweigh her 2-1 or more. So like many rom/coms don't even try to reconcile anything close to realism. But this one stretches way past even those. The story is lame with no real highs or lows or surprises. The "tag line" for the movie promo doesn't make sense and also gives away what might have been the only surprise way too close to the end. The climax plays out like all these movies do, just different details. The dialogue isn't much.

Mike Shara is too young to be Katie's dad and his acting is bad.

Kimberly-Sue Murray and Stephen Huszar are OK together, but Katie and Harrison cozy up pretty darn fast.

I know that this is a romance movie and it's not supposed to be accurate but a girl that was raised in the Rockies and any man that has gone to school should know that bears hibernate in the winter especially by Christmas. I have never seen a man (Jack) compete against a woman (Jill) in any lumberjack competition and I have seen a lot as my brother competed as a lumberjack. Lumberjack competitions require a lot of strength and speed in which men and women are very unequal. A person who hasn't trained in while would be so stiff after the first day and would need a couple of days to recuperate as she seemed to be after the first training session. Any one that has done any manual work in a while know that your hands would be so blistered, after swinging an axe, which would stop the training longer than the sore muscles. Finally...why would a highly competitive good looking woman settle for a plain looking aging dude like Stephen Huszar?

Where do I start?

First of all, we hit the ground running with environmental agendas...my woke-o-meter went off right away...I weary of being pandered and lectured to by "Hollywood."

Then, we meet a father and daughter played by actors 4 years apart in actual age (She's 32, he's 36). How does that even happen? They don't even try to make "Dad" look older.

Now...let's get to the meat of the silliness. We're supposed to believe that a young, petite woman has a snowball's chance in hell (note the wintery reference) of competing and winning against actual lumberjacks who've years of experience in lumberjack events that she can barely perform, let alone do them at a championship level. (Note: she can't start a chainsaw or hit within a foot of a practice mark with an axe.)

Then, we're supposed to believe that there is a $50,000 grand prize AND she has a chance of winning it. Fat chance.

We do have an African-American ex-boyfriend. Culturally and geographically highly unlikely and yet, VERY woke...well done. We also check a "Hallmark box" for vaguely ethnic best friend.

The "superstar" lumberjack champion who is guesting at the event is another petite woman, complete with cheek implants and collagen-injected lips...yea, I'm buying that.

Throw in a beta male lead, an EMT mind you, who's afraid of his own shadow and needs to be told that a doe is a female deer and how fire works...plus the native girl intends to use New York pepper spray for back-country protection against predatory animals. These are just dumbbbb plot details.

If I were to deduce the mental age the film-makers assume for the viewers, I'd suppose single digits. And yet, this would be hard for toddlers to believe.

Ugh...give me a break.

I read all those awful reviews for this movie and I told myself, Watch it before you judge. I love the backdrops as we don;t have those in South East Asia, YES, we do know of the Rockies etc, it is only but a good movie. I love the story line, you need a heart to watch it. A daughter fighting to save her father's farm pitting herself against all those seasoned contestants, giving up the chance to move to the big city etc. A bit of family, romance and fun, enjoy the movie as it is with a beautiful backdrop!

I really wanted to see nature because I live in a residential area and there is no nature here and I don't have a car to go out of town either. But the film showed only 3 pine trees, a few trees. I have the same number of trees under my window, and I don't live in a sawmill area at all.

It's impossible to believe that a few shots against the backdrop of mountains are real and not photo wallpaper. There are also a few shots with Christmas decorations, and the remaining 80% of the film consists of close-ups of the characters, as if they are participating in a beauty contest.

It's generally unbelievable that the characters are only 30 years old, and they have already lost one of their parents. Each member of the family has experienced some kind of tragedy - an uncle broke his arm, dad broke his leg, mom died in an accident. But grandpa baked cookies :) Katie was the only one in the contest among men and it's unbelievable that she won. Is this a woman's job... and is it necessary to set such an example for girls.