A Wish Come True

6.9 stars.

To summarize my feelings in a few words: a bit pretentious. The filmmaker took liberties attempting to fit too many pieces into a small container. In other words, they took on too much with a limited budget and not enough time to squeeze a big story into a small window of time.

There are too many characters, which convolutes the script and leaves the male lead with too little screen time. I don't feel he was developed enough to be "worthy" of the lead female, although the actor himself is more than up to the challenge. Her performance is hit and miss due to her obliviousness to his continuous hints. I just don't think it portrays a very likable or believable lead female, so it's a bit disappointing. Generally, women are much more intuitive.

Unfortunately, the film doesn't measure up to the script's potential. All of her wishes coming true by her 30th birthday is quite genius and at times it is exciting to see how the writer imagined it all to take place. Some of the wishes are cool and intriguing and for them to happen is really fun. It's a great idea, but they didn't execute it to my liking.

'A Wish Come True' starts off slow, then becomes entertaining, then flattens out, all the while too many moving parts. Oh well, so much potential squandered. If I were a producer, my advice would be: longer run time, more money, a few actor switches.

The lead female is endearing and pleasant, I've always enjoyed her in all her roles for Hallmark. You should see the other Hallmark movie where she's a New Yorker, but she is dating a prince. I kinda like her in 'A Wish Come True' a bit more, but the other movie isn't bad. I didn't like her as much in another film called: 'Time for Me to Come Home for Christmas' (2018), but it was the best movie of the three (the lead male had an amazing performance).

Well, first I found it entertaining. It's what you're expecting and sometimes that's kinda nice.

I found the main character easy to relate to.

My only complaint is, is it just me or were her love interests old enough to be her father???? I couldn't get passed her main romantic interest looking so much older than her. I just kept seeing this midlife crisis guy hitting on a 20-something and that skeeved me out. It was impossible to get invested in her romance so that took away from the story for me.

Other than that though, it was a cute movie for a Saturday afternoon.

Indeed I had my expectations as to what I was getting myself into when I sat down to watch "A Wish Come True", but still opted to go with it. It could actually be a surprisingly nice movie and totally prove me wrong.

This is a very generic and stereotypical Hallmark movie in every sense of that meaning. The storyline was as sappy as they come, which was as to be expected from such a movie. And it was also every bit as predictable as they come.

The cast was adequate, and the acting talents were doing fair enough jobs with their given roles, despite not really having much to work with. Megan Park actually did a fair enough job carrying the movie.

There are far better movies out there if you enjoy these types of sappy Hallmark movies. For a romantic comedy such as this then "A Wish Come True" didn't really fare rather well, and it just didn't offer anything extraordinary to the romantic comedy genre. And it wasn't even because it was a movie primarily aimed at an all-female audience, because that was not the case. The movie just wasn't all that good, to be bluntly honest.

The primes of the story was cute, I like the idea but none of the cast had any chemistry, not even the main couple .. the acting was bad, really really bad! Also, the heroine looked so much younger than her age, not just in looks but her acting ... This was a big fail for me ..

Admittedly this is more than a few years ago before Hallmark went totally woke, but I am still a little surprised that there was a bit of parody about obsessing over being Green.

Lindsay (Megan Park) is obsessed over making the world Green. That is part of what makes her so shallow. It's kind of funny because the word shallow implies a lack of layers in a character but Lindsay actually has several layers of shallow. For most of the movie she is willing to practically sell her soul for these things. Being a big shot in the corporate world, having her dream home, dream guy, dream project. It's too bad because I find Megan Park appealing and not just for her good looks. But in this movie, for so much of it, she had to go against the sweet girl persona she does so well. That girl is usually upbeat, but Lindsay comes off as kind of sad.

If Lindsay isn't bad enough, Billy is downright annoying. I wish I thought that part was funny, but it was just annoying.

While the wish plot theme is a bit unusual, this story isn't that far off the typical format for when the lead female isn't seeing her best guy friend right in front of her. You know in general terms what is going to happen. And of course she has to make a grand gesture.

I can't help but think of the movie Birthday Wish which is also a Hallmark TV movie even though there are big differences. The biggest difference is that it is actually upbeat and funny.