Um Amor Inesperado

This movie is unappealing. First, Theodora's character was way too harsh in the beginning 10-15 minutes. Made it easy not to care about her or to even wish something bad would happened. Should have started attitude at a lower level.

Second, the dialogue was a new kind of cliche- yes, we've heard it before, but at least it fit- not so with this movie. Seemed like writers grabbed lines they liked or were familiar with and then tried to force them to into random scenes. The writing also negatively impacted the story development. Plot points were disjointed as well, no cohesion.

Reminds me of brainstorming meetings where everyone is too buzzed to be authentically productive and know they need to rework it in the morning when people are sober, but in this case that didn't happen.

I just like my Xmas atmosphere fix and do not expect any great artistry from Hallmark- style romantic movies. Chose this one because of the title and story teaser. In the beginning, I quite liked Theodora's edge and Charlie's dark sensitivity and thought it would be developed throughout the movie. But it was as if their personalities suddenly changed, mellowed right to the mainstream, and it made no sense. Although the actors are good, a skilled director could have gotten so much more out of them. I found the dialogues awkward as well as the whole storyline and script. And the bad bad banker and investor characters? Not believable in the least - as if they were plucked out of Victorian ages :) Also, the movie looks and sounds like a cheap production with all the popping and hollow spaces. Shame, really.

It doesn't claim to be a Hallmark movie and the quality shows that. The acting is fair, but slow and non-professional. The lighting bothered me the most. Many scenes were fuzzy and dark. Natural sunlight was pointed towards the viewer and very distracting.

The story was similar to a Hallmark movie, but it wasn't cheerful or nearly as decorated.

The scenes were dreary. For those of us who are familiar with Hallmark movies, it must be very expensive to have top lighting professionals, but this film just doesn't have what it takes.

It is a movie with a happy ending, and that's always a pleasure to see.

I've had to fast forward parts of this. I love Christmas films, the cheesier the better but this one. Oh dear. The two leads at at the bad but as for the rest. The most stilted awkward acting I've seen in a long time. Even Am Dram can be better.

I don't know whose fault this is - but the script is awful the delivery is wooden - how it ever got passed as fit for public consumption goodness knows - it's terrible in every way. I gave up at 30 mins . I suggest you don't even begin... there are plenty of far better Christmas movies on other channels. US movies of this kind are usually of a much higher standard than this one

What amazes me is how it even got as far as development hell unless it's the studio head's son/daughter and he/she wanted to give them a job. But surely there are some good scripts and crew out there who could do a 100% better job although the script is so bad maybe not. Someone needs to take a much tighter rein on the content and delivery of films like this, frankly it's an insult to audiences putting this on ... there are no words frankly just avoid it completely..... it is total rubbish in every way.

No words ....