Christmas Truce

It's nice to see a Christmas movie that doesn't involve silly premises. World War II has been a forgotten war and I'd rather see a romance in that era than the same-old same-old Christmas formula set in LA or NYC.

Everybody makes fun of the Hallmark Christmas movies genre but this one takes a different tack. It is well acted and quite touching.

I love Christmas movies! And I love historical movies set in WWII. I have no trouble forgetting all logic for a good story. But this movie is just ridiculous!! More holes than Swiss cheese in the storyline. It doesn't even have that good old feel good ending that most Christmas movies do. What a waste of two hours. I'm so disappointed.

Enjoyable enough if you can subdue your angry reaction to errors, stupidity and Canadian insecurity. The camera work is good.Thats about all that is. But the acting is pitiful, the effects artificial and the ending appallingly predictable. Christmas movies, with few exceptions, are hopelessly bad but this one must be in the top (bottom?)ten. So many errors... The US armed forces were not racially integrated at the time. Women did not walk around rural areas in occupied Belgium wearing designer clothing. And how, in the name of all reason and common sense could a 50 pound sack of Canadian Redpath sugar from Montreal, a rather blatant product placement, end up in a rural house in 1944 occupied Belgium? And once again our milquetoast Canadian filmmakers show their lack of backbone. This was a Canadian produced and Canadian tax subsidized film. Then WHY IN HELL is the story about American rather than Canadian soldiers????

I wanted a fact-based story about the real event that took place during WW I. I should have read the reviews before I rented it. It was a nice love story with some good acting but not at all what I was looking for. It took place during WW II and was pretty disappointing. Low budget film for sure.

If you want historical or technical accuracy, apparently this isn't your movie. Watch the history channel. Over and above the technical inaccuracies, I did find the Captain's distractions from duty to be annoying. The story circumstances also seem completely unbelievable, but this is a Christmas movie, so go with it.

This movie is a different approach to Christmas romance. The romance is sweet. As to story, there is more conflict than the dozens of Christmas movies on the main Christmas movie channels, and it includies war violence. There is drama.

At certain points, the dialogue is a little high-brow or esoteric.

The ending? What can I say that's not a spoiler. I guess I can say it has the same good characteristics and bad as the rest of the movie.