Ma cible pour Noël

Really enjoyed this movie! The only flaw I seen was the main character leaves her purse unattended while skating. Lol

Just another Hallmark movie set at an ad agency. The story here just never clicks. However Brooke Nevin is a fiesty, frothy beauty who can carry even a boring movie up a notch. Michael Cassidy also adds some zip toi a lifeless script.

This is a Hallmark film so everybody's smiling and happy here XD . Just before this one I'd tried to watch another Hallmark Christmas film and I switched it off after 15 minutes and rated it 1/10. So why this one 6/10? Well, because in the end it was OK to watch, even though there were some really unrealistic and naive things. Somehow they pulled it off, I don't really know how. And I loved that the protagonists, who were very charming, treated each other with respect (even though they were rivals), they weren't hysterical, judgemental or plain stupid. It was like a gulp of fresh air.

In Chicago, Elle Bennet (Brooke Nevin) plans to throw her college friends her annual misfits Christmas party. She's single and obsessed with coffee guy. They keep running into each other. Her boss has an emergency business issue. Despite being told to take time off, she insists on coming into the office. Maxwell Turner (Michael Cassidy) from the New York office is coming in to fix the problem. He turns out to be coffee guy.

These are two pretty people and their happy ending is inevitable due to its Hallmark pedigree. There is no drama for the first half. It's not until the midway point where the big conflict is introduced. It needs to be introduced much earlier. Even with the conflict, the tension simmers along at a pretty low setting. The romantic misunderstanding is too weak to make it into a real conflict. It's a Hallmark special with manufactured drama. It works for Christmas as holiday background noise.

One of seductive Halmark films . Sure, the recipe is same but it has the gift to seems real different. Duty, love, Christmas and drops of old fashion, just fair romance. The result - more than seductive. In few senses, the deserved hot chocolate cup.