Christmas Unwrapped | Blogmas Day 24

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It's Christmas Eve!

Reporter Charity Jones (Amber Stevens West) investigates a story about a man (Marco Grazzini) who insists the gifts he distributes to the town for Christmas come from Santa Claus himself.

This movie was originally going to be for yesterday, but when I watched it, it was so festive and I liked it so much that it just felt right to have it as the Christmas Eve movie.

The best thing about the film is how Christmassy it is. Christmas is absolutely integral to the plot, and a plot point being that Charity has to participate in multiple Christmas traditions just makes things so festive. If you're not in the mood for Christmas this will definitely push you in the right direction.

The story itself is great. All of the characters are interesting, written well (for the most part), they all work well together, and their relationships feel real. In particular, Charity and her best friend Tisha (played by Cherion Drakes) feel like actual best friends.

Conflict is created from quite early on, and it works well because it really allows Charity to have some great character development. She's almost a different character from the beginning of the film to the end and it's great to go on this journey with her.

Another thing that grows is the chemistry between the main couple. We get to watch them slowly warm to each other and fall in love, and that really adds to the authenticity of the relationship.

It was much more original than I expected it to be, and it's a story that keeps you engaged the whole way through.

My only real issue was with the ending. Not only did these two have the worst first kiss in the entirety of Blogmas, but things ended so abruptly that it just felt really weird.

But overall, this was definitely on the upper end of the Blogmas list, and I'm really glad that I saved it until later because it's definitely a great pick for Christmas Eve.


Title - 5/10

Originality - 7/10

Christmas Spirit - 9/10

Christmas Music - 3/10


And that's my eleventh Blogmas done!

Have an amazing Christmas! I'll be back with another post on the 26th!



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