New Year's Eve | Blogmas Day 24

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Happy Christmas Eve guys!

When I was deciding what film to review for Christmas Eve, I thought it would be more than fitting to write about a film that takes place on an 'eve'. And what better film than the third in a trilogy that I love?

This film is the third film in the Valentines Day/Mother's Day franchise, both of which I thought were really interesting and love to watch repeatedly.

But as you can guess, this story captures the lives of a set of New Yorkers on New Year's Eve. For some, they couldn't care less about the end of a year, but for others, it's the most important night of their lives.

It's hard to give a more detailed description than that because each person's story is quite short, and I don't want to give anything away about any of the particular stories.

The thing that this trilogy as a whole does really well is that each of these movies does a good job of setting up the characters. You don't get a lot of time with any of the characters, but you feel like you know them pretty quickly - as you would with anyone if you spent an entire day by their side.

This film in particular gets you in the festive spirit even if there's not a holiday around the corner, but it's especially great if there is - you feel like you want to celebrate with them.

It's easy to get invested in each of these stories. Because you only see each character for a few minutes at a time, when you see them again, it almost feels nice to check in on the next stage of their day. Even though hardly any of these stories could make a compelling feature film, there's something special about all the stories being put together.

Having said all of this about the concept of the film, in terms of the actual film, it could have been about 40 minutes shorter. Each story started well, but most of them took way too long to reach a point of interest - whether that's two characters getting together, or anything else. After a while, you get a bit bored of it and just want to fast-forward to the end.

In addition, some of the stories had really heartwarming endings, while others were really anticlimactic.

Overall, watch this film if you want to feel festive, but don't expect to take anything away from it.

5/10

It's Christmas tomorrow!

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