Movie: Christmas in the Rockies
Network: UPtv
Starring: Kimberly-Sue Murray, Stephen Huszar
Synopsis: Romance sprouts in time for the holidays when Katie Jolly enters a lumberjack competition to save her family's business, and the paramedic who saved her father's life also joins the contest.
Rating: ⭐⭐1/2
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Review:
I know that these romance movies I watch often have the dumbest plots and lots of issues, and this one is no exception to the rule. Katie (Murray) gives up her dream job when her dad has an accident. She finds out that her family business is in jeopardy and decides to enter a lumberjack competition in hopes to save it. Along the way she starts to spend time with the paramedic (Huszar) that helped her father. They fall in love, she realizes that he is also competing against her, she wins and they live happily ever after.
So let's start off by saying 2-3 weeks to train for a lumberjack contest? Ok. That's believable.🤷 The people she is competing against would have been training a lot longer than that for goodness sake. Not to mention she is tiny and probably couldn't pick up an ax in that 2 week training session. Also how is she not sore or have blisters after the first session? Anyone who's trained for anything would know that working out muscles that haven't been used before would be beyond sore the next day. And how about those delicate hands? Wouldn't she have blisters with the "extensive" training she was doing? I'm not a lumberjack competition watcher by any means but being a Canadian I have seen a couple. In my limited experience this was so unbelievable and frankly a bit ridiculous.
Kimberly-Sue Murray and Stephen Huszar gave solid performances albeit they had a horrible script to deal with. The plot was slow, the story was unrealistic and the two leads didn't have chemistry in their corner. Overall it wasn't good everyone. If you have nothing better to do then sure give it a watch.
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