I came upon this one very randomly. I knew The Miz made some movies during the 2010s (The Marine 3 to 6 for instance) but i never heard about this one.
So where do i start? The movie is very short. It was made for TV and you can litterally see where the commercials are supose to be with those tv shows fade away sequences. It run at only 70 minutes or so.
Everyone in this seem to be a caricature, especially the parents of the main protagonist. Speaking of wich, Francia Raisa is absolutely stunning in this movie. I was not familiar with her. Guess ill have to see what else she done.
The movie overall is very watchable, but its so short that it seem to really just chain action scenes together and minimal plot advancement. The action is "ok". Nothing great but not terrible, exept that everyone shooting a gun seem to be a Storm Trooper in this.
Where the movie really missed for me is with the romance. The Miz character feel more like an afterthought and i felt 95% of the movie could happen without him and be just the same. I didn't find much chemistry between them at all. And the whole love triangle was poorly done.
As others said it seem to be more a movie happening during Christmas rather than a Christmas movie.
Aleks Paunovic is an overall charismatic actor that i enjoyed in many projects. Having his familiar face as the main bad guy is nice but the character itself is so poorly written and one dimensial that nobody could had made him that interesting.
You never get to know much about him. Simply that he is a bad guy, was arrested by Tory, and now he want payback after having escaped prison. You don't know what he does, why he got money to have so many goons, how he escaped and so on.
Basically this movie was probably written in 1 afternoon over a beer at a bar. Yet despite all of this its not "annoying to watch" or "so bad you want to turn it off". It let itself be watched ...once.
