Christmas Under the Lights

Of course I was not familiar with the 2024 Christmas movie "Christmas Under the Lights" from director Lucie Guest, but opted to add it to my 2024 Christmas movie marathon, and thus give the movie a fair chance.

Writers Russell Hainline and Beverley Wood didn't exactly think out of the box when they wrote the script for the movie, as they basically played it safe by putting all their money on generic sappy Christmas tropes, for better or worse. Well, sure, "Christmas Under the Lights" was a watchable movie, don't get me wrong, and you're in for a treat if you enjoy these particularly formulaic sappy Christmas movies that follow the Hallmark-guidebook-of-how-to-make-a-sappy-Christmas-movie.

The only face on the screen that I was familiar with was actor Niall Matter, whom was in the movie for maybe less than a minute. But I've seen sufficiently many Christmas movies to recognize him. The acting performances in "Christmas Under the Lights" were fair.

Hardly a Christmas classic in any way. Nor is it a movie that I will return to watch a second time.

My rating of director Lucie Guest's 2024 movie "Christmas Under the Lights" lands on a five out of ten stars.