Christmas 9 to 5 (2019) -
As someone who has done more than my fair share of Christmases in a retail and hospitality environment, I can honestly say that this was not a film for customer assistants, supervisors or managers to watch unless they want to spend the entire hour and a half scoffing at everything that was wrong with it.
The producers of this film had no idea how retail works and I had to question if they'd ever even been in a shop or understood how a business is run, because there was just no way that you could save a department store like that in just one Christmas by doing the things that happened in this film.
And Joe Dinicol was not a leading man, if he'd been my manager, it would have taken a lot for him to have earned my respect. What a dweeb, he couldn't run a shop to save his life. If his character had been a sales assistant or a visual merchandiser I might have found it more believable for her to make a connection with him, but it was hard to believe them as a couple with him being such a useless manager and her being just as useless at so much too.
The story had been done before, with a better structure and written by someone who had actually worked in retail or at least been in a shop, but the ideas in this one were all too far fetched and a lot of it was very cliched, without actually doing the tried and tested the justice that makes it so often used.
It was all very obvious, without it being cute in any way and it just angered me for all of its flaws.
2.50/10.
