The Christmas Blessing
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Movie Reviews of The Christmas Blessing
Movie Review: Read the book
Summary: 2 Stars
Christmas Shoes movie was much more faithful to the book. The Christmas Blessing had too many differences, and not to its betterment. The book is infinitely better.Movie Review: COULDN'T COMPARE WITH THE CHRISTMAS SHOES
Summary: 2 Stars
I was sadly disappointed with this dvd. It was a waste of money and time. You cannot compare this with "The
Christmas Shoes".
Movie Review: So Disappointing If You Read The Book
Summary: 1 Stars
After reading the book, this movie is such a disappointment that it isn't staying in my dvd collection. It's one thing to edit a book down to keep the movie within time guidelines, it's another to take a movie and start snipping away characters and plots for the sake of simply making a movie version. Why make a movie version at all if you aren't going to stick with the author's characters and plot lines. By the time all the snipping away of characters and plot lines were done with the book, a person who read the book had to not only take a double look...but a triple and a quadruple. The movie version has so many holes, it looked like swiss cheese. Gone was Nathan's Grandma, gone was his sister Rachel, gone was Megan's parents, gone was Charlie's mother, gone was the fact that Nathan took new red shoes to his Mom's gravesite every year, gone was the fact that Nathan's dad was fixed up with Lydia by his Mother-In-Law (whom he lived with), gone was the lady with the neon cap that Meghan raced with...and her meaning in the story, gone was the fact that Meghan was younger than Nathan...and those are just some of the holes in the swiss cheese. Nor do I remember any bar scenes in the book and I don't believe that it was necessary for that to be put in the movie when there was a wealth about Charlie's Dad from the book that could have been used to identify who he was and what he was feeling.
I am very grateful that I had read the book before I had seen this movie. Otherwise, there is so much story and characters that I would have never known were missing....things than made added into the richness of "The Christmas Blessing" in the book form. This was a cheesy, cheaply remake of a book that deserved so much more. I can hardly believe that the author would sign her work over so that it could get so badly chopped up.
Do yourself a favor. Buy & read the book over wasting money on this dvd...you will be rewarded with a wonderful and meaningful story, as opposed to buying a cheaply made dvd. Usually I donate movies that I don't want to keep to the library for either their use or for their sales to buy new books. This dvd just may go in the trash can instead of the library donation pile.
Movie Review: Not a great movie!!!!
Summary: 1 Stars
This movie was totally unrealistic. The whole show takes place within a short period yet four people fall in love, a little boy wins the hearts of two people, and a liver transplant gets diagnosed, an operation takes place and a recovery all just a few weeks before Christmas. It is not realistic at all. The writers didn't even show time passing to make it more believable. Also the man goes home because he decides he doesn't want to be a doctor anymore. Well it seemed like he lived a long ways away (at least in another town). Yet when someone is sick he takes them to his hospital where he worked even though it is a life and death situation. Also the little boy goes to the hospital to see his teacher and how does he get there? The whole movie is like that: very unrealistic.Movie Review: Disappointed
Summary: 1 Stars
I was very disappointed with this movie. If I could have given it no stars I would have. I really loved The Christmas Shoes. That was a well done and touching movie. I can only agree with all the other negative reviews on here 100% about the story line etc. It was just not a well done movie at all.