Written by Luke Barnes
Summary
A businessman, played by Scott Garnham, must take over the reigns of his father’s farm. Hijinks ensue.
I must say I have seen a lot of terrible Christmas films in my time but this has to be one of the worst I have ever seen, why Netflix ever decided to greenlight this is beyond me.
This film proves fairly conclusively that Debbie Isitt is a hack, or at best a one trick pony. She uses the exact same formula she did on Nativity, a no nonsense lead that needs to learn to cut loose, a stupid and loud sidekick that acts more like a child than a grown man and a large grouping of children who struggle to act. Whilst this worked for the first Nativity and just about managed to for the second, thanks in large part to David Tennant, here it just feels incredibly obvious and lazy, clearly she doesn’t have enough imagination to come up with a different premise and can only move the location of her tale around to pretend to be different.
Moreover, this film is a slog to get through. The pace of this film is awful, not only does it approach two hours, despite having no business to, it also meanders along at such a mind numbing pace that you question whether this is some new form of incredibly insidious torture designed to drive you mad. Nothing much happens across the whole of the film, because once again to be exciting and to have things happen would take imagination and writing ability that clearly the team behind this don’t have.
Overall, offensively slow and uninteresting
Pros.
It would be a good film to put on as you are falling to sleep for some background noise
Cons.
It is borderline unwatchable
It is a slog to get through and feels like a trail fit for the Ancient world
It is the same situations and characters as in Nativity only worse
There is very little at all to like about it
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