A very thinly veiled vehicle for christian proselytizing in a poorly-acted and contrived story. The one bright spot in the entire movie is the lead actress who seems like she might be a descent actress in a better project. She certainly knows how to cry on cue and the director and screenplay writer must have wanted her to cry at least once for every time someone mentions "The good lord" or "god" or some other religious reference is made (and it is replete with such references). The production team has apparently never heard the word subtle because they even ridiculously have the main character check-in for herself AND her milktoast boyfriend (who is staying in a separate room at a hotel) so they can heavy-handedly deliver the line of obvious exposition "and here's the key to YOUR room", lest we think these caricatures of thirty-somethings might not be virgins like 99.9999% of people their age. Not only is this not representative of the mainstream, but it also makes no sense that two people staying in different rooms wouldn't check in for themselves. Why in the world would one person check in for for both parties while he stands uselessly a few feet away? It's hard to imagine a more contrived scenario, but don't worry, the writers manage it. The entire movie is a giant cliché and a nothing more than a made-up parable about christian "virtue", and being honest, good-hearted, god-fearing, people of pure-character. Then again, that seems to be what religious people believe in so enjoy (if you can).
Review of Christmas Lodge
