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This was good for 1 hour 45 min. Then it morphed into the strangest ending I've ever seen in a Christmas movie. Steve Lund was wasted in this. Love Erin Cahill but this wasn't for me. For a better moving on story, watch Christmas Homecoming instead.

Seriously, the character played by Erin Cahill just wasn't rootable at all and exhibited no character growth whatsoever throughout the movie. She started and ended the movie in the exact same place emotionally. This seems to be an ongoing pattern at Hallmark since new leadership came in. They seem to think viewers want shock value instead of predictability and usual tropes. The reason the network is successful is because people watch for predictability and tropes.

The movie's ending was preposterous and ruined it for me. Hallmark needs to hire some new writers - puleez! I don't want to see formulaic storylines or tropes - I'm sick of the same old, same old from Hallmark. The same story over and over with different actors in different towns. While this movie was a departure from the usual ending, it was completely unbelievable. I want to see really great stories about people finding (or in this case, losing) love. Many people have commented on the inaccuracies with military procedures, etc. This is classic for Hallmark no matter what the story is about. Continuity errors, technical errors abound on most of their movies. It's just lazy writing. They take their audience for granted and it shows.

First, did not care for ending. Second, during the first part of movie it showed husband with a rank of Major. Later when they showed him online talking to to his wife, they showed him with captain bars on. That's right before he was supposed to be killed. WHAT, did he get a demotion? If your going to have some sort of Military movie, then it should be acurate. I'm x-military, and it hurts to think Hallmark would not check facts. We are watching the end now, and he has captain bars on. It's sad to think that Hallmark would let this happen, and that the good actors and actresses had to be in it.

I really wanted to like this movie. Erin Cahill and Steve Lund were good, but the script was awful. The attention to military detail was lacking. Was Colby a Major or a Captain? The General was not even aware of the most important detail. How he didn't know one of his men was alive was beyond me. I felt so bad for Pierce. He loved her and her daughter so much. The flashback scenes were probably the best part of the movie. The ending happened so quickly and was not believable at all. How you wrap up a movie in the last five minutes is just silly. Will not be rewatching this. I gave it 3 stars for just Erin and Steve.

Christmas Bedtime Stories (2022) -

Finally! An ending that was not so predictable, I really liked that things were a little bit different instead of what Hallmark and the rest of them have been churning out for years.

Okay, so it was a tad twee and a slight stretch of the imagination, but the heart and soul was still there and it will be nice to watch these films going forward without believing that I know what is going to happen right from the start, because I might be surprised as I was by this one. I just hope that they don't disappoint.

The story was sweet and not too over the top with the whole "War Heroes" trope that some of them have had. It was there, but not hammered at me with a corn fed, ham and cheese stick.

I've always liked Steve Lund, he's not exactly hard to look at and in the role of Pierce he was a very charming and loveable character.

Erin Cahill has always generally been fine in these films too and I could appreciate her characters emotional state as she portrayed Danielle. Her worries for her daughter and the uncertainty of her past was easy to understand and I think too often swept away for the sake of the blossoming romances in films and that's where they have come across as hard to believe sometimes. People shouldn't have to get over relationships so quickly, whether through separation, divorce or death. It was nice that they had considered that a bit more in this film.

I personally liked the soppy ending, which did bring a little bit of water to my optical organs if I'm honest, but I could see why others might have found it to be too saccharine.

I'll watch it again for sure though, even if none of the soldiers or Mr Lund got even topless.

7/10.

I like the movie even with the sappy the maudlin, she is a good mother is a very good actress, but that is all the problem here, she is an actress no for romantic movies any more, not because her, it is because Hallmark has labeled very bad. Today there are very good designers that can stylize for her a great personality as an mature woman, but she insist in not modify her hair, she is traditional in her way, she insist in this style maternal, realistic, and she needs to be take care more of the original clothes, can be served as an example the care that hallmark has now with another actress very beautiful, so that's all the problem for me, because i like design, and Erin Cahill please somebody takes care of her, please the eyes is so much make up on her eyes, she is a beautiful woman if you do original things with hes clothes, not necessary to be more classical, I don't like classics clothes in her, she needs another thing, more like middle of elegance middle of transformation in a modern woman and a little wild and she deserved to be treated better.

We're two women who love the fluffy predictable Hallmark Christmas movies normally, as a break from the stressful real world and even the other kind of shows we watch and also love with plenty of action, violence, sex, etc. But this one ends in a ridiculous out of the blue way that destroys the whole story of the movie. It also makes no sense for how things work in the world. It's a complete fantasy ending far in excess of the bit of romantic fantasy we allow for in a Hallmark movie. It left us frustrated and wishing we had watched something else. Skip this one. Plenty of other Hallmark movies this year, (and Lifetime, Netflix, UpTV!)

One of the worst movies ever made. I understand that anything is possible in movies but this is unbelievably impossible. The military is apparently inept, unable to determine if a soldier has perished or not. An incredible slap in the face of Gold Star Families.

I feel sorry for Erin Cahill and Steve Lund. Their names will be forever linked to literally one of the worst Hallmark movies.

I found it difficult to watch, the movie never found a groove. I contemplated switching to GAC after the first 30 minutes but I figured it would come around. Wrong.

I probably would've enjoyed washing the dog or cleaning the refrigerator more.

For all the reviews that ripped and criticized Christmas Bedtime Stories...really? Really?

I understand everyone has different optics in watching movies, I get it. But, I cannot believe there were so many negative and poor reviews. I guess I should take it at face value that with so many poor reviews that it must be true. I don't even know where to begin refuting the less than complimentary comments, so I'm not even going to try.

When I watch HM movies I do my very best to NOT read the reviews or glance at the overall rating. I succeed most times with the rating and almost always with not reading reviews.

This was a wonderful story, and except for it ending abruptly and it was kinda a far fetched ending the story was beautiful. I first thought Danielle, played by Erin Cahill was either dreaming or fantasizing at the end. I'm glad it was neither. Pierce, played by Steve Lund was also in tune with Danielle.

If you read my review and the less than positive reviews before watching Christmas Bedtime Stories, give it a chance. Hopefully you'll be left enjoying it.

Stunned that these writers would do such a poor job of changing the direction of this story so radically in the last 4 min of the movie. Just stunned. Up until that point it was an awesome movie. The awesomeness was totally lost in the last few minutes. I'll never watch it again. You would think that the writers would continue to build on the story they had been telling, but rather than do that they decided to add a "surprise" ending that was actually unexpected and not hoped for by the viewer. They failed miserably. The ending was very poorly "set up," and actually the writers missed an excellent opportunity to tell finish a story centered in reality that would have been heart warming, to say the least.