Christmas Eve (2015)

Best movie of this year hands down!

Thanks for the memories!

One of my all time favorites.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

This movie has bad audio, bad writing, and no black or non whites. It's NEW YORK CITY! In 2015! All i see are whinywhite liberals complaining about their liberal arts classes and other boring stuff when there are tons of homeless people outside starving and freezing to death! How is there only 1 non white person in this whole cast? I'm half black and don't like modern movies with all white casts. I say modern because period films may not have a lot of diversity as those were the times. But a dumb movie made in 2015, in a democrat state like new york has almost no blacks or non whites, is strange. White liberals(the people who made this movie and star in it) are calling trump racist, but i keep seeing a trend that these same self righteous types have few black friends and in hollywood, the ones that have power to cast, seldom cast non whites in these stale comedies. This movie is so bad. I have to turn volume all the all the way up and it still sounds muffled. And all i hear are boring white liberals complaining about their perfect families and useless art history majors in college. I bet all these characters(not actors) are unemployed and protesting all the time. If there was a sequel to this garbage movie. I've never heard of this movie until it came on my television. 2015 in NYC, and only 1 Black person in the whole movie?! How can white liberals(the same ones that made this film and act in it) call everybody racist, but be okay with an all white movie like this?! The casting is unbelievable. Or is this film trying to convey that white liberals truly have no diverse friends? The writing and casting and audio all ruin the movie for me.

My wife ordered this based on reading reviews in IMDb, which I had always suggested is a good idea. Apparently she read only the first review, which gave it high marks. She did not notice the average rating, which was quite a bit lower.In addition to transparent characters, a predictable plot, and a disappointing ending which left lots of loose ends, it was clear that the script was not given any technical scrutiny.At the beginning of the movie, a single vehicle takes out a single ground-based transformer and wipes out the power for Manhattan. That can't happen. The fire department comes and cannot remove the van because it has become an electrical conductor which is supplying power to the only thing holding up all of the stuck elevators in the city.The most important quality of the elevator, which opened the door to building skyscrapers, is that the braking system, developed by the Otis Elevator Company, has fail-safe, mechanical brakes. They fail only if that part of the building is destroyed. But there's more...Although the van mysteriously supplies power to "elevator brakes," it also apparently supplies power to brilliantly light up all of the elevators in the plot. If, OTOH, the backup power system in (for example) the hospital is working, the elevators would be powered.And then there was the construction elevator, located outside of a building, which now traps a single passenger. This elevator seems rather clumsily built, in that if one leans on the door, it falls off, and you fall out, but you can hang on and climb back in if you're lucky. Still, it is temperamental. If you yell too much, it drops several floors and slams to a stop, warning you that something, somewhere, is angry with you. This elevator finally brings its passenger to tears, who finally regrets all of the horrible things he did.But was I warmed by the courageous woman who recovers from heart surgery in an elevator full of strangers, only to be told by her surgeon, right then, that she as a month to live? Well, she got over it in a few minutes, took control of the situation, and convinced the atheistic surgeon to lead the elevator in prayer, asking God if he could maybe do something. The dying woman was already getting snarky, goading the atheist to perfect his praying. Snarky and smiling, she finally let him finish. Really?Watching this movie was like buying a car. The more time you have invested, the more want to just get it over with. Too much time invested to go to the next car dealer...or movie.I voted this the worst movie my wife has ever picked. So far.

I was surprised to read that critics initially panned this movie.I saw it on cable and found it amusing, entertaining, touching, inspiring and intellectually stimulating. I was quickly involved in the plot and the off-beat characters and remained engrossed through the end.Even after the movie was over, I continued to worry a about the fate of some of the characters: What happened to the woman with the fatal ailment? Did she end up telling her husband that she was going to die?I suspect that one reason that critics underestimated this film is that it is different. For example, the humor is not slapstick or laugh-out-loud hysterical. Instead, it is quirky, droll and subtle.Another reason that critics may have been put off is the fact that the story seems more appropriate for a stage play rather than for a movie.The action is mostly confined to the interiors of a series of stuck elevators. Hence, there is not much physical activity. Because the setting is static, the movie, naturally, is talky---something that is not to everyone's taste.This movie has been under-appreciated. As more people are exposed to it on cable, I suspect that it will grow into a cult classic.

This movie is not terrible but it is almost uncomfortable to watch because of the slight hint of "fakiness" and melodrama in the writing and acting. You know those people who aren't exactly offensive but you are embarrassed for their insecure and way not clever one liners? Or the guy that tries to be slick but everyone can see right through him but he is not exactly a jerk? This is this movie. It has all the typical, (yawn), hallmarks of trying to be original and witty. It is just not that original at all. I recommend you just catch it on HBO next year when you are bored.There are a few characters that are a bit amusing, but most are beyond cliché and even just stupid and annoying.