Christmas Grace (2014)

Fantastic!

Disapointment

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

There are Christian movies and their are Christmas movies, some good, some bad. Christmas Grace will never and should never escape church basement showings before a congregation that I'm not sure thinks people behave as they do in this film.I thought for a bit I was going back to the 50s when I remember a small toy store three blocks from my house in Brooklyn on Nostrand Avenue between Avenue J and Avenue K. Stores like the one that Ryan-Iver Klann and Rebekah Cook own haven't existed for decades. And I sure wouldn't think that Tim Kaiser would start a new one. Just days ago chain Toys R Us has just gone out of business.But there it is. Klann and Cook are a Christian couple that own a small toy store in a small town and one fine day Tim Kaiser comes along and opens another one across the street. He's well financed and also pulls something sneaky and underhanded and the little toy store goes belly up.But it rebounds in a few months because of an idea Klann has and pretty soon they've got Kaiser on the ropes business wise. Kaiser who's a real Grinch of a human being is really getting his.What follows is so incredibly off the wall that I was stunned looking at the film. Believe me in real life NO ONE is that generous.Not even hardcore evangelicals truly believe what happens here in their real lives.

I am sure whoever wrote this film thought he had a winner however the film is no winner. The poorly constructed film suffers more problems than a senior citizen in a rest home on life support. Let's start with the story. A man has owned a store for years. He gets put out of business by a man who opens up a competing store. Our hero loses not only his store but not his faith. the reality is he lost his mind. In real life most women would of dumped him but his Stepford Wife sticks with him. See our hero decides to re-open his store after he makes a fortune on some toy. He then CONVERTS the devil that put him out of business.This whole film is stupid. The acting is nothing to brag about. The only thing good about this film is that there will not a be a sequel! If there is I won't see it. I think the film (as someone else stated) be remade. The idea of it is "good" it was just written poorly and acted with nobody with any talent!

With all the great reviews I saw on IMDb for this film I had to see it. I bought this in December and forgot I had it. This morning when I going through my DVD Collection I saw this film was still unopened. So after 6 months I got around ti watching this. It was a disappointment.I thought this film was going to better than what was presented. As a viewer I was expecting a man who loses his faith and later regains it with the help of his family and the church. Instead what I saw was a film about a man who seems to be insane & borderline autistic.The film is in no way shape or form entertaining! Its insulting that this man seems to keep putting his family's future at risk all the time. In reality we "Protect" our family first. "Charity Begons at Home". The main villain in this film is a business man (of course). Yes he is stereo type but the redemption of him at the end is uninspiring.

What a terrible film. The plot. The directing. The writing. The acting. The camera angles. Nothing is done by a professional. In this film a fan has his faith tested when he loses his toy store business after a major competitor opens up his revival store across the street. If you want to have a blast with this film then you need to invite friends over have keg of beer and then laugh at how bad this film gets and how stupid the ending is.The best thing about this film is that you can take the DVD of it and have a pretty good size coaster for your coffee table. I do not mind a religious theme I expect it in a Christmas movie. What I hate is poorly made films.