This is a RomCom Christmas movie, so everything about it predicatable. What makes one movie more interesting than the next is how actors portray their characters. Schoolteacher Kate (Jewel Staite) has a problem. She is to be married in a couple days, but has been snowed in, and her flight has been grounded. Enter the handsome, moody guy with a snowmobile...and his own agenda. He COULD get her to the church in three days, but doesn't wanna. After that, blah, blah, blah, then probably a happy ending. I say probably because I turned it off after 26 minutes. Why? Because Kate was beyond lacking common sense: she was just plain dumb. It's an actor's job to portray a character in certain ways. If Kate has been an airhead, everything idiotic would have been understandable, but she was an elementary schoolteacher, meaning she was a college graduate who possessed at least a little common sense. No college graduate would have done the moronic things she did, e.g. walk to the small airport after a record snowfall, expecting the single engine planes to be flying; unpack her suitcase looking for her phone, dropping all her clothes on the ground, leaving them there; using the pull cord that starts the 50 year-old snowmobile engine, then drop it on the ground with a shrug as if to say "I don't know what that's for"; steer the 50 year-old snowmobile in a flying leap off an embankment instead of easing down the slope gently, thereby rendering it uselesss; try to light fire logs directly using a single match, even after she was told where the kindling was; finds a bottle of lighter fluid, then squirts it not only on the logs, but all around the hearth area as well; staring at the fire that's burning on her coat sleeve, requiring Mr. handsome-but-moody to throw her in the snow. I can be entertained by airhead-lacks-common sense, but I cannot painfully watch college-educated-yet-completely-dumb. It's as if Jewel Staite was just trying too hard to make it work.

The story here is pretty much standard in that a woman on her way to her wedding gets into a crisis with another man. The man gets her out of the crisis and as she gets closer and closer to him and her wedding, she has second thoughts. The trouble is that the script seems very unnatural.

I mean, the crisis makes the main characters both look stupid, even though they are supposed to be intelligent. The sequences where they fall in the thin ice water and build a fire to save their lives do not seem practical. The shock of the ice water would have killed most people. Then, the fact that they are carrying a cell phone with them the entire time and do not call for help when they are lost? Hard to explain that one.

Of course then there is the strange attempt by the younger sister of trying to seduce her fiance while her sister is out of touch in a crisis adventure. The fiance character seems shallow and unreal. To me, the Canadian scenery is easily the best thing about the film. I would appreciate the actors more if they had been given a better script to work with. Like the crisis, the script runs out of gas.

Through more than half of this movie, I hated everyone, but Kate most of all. It surprises me how annoying Kate is given that she was so beloved at her school. Kate is what I would call mean to Redford, but he certainly did nothing to endear himself to her. On the other hand, it's not surprising that she might be a mean person given her father who has his picture in the dictionary next to narcissist. It's disappointing to me because I normally like Jewel Staite.

I guess stupidity, rudeness, assault and social ineptness are funny for some, but for me too much of them is annoying. The scene with the trapper also is not funny and doesn't belong in a Rom/Com.

Eventually there are a few laughs although the stupidity is still a bit much.

There is an interesting development near the end. I sure didn't see it coming, but I don't care for what followed or at least not how it happened.