The Man Who Invented Christmas

CHASE ***
This is one of the more interesting Christmas movies out there.  As much as we have seen many "A Christmas Carol" stories been told and retold, we never get to see the story behind the story.  Hence comes "The Man Who Invented Christmas," which follows Charles Dickens and how he wrote the famous "A Christmas Carol."  Everything that's done in the movie is done extremely well.  Everyone is well acted (especially Dan Stevens as Charles Dickens), the production is well-designed and the screenwriting is pretty solid.  It also helps that finding out the story behind the classic is inherently interesting, and it's fun to see the characters from the book who interact with Charles Dickens during his writing process.  The movie is done in such a way where we get to see how Charles' life had influenced his story.  My only criticism is that while everything is done well, there's not really anything that felt outstanding to me.  But overall, I enjoy "The Man Who Invented Christmas" and for those who love "A Christmas Carol" should definitely give this one a go.

LANDON **1/2
I agree with Chase on just about everything.  This film does a lot of good things, but not a lot of great things.  Dan Stevens is great and it's a pretty interesting narrative.  The reason why I teetered down to my current star rating is its ending, where everything just seems rather piled together in a similar fashion to Dickens' acclaimed  novel.  Instead of resonating, it comes off as pretty sappy.  Nevertheless, this is a very decent film and one I think audiences everywhere would like.

BRYCE ***
LOGAN ***

BANGERANG SCORE: ***