christmasjaws I lost my husband in the Iraq invasion. He was sent there because George W Bush lied about Iraq having "Weapons of mass destruction". I was left alone with 2 children. I then had to move out of base housing because "I was not in the service". This film show us nothing of the pain of explaining "loss to children". It also show "nothing of the 24/7 pain" that you go through when you lose someone. My husband hated the war! "He was mad when had to go". He was mad when fellow vets were "Hushed" when they even dared to question the mission. So my children are now 22 and 24. They will not enlist in the war because our country only cares about rich people now. This film makes saints out of vets which truthfully "THEY ARE NOT SAINTS". They are just doing what they are told. When one vets saves another vet "That's a Hero", When they enter a country with a TANK "Do you think they seem like heroes to the people who live there?" This film was crap. It will only be good to people who "Never question authority"

kz917-1 Warm & fuzzy with touches of what the...Much better Christmas movies out there.

zyxnix First of all and most important, Julie Benz is smoking hot. Most of the time she is parading around in heels showing off great legs. A+++ Michael Shanks was trippin' me out cause at various times I thought he was going to go full blown serial killer. That being said.....this is a thoroughly depressing movie...I either wanted to shoot myself or jump out a window to end theirs and my own agony. Watch it once and never go back. Too depressing.

Jack Vasen This movie is predictable and never really rises above that. There was nothing in the story that made it special.The acting was mostly good. I was particularly impressed with Michael Shanks. He plays a disciplined and serious man who is a product of a lot of years in the army, yet he is still able to show some emotion including a positive attitude. Julie Benz has a difficult part. I don't think you can watch this movie and not ask why her character would follow the course that she does. And I'm not sure the answer came through. Perhaps someone in that situation would get it, but the actor's and writer's job is to show it to the audience. I'm not saying Benz did a bad job. I tend to think more that the role might have been too much for anyone, at least the way it was written. Even Sergeant Mullins' choices were hard to understand. Shanks made a stab at it, but again I don't think the limitations of the film made it possible to portray it well.There were definitely some heartwarming moments and I think on the whole I would recommend it with some reservations.