A Christmas Proposal

Cute trailer but the movie is horrible. It starts bad and only gets worse! Acting is not good, production is horrible, characters are unlikable and the plot absolutely sucks. It looks like a home movie.

Twenty minutes of my life wasted on this god awful low budget home movie pretending to be a movie. In my defense I thought it was the Hallmark movie called "A Christmas Proposal" with Adam Rodriguez and Jessica Camacho. My few questions for the writer/producer are the following: 1- who gets a military assignment of 15 years?

2- what upset him so much with her that would make him request a transfer far away, but it not be part of the storyline or developed in the movie?

2- did you audition any other female leads?

3- did you audition any other male leads?

And most importantly!!!

4- why the hood gold tooth Earl character, REALLY WHY??

These days the cover advertisement for movies give you no clue the movie is extremely low-budget. I have Never given a 1 rating but don't say I didn't warn you. Lighting, sound and soundtrack was that of a star-studded production but simple-minded content with sad acting and lines as if written by an adolescent. Overly dramatic acting when not called for. I kept watching as if someone would jump out of my closet and say Gotcha!!!

Poor storyline and horrible acting. The drunk mother storyline was never developed and actually made fun of and the Earl character was unnecessary and borderline offensive. There just are no words to describe how painfully awful this movie was.

This film opens with a young Marine named "Jason" (Joshua T. Shipman) being approached by an officer who tells him that a transfer request he submitted several months earlier has been approved and that he will be going to Japan in a few months. The problem is that he submitted the request when he was angry with his girlfriend, "Carla" (Lily Nicole). Now that they have patched things up, he regrets his decision and fears losing her while he's assigned overseas. Not knowing what else to do, he asks his cousin, "Earl" (Josiah Bennetone), for advice, since Earl knows how women think. Armed with this newfound wisdom, Jason sets out to propose to Carla on Christmas, with the deliberate intention of not telling her about his overseas assignment until after she agrees to marry him. Utterly oblivious to the hole in this logic, Jason also has to navigate around "Carla's father" (played by David Perez), who already doesn't trust him around his daughter. Now, rather than reveal any more, I will just say that this film could have been a really good comedy if the director (Nakia T. Hamilton) had paid more attention to detail. For starters, in the first scene where Jason is informed of his assignment, both he and the officer are outside. However, neither Jason nor the officer is wearing headgear. Additionally, as the officer approaches, Jason doesn't render a hand salute. Upon closer inspection, I also noticed that Jason's uniform has no name tag or other insignia; it's completely bare. That's unheard of in the military. Likewise, nobody in their right mind would suggest that an overseas assignment would last 15 years. That's crazy. Needless to say, these are rather apparent discrepancies that anyone who has ever served in the military could easily point out. Unfortunately, simple issues like this recur throughout the movie to the point that they undermine the entire film. On that note, although it's tempting to criticize the actors, I actually believe most of them did pretty well, given the obvious errors and weak scripts they were given, with Joshua T. Shipman and Lily Nicole standing out the most. But that's just my opinion. Be that as it may, although I initially looked forward to watching this movie, the faults were just too numerous, and I have rated it accordingly.