Netflix's first big Christmas offering of 2022 sees the much-trumpeted return of Lindsay Lohan as a spoiled privileged woman at an elite ski resort, who loses her memory after an accident that brings her into the orbit of a nice handsome widower who runs a failing hotel and she slowly learns the meaning of life and true love. True to the genre, the film is full of broad stereotypes (obnoxious self-absorbed influencer boyfriend, cute young girl missing her mummy, wise grandmother, etc), eye-rolling very simplistic slapstick comedy and absolutely no subtlety whatsover. The film lurches along in an unconvincing and uninteresting manner, which thankfully does not make many demands of Lohan's talents, with Chord Overstreet twinkling appropriately in the widower role. Lazy cynicism even extends to a 'comedy' moment when Lohan switches on a TV to be greeted by the Netflix ident and another of their Christmas movies and the sudden end gambit taken from It's A Wonderful Life. At least the film has real snow and the scenery is very pretty in this otherwise gaudy, obvious and insincere film.
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