Wow. This is one of the MOST boring Hallmark movies ever. Bad acting. No chemistry. Stupid story. The leads were awful. The supporting cast annoying. This one is right up there with a couple other recent REALLY BAAAAAAD Hallmark movies. Couldn't even watch it all. Wake up Hallmark - I used to love all of your movies. Not so much anymore.

As has been said quite a number of times, Hallmark did do quite a number of above average and more films regardless of how over-reliant on a certain formula most were. When Hallmark missed, and they did quite a number of times in 2020, boy did they miss big time. 'Love at Look Lodge' did have the interest point of having one of the first glimpses of a more diverse cast, which was great and appreciated, more than welcome certainly.

'Love at Look Lodge' just didn't click in almost every way. It is on the same level of dire as the previous 2020 Fall Harvest film 'Follow Me to Daisy Hills', except this gets the slight edge when it comes to deciding which is the worst of the two. There was a sizeable group of misfires from Hallmark's 2020 output, 'Love at Look Lodge' is one of the worst. It is not worth looking out for and there is next to no love or nothing to fall in love with.

The only redeeming quality is the scenery, which is nice.

Nice is something that the rest of the production values can be described as. The editing being especially sloppy. The music was in serious need of a toning down in placement and tone, some serious over-scoring and emotion over-emphasis here. The direction is non-discernible, the momentum in the drama is non-existent and the character interaction is so static. The direction fails stylistically too, quite drab.

Script is awkward and full of cheese, also thought that a lot of it was too talky and that most was not necessary. There was also far too much bickering between the leads. The story has no charm, energy or heart, everything one expects to happen happens and happens pretty much exactly where one expects constantly. It is also incredibly dull, going at such a snail's pace in order to pad out such a wafer thin plot. The final act is tension-free and forced with a too unrealistically neat ending that is unwarranted.

Absolutely hated all of the characters, the flaws are all taken to extremes (and every character has at least two and very little redeeming) and the way they treat each other is a real turn off. Especially with the two leads, where the attraction is impossible to comprehend. Didn't detect any love between them, they didn't even seem to like each other. The supporting cast irritate with no exception and both leads are poor, especially a very wooden Jonathan Keitz. It was great to see the diversity but that could have been done more tactfully.

Overall, very, very bad indeed. 2/10.

The story had some fresh aspects with some of the formula stuff thrown in. The general outline had potential but a lot of the details were handled poorly. Charmaine was all wrong from start to finish and I'm not sure if that was writing or acting but probably both. The whole day of the wedding was disconnected and contrived.

The acting was mostly poor. Clark Backo did OK with what she was given. Jonathan Keltz was not impressive at all and had zero chemistry with Backo. Noah and Lilly went too quickly from totally antagonistic to confidants and even then it seemed like there was as much yelling as sweet talk. With a little more transition, the story could have shown how Noah respected Lilly's honesty and straightforwardness, but the story didn't do that. It didn't help that both characters appeared to arrogant and stubborn in general at the beginning so it took a while to like them, especially Noah.

It felt like something more significant was going to come out of Noah's relationship with Beatrice.

The supporting actors all had something to be desired. Gabrielle Jennings, as Beatrice, didn't seem natural. Something seemed odd about Evert Houston's character, Teddy.

Neshama Entertainment made this film and they don't appear to be directly related to Crown Media, but they have done other things for Hallmark, Lifetime, and UpTV among others.