Santa as a super hero. That’s probably the pitch that ION, forever in the shadow of Hallmark and Lifetime, couldn’t resist. Unfortunately they have no clue what do with that intriguing idea and it ends up that Santa’s real super power is to gaslight women.
Like most Christmas movies, Last Chance for Christmas’s plot is fairly thin. The movie tries to add drama by mixing in a tough ethical question for the characters to wrestle with but then resorts to solving it at the end via Santa magic.
Broadcasting Christmas is the latest Dean Cain holiday themed movie to arise from the Faustian pact he’s apparently made with Santa Claus that forces him to star in at least one holiday themed movie every year.
Or the story of a really desperate town that inexplicably loves Dean Cain because well…he’s Dean Cain.
