Wow. This movie was so predictable and it had so many plot holes. When a man's wife dies, he is given three days to be with her again and to prove her love to her. I knew exactly how the movie would end. By the way, the movie keeps getting cheesier as it goes.Yet, I gave this movie a decent 5 stars. The concept isn't bad, even though we've seen it before, but it is delivered as sappy, melodramatic, and of course predictable. Still, the acting is actually pretty good all around. I was especially impressed with Reed Diamond's performance. I'm also a big fan of Kristin Davis and she amazes me here! Tim Meadows is funny yet philosophical as the "angel".Yeah. "It's A Wonderful Life, Part II." Still, the acting is good enough to keep this movie floating. Barely floating, though.

Watchable and feel-good in the "It's a Wonderful Life" style, but nowhere near as clever as It's a Wonderful Life. Stereotyped characters, script is sugary and predictable, a 10 year old could have written it. Overall, not one to pay to watch.It had everything you would expect from a sugary movie - an irritating angel, snow, Christmas trees, children and candy, saving a child's life (including a very bad demonstration of CPR - you wouldn't save anybody's life if you did it like that), childhood reminiscences, parental reconciliations, refusal to participate in an extra-marital affair, morality lessons etc, etc.

I've just seen this film after flicking through the channels and it was about as subtle as a sledgehammer. In the first twenty minutes it became obvious as soon as Kristin Davis' character found the dog Lulu that she was going to get hit by a car.Even though I was aware it wasn't going to be the most intelligent film I've seen it did start showing potential when Diamond's character met Lionel. Unfortunately this opportunity to do something vaguely interested was blown away as soon as he freely admitted to being an angel.What followed was your usual Movie Land Christmas Sentimental fare. Snow ball fights, Christmas trees etc. As the film got closer to its end I found myself hoping that it would be allowed to finish with a little mystery or even perhaps an unconventional happy ending but that turned out to be wishful thinking. It soon became obvious that he would have to give up his own life which he did. Unfortunately though, the film makers pushed a little too hard for a happy ending which left us with the last minute, the most unbearable, saccharine filled conclusion I've seen in a while.In general the cast is below par. As another reviewer pointed out, Diamond's character is almost moronic at points and I still resent Lionel being so open about who he was so some of his rather poor jokes only compounded my dislike of him, Davis though gets to stand out with her acting.Overall it's no where near being great but it's a nice little movie to watch on a quiet winters afternoon, just make sure you switch it off once Reed Diamond has died.

Why are American filmmakers always compelled to force happy endings? This one's not even necessary (probably), but the producers must have felt it desperately needed, for they kept making the ending blatantly obvious, and more so as the movie went on. As for the movie, it got better towards the end as you feel more for the characters. I'd give it a B- just for potential. You'll be left wondering if YOU can do a better job, though.