ddora-karmelic Review of Last Christmas

Last Christmas (2019)

Factually incorrect with unconvincing acting

[3/10 · 10 November 2019]

I was really looking forward to a cute feel-good Christmas rom-com but was left wanting. Emma Thompson should really do her research. The "Croatian" she spoke was something with rolling "r"s that resembled Russian but had no connection to any real language. KGB that she fears so much was an SSSR intelligence agency, not Yugoslav. And btw, by 1999, the Yugoslavia she sets the opening scene in, did not exist as a country (for at least 7 years). I'm surprised that Emilia Clarke, who spent years filming Game of thrones in Croatia, did not notice some other absurdities about the way it was portrayed. Or maybe that was what made her acting so unconvincing. At least her brows were moderate in this movie. And whoever chose the costumes should reconsider their calling.