Think of the most unimaginative, boring Christmas present you’ve ever been given – a pair of acrylic socks, for instance, or one of those suffocatingly perfumed talcum powders you can only buy in petrol stations. Now imagine the spirit of that gift transformed into a holiday-themed British feature film, and you’ll be close to approximating the dull drippiness that is 3 Wishes for Christmas. It’s got all the personality of a supermarket gift voucher. The only saving grace is that lead actor Christine During is sufficiently competent to make the insipid, sub-large language model dialogue sound moderately credible. Sadly, the same can’t be said for the rest of the cast, who seem to have been thrown to the wolves by incompetent direction and find themselves sometimes literally thrashing around, as if being torn limb from limb.
