People a script with one-dimensional characters like a Chinese Christmas shop owner called Santa, a comedy policewoman double act that is not funny, a band of sanitised homeless people and, at the heart of it, make the two leading characters emotionally disengaging. Sprinkle liberally with rom-com ingredients, one-liners and your own political agenda and then add music that, while running as a thread throughout, holds nothing together as no reference is made to it.
