Whoever thought they should make movies based on songs, they were wrong. Very, very wrong.

Five More Minutes is based on a Scotty McCreery song. After the death of her grandfather, Clara (Nikki DeLoach) comes home to help her mother, Bonnie (Sherry Miller), run the family candy store. Clara, having troubles both professionally and romantically, wishes she could spend more time with her late grandfather in order to work through her issues. When Jay (Alexander Jones), the seasonal store helper, finds her grandfather’s journal, Clara finds the answers she needs in her grandfather’s past life.

I think this may be the worst movie on the Hallmark schedule this year. While the plot works well, the script is so stupidly schmaltzy that it is ridiculous. This is another one of those movies where almost all of the male characters are in the military and all of the female characters have spent their lives waiting for their military men to come home. I don’t have a problem with movies about the military per se. However, most of them make the characters so idealistic about the military that the audience can’t really suspend enough belief to get into the story.

The writers could have easily saved this movie if they left the grandfather as the only military character. This could have been a sweet story of what would have been and that could have pointed Clara in the right direction in her life. There was no reason for Logan (David Haydn-Jones), the love interest, to be a military man. It literally had no impact on the story. So leave him as the old high school sweetheart that Clara doesn’t want to fall in love with again. And stop making everyone so emotional. They can have feelings without having to smother the entire town with them.

Do I have to say it? Don’t watch Five More Minutes. It’s a terrible movie. Pick any of the movies out of the “Just OK” bucket to watch instead. You’ll thank me.