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- 2019
- PG-13
- STX Entertainment
- 1 h 30 m
- 2019
- PG-13
- STX Entertainment
- 1 h 30 m
Summary When a nurse downloads an app that claims to predict the moment a person will die, it tells her she only has three days to live. With the clock ticking and a figure haunting her, she must find a way to save her life before time runs out.
Directed By: Justin Dec
Written By: Justin Dec
- 2019
- PG-13
- STX Entertainment
- 1 h 30 m
- 2019
- PG-13
- STX Entertainment
- 1 h 30 m
Countdown
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6.1
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Summary When a nurse downloads an app that claims to predict the moment a person will die, it tells her she only has three days to live. With the clock ticking and a figure haunting her, she must find a way to save her life before time runs out.
Directed By: Justin Dec
Written By: Justin Dec
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
31
6% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
44% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
50% Negative
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
31
6% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
44% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
50% Negative
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
Countdown can never be taken seriously enough to work as a conventional horror thriller, and it’s never quite funny enough to be a great horror comedy. But it’s got just enough eccentricity and self-awareness to entertain despite those obvious deficiencies.
The movie arrives at an eye-roll inducing final twist, and hints at an inevitable sequel. But this app isn't exactly begging for an upgrade.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 87 User Ratings
6.1
48% Positive
42 Ratings
42 Ratings
28% Mixed
24 Ratings
24 Ratings
24% Negative
21 Ratings
21 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 87 User Ratings
6.1
48% Positive
42 Ratings
42 Ratings
28% Mixed
24 Ratings
24 Ratings
24% Negative
21 Ratings
21 Ratings
This movie was far worse then any expectations I had, but it was just so bad that it's just so entertaining to watch with friends.
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A pedestrian thriller whose personal-tech gimmick is even more thinly imagined than one might guess, it's a jumble of cheap jump scares made watchable by likable leads Elizabeth Lail and Jordan Calloway.
In Countdown, it’s the audience that really gets cheated.
If there’s an ethos that Justin Dec’s film believes in, it’s only that “death sucks.”
Rather than screaming for them to go the other way, you'll be urging them to accept fate and die instead.
Bombastically dumb new chiller that probably would have been called "Killer App" if that title hadn't already been used several times.
From the get go, this movie is more of a comedy in my opinion with a hint of horror scattered throughout with jumpscares and suspense. The movie wasn't half bad as I originally thought it would be as I saw from the trailers back when this movie was in the cinema. From the beginning, there was a moment of cheesy dialouge that was playing a stereotype of how Gen Z act that made me cringe but as the movie progressed, I enjoyed it more and found it more entertaining. The jumpscares can be predictable for the most part but the suspense that it built sometimes and some of the jumpscares this movie threw at the audience can expect a few scares out of the viewers. If you went in watching this movie for pure horror, go watch a different movie because you will be disappointed. This turned out to be, accidentally, a sorta good comedy with a hint of horror. As a horror movie, it's bad, as a comedy movie, not half bad.
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The death scenes and synomotography were good but the key of the scenario was not that strong and hard to understand.
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(Mauro Lanari)
Struggling with our own destiny in the Smart era, discovering that neither spirituality (the exorcist demonologist) nor technology (the millennial a bit geeky, a bit nerdy) are salvific. Amazing but true: original (!) variation on the theme, cast of TV provenance and yet up to it.
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"Countdown" doesn't do anything new. 90% of the movie very predictable and easy to tell what's coming. My biggest problem with this movie was the jump scares. One, they were incredibly cheap scares that lost their touch after the second time. Two, you can see them coming. Every scene leading to a jump scare follows the exact same pattern. The lights gi o out, the music gets tense, and you see something creepy. The character turns around and theres nothing. The music stops and BOOM! Cheap scare.... All of that being said this wasn't nearly as bad as some of the other 2019 horror movies this year. The actors vibed well with eachother despite boring performances and not much of a script.
2/10 wouldn't see again.
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Production Company
STX Films,
Wrigley Pictures,
Two Grown Men,
Boies Schiller Entertainment
Release Date Oct 25, 2019
Duration 1 h 30 m
Rating PG-13
Tagline If you could find out exactly when you're going to die... would you want to know?
