Countdown

This was surprisingly good... Had low expectations

Not a bad little film. Predictable from the jump but still well done.

Yeah really nice storybook, c()()L idea :thumbsup_tone1: i liked to watch from the 1st Min. to the last... a perfect mixture of _In time_ with Justin Timberlake and _Final Destination_ garnished with scary sauce 👻 and the best on top: [spoiler]the very end is open for Countdown Update 2.0[/spoiler] I'm really looking forward to that. 🤗

Some plots might not make sense but the script for the father is perfect lol
Moral of the story
- use an iPhone instead of android phone
- ‘jailbreak’ is a term used for ios. For android we say ‘root’
- using drugs properly can trick the demon

I liked it more than I thought I would. Countdown is a movie riding on the tattered coattails of Final Destination. The girl from Netflix's You stars as a nurse who downloads an app that predicts your date of death. As soon as you deviate from your set path, a spooky spooker comes after you.

I appreciated the movie actually creating scary CGI stuff. The [spoiler]kid's feet breaking backwards was quote a scary one, as well as the demonic forms of previous victims and deceased individuals showing up was good.[/spoiler] I did find myself a bit disappointed that the people weren't terrorised as much as they could have been and the jump scares were the same predictable ones happening in silence/with no background music.

I liked the protagonist and some of the supporting characters. The creepy doctor I think probably wasn't a good cast, it's the dad from twilight coming to play another doctor. He looks really short and like his neck is bulky and weird. The priest was fun but more of a wet dream than anyone real. I have been on a bit of a demonic kick recently so I'm glad to see also religious characters who don't believe in demons.


The music was pretty cool throughout the movie also.


One weird thing is [spoiler]I thought the black guy was names Matt. When they find his name on the computer I thought it said Derek King...and the black guy says hey that's my name? Maybe I was misreading it.[/spoiler]

Much better than expected. I’ve watched other horror films which have tried tying in modern technology and they’ve been pretty poor, with the only exception being The Grudge’. Now this certainly isn’t in the same class, but they actually pulled it off reasonably well, without it being cheesy...I expected cheesy and was proven wrong.

Had a few jump scares and it kept me entertained.

It’s not phenomenal or brilliant, but I enjoyed it. Passed a little while of my evening which would have been utterly boring without it.

I suppose it reminded me of The Final Destination film in a strange way.

pretty entertaining, though it took the entire movie for it to click that the lead was beck from you.

3 Thoughts After Watching ‘Countdown’:

1. It was a lot better than I expected to be. Solid creepy moments and haunting visuals make it worth a watch.

2. Elizabeth Lail was great as the lead. Loved her in ‘You’ as well. She definitely served up some scream queen realness here.

3. I wasn’t a big fan of the ending. It’s not at all surprising for a film like this to leave things open for a sequel, but it was a disservice to all that just preceded it.