WHAT’S IT ABOUT
When a nurse downloads an app that claims to predict exactly when a person is going to die, it tells her she only has three days to live. With time ticking away and a figure haunting her, she must find a way to save her life before time runs out.
MOVIESinMO REVIEW
A movie about an app that can predict your death was bound to happen in this social media era of the electronic age. Frankly, I’m surprised it took this long. Countdown plays on the curious side in all of us. Some people want to know, and some don’t, but we all have an interest in the question. This movie waste no time getting to the point. Within ten minutes of the start of the movie, the app called Countdown was downloaded, and the idea of someone dying because of it was now just a party game. Some people got years left to live while a few received days or hours. The latter became the focal point of the film. A few deaths later, and the movie becomes all about Quinn Harris, a nurse at a local hospital that had three days to live according to the app. Just because a phone application states you have 3 days before your death is not the scary part. Knowing others have died in mysterious circumstances that had the app is the problem. Not being able to delete the app is the problem. Seeing something that represents death following you is the problem. Countdown presents us with several issues as to why we should fear such a program. As I watched everything play out, I couldn’t think of a believable way out of that type of predicament. Apparently, the writers of the movie couldn’t either. So they wrote in an expert to help solve the problem – Father John. This was the false hope missing from the film. All throughout the movie, there was a substantial “Drag Me To Hell” level of scary. Now the movie has gone from “Get Out” scary to “Jacobs Ladder” stupid. Well, that might be a bit harsh, but after Father John, it lost some credibility. Countdown had such high potential in the beginning and could have been one of those horror movies people talk about for years. Now people will just talk about how great it could have been. I have a feeling this will become a lot of people’s guilty pleasure movie.
OUR RATING – A COUNTDOWN TO 7
Media
- Genre – Thriller
- Street date
- Digital – January 14th 2019
- DVD/Blu-Ray – January 21st 2020
- Video – 1080p
- Screen size – 2:39.1
- Sound – English: DTS-HD MA 5.1
- Subtitles – English SDH, Spanish
Extras
- none