Review of Countdown

 

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Countdown is an American supernatural horror movie written and directed by Justin Dec and released in 2019. In this chiller, a group of hard-working people find an app that tells them when they're going to die. 

At a party, a teenager named Courtney (Ann Winters) is in peer-pressured into downloading an app called Countdown that tells her when she'll die. It gives her three hours to live. No biggy, she'll just refuse to go with Evan (Dillon Lane), her boyfriend, into his car, as he's drunker than Cootie Brown, therefore outsmarting the app and changing her destiny. Or so it seems. But Courtney receives a message on her app that says she's broken the user agreement. At home, she's killed by an unseen phantom as her time runs out. Then Evan crashes his car. A branch impales the seat where Courtney was supposed to sit.

Evan Rachel Wood lookalike Quinn Harris, our good-hearted angel-of-mercy protagonist (Elizabeth Lail), disbelieves Evan's claim that the app accurately products one's death. Evan skips his surgery at the hospital and is told he's violated the user agreement. Then he tries to escape the hospital but is haunted by Courtney's ghost and is killed by the entity. 

Nurse Quinn enters the morgue and finds out Evan's time ran out on the app. Unfortunately having downloaded the app herself, she is given a short time and refuses to go with her family to her mother's grave, trying to change her fate. Again, the messages comes: you've violated the user agreement. She destroys her phone, gets a new one, then finds the app has downloaded itself.

After she escapes an attack of a demonic entity in the parking lot of the cell phone store, she meets young Matt (Jordan Calloway), whose Countdown app says he'll die in eighteen hours. This is when they learn the countdown's broken if the user tries to change the future. Then Doctor Sullivan (Peter Facinelli) sexually harasses her, then tricks the hospital staff into thinking it was the other way around. 

Quinn and Matt find Father John (P.J. Byrne), who figures out the app is linked to a demon named Ozhin, previously summoned by a Roma woman who told a prince when he'd die. Quinn and Matt meet again with the Padre and find if someone else dies before their countdown ends, they get to live. 

Time for Quinn to give comeuppance to Doc' Sullivan.

If you haven't seen this gem yet, enjoy!