Countdown Movie Review

Countdown
PG-13 2019

Thriller/Horror ‧ 1h 31m
82% liked this movie

What is it about?

The movie opens with a group of friends at a party drinking. They start talking about an app called Countdown, which predicts when you are supposed to die. One by one they start sharing the death dates they were assigned. However, one of the friends, Courtney, gets an assigned death time of later that night.

Can you download this app on your mobile phone?

Theis Countdown death app is trending at the #1 spot in the USA iOS app store. The Countdown Movie app is for entertainment purposes only. The app is available for Android and iOS. The Countdown movie application contains vibrations, sounds, music, and use of your iPhone torch in order to create the horror experience.

The “Countdown” app is very simple: you download it to your phone, and it gives you a countdown that reveals when you are going to die. Most people discover they’ve got decades left to live and go on about their days. But some people find out they’ve only got a few days or even hours, so they panic and try to change their destiny.

Short Overview

At a party, a teenager named Courtney is convinced by her friends to download Countdown, an app that predicts how long a user has left to live. Courtney downloads the app and is startled that she has only 3 hours to live. After avoiding getting into a car with her intoxicated boyfriend Evan, Courtney receives a notification stating that she has broken the “user agreement”. Before you download the countdown app it gives you an agreement paper that you must read. You can either agree or disagree with the paper. Returning home, she is attacked by an unseen killer as her timer reaches zero. At the same time, Evan crashes and a tree branch goes right through where Courtney would have sat
Quinn Harris, a nurse that works at the hospital, an injured Evan is admitted. Quinn stumbles across Evan in a closed-off wing of the hospital where he tells her about Courtney and his suspicions about the app. He also reveals that he downloaded it and it states that he will die at the time he is due to go into surgery. Quinn is in disbelief of his claims but eventually downloads the app right after her co-workers download it. She is horrified to learn that it says she has only three days left. Evan later skips his surgery and is informed that he has violated the user agreement of the app. He is confronted by a demonic version of Courtney and is killed shortly after.
They consult a priest named Father John who states that the app’s code may help them. They hack into the code with the help of a phone salesman and learn that Jordan has downloaded the app and is due to die shortly before Quinn. With the help of Derek, a cellphone shop employee, they hack the app to add more years to all three of their life spans. Later, Quinn is attacked by the demon later that night and the countdowns revert to their original times.
After Jordan is attacked by the demon who takes the form of her mother, they consult Father John again who identifies the demon’s name as Ozhin and before theorizing that the curse can be broken. If someone dies before their countdown ends or lives after. The countdown timer only needs to be beaten by one second, then they’ll win. They prepare a warding circle to protect them from the Ozhin’s attacks, but Matt is lured out by the Ozhin taking the form of his brother.
The Ozhin prepares to kill Jordan as her timer runs out but Quinn overdoses on drugs, sacrificing herself to destroying the Ozhin. Jordan notices that Quinn has written something on her arm where she drew herself a circle and the word “Narcan”. Jordan revives her by syringe with Naloxone and the duo succeed as the countdown timers for them both stop.
Later, Quinn, Jordan and their father visit their mother’s grave. As they leave, they hear news about Sullivan’s arrest after more nurses came forward and told similar stories of sexual assault. Quinn discovers an update of the app Countdown 2.0 has downloaded itself onto her phone.
In a scene where Derek is on a Tinder date. While his date goes to the bathroom Derek’s phone buzzes, he looks at it and the Countdown app says he has broken the user agreement. The lights in the restaurant go out before he is killed by the unseen Demon.