![]() The noise wakes up their father, Charlie (played by Matt Letscher) who invites Quinn to lay flowers on her mother’s grave over the weekend. Quinn tries to apologize but Jordan heads into her room. Her boyfriend quickly leaves and Jordan lashes out a Quinn for not being around the last six months. After finding her birth certificate, Quinn hears sounds coming from a closet and discovers her teen sister Jordan (played by Talitha Eliana Bateman) hiding in the closet with her boyfriend. Quinn drives to her parent’s home and we learn that her mother passed away which possibly caused some divide in the family. They also show she needs the birth certificate for I9 employment verification which means she can use a whole list of other things like, her driver’s license and social security card, or her passport but the movie needs to happen so forced family drama it is! It’s clear that Quinn doesn’t want to call her parents or go to the house. That night, Quinn is at her apartment filling out some documents for her employment and discovers she needs her birth certificate but left it at her parent’s house. Sullivan gets a bit handsy to her disgust. There’s then a quick scene of her in the elevator where Dr. Later as Quinn leaves the hospital, she downloads the app and discovers she has 2 days and 22 hours left to live. The woman almost immediately wakes up and survives. The group quickly help by administering Narcan, a drug that counteracts the effects of an overdose. The group is then interrupted by a man carrying a woman suffering from a drug overdose. Sullivan (played by Peter Facinelli), and Father David (played by Valente Rodriguez) about the app and they download it. As they have cake, Quinn tells the rest of her colleagues including Nurse Amy (played by Tichina Arnold), Dr. A few moments later Quinn’s colleagues celebrate her passing her test, now becoming a licensed nurse and an official employee of the hospital. Quinn tells Evan that the app must be fake and brings him back to his room. It’s not like you have surgery in 19 hours… oh wait.” He then reveals he also downloaded the app and only has 19 hours to live. She quickly finds him in a closed-off wing of the hospital that is currently under construction.Įvan tells her about Courtney and Quinn tries to console him. Quinn goes to check on him but discovers he’s missing from his room. We see that one of her patients is Evan who will be going into surgery the following day. Title card! Cut to our main character Quinn (played by Elizabeth Lail) arriving at work as a nurse in a hospital and going about her tasks. A tree branch has broken the windshield and impaled the seat where Courtney would have been sitting. Meanwhile, we see Evan has crashed his car and is badly injured. With 7 minutes left to live, Courtney rushes home which is literally like 2 blocks from the party.Īs her countdown reaches zero, Courtney is attacked and killed by an unseen force. ![]() Evan speeds off as Courtney’s phone goes off and we see the Countdown app has sent her a notification telling her she broke the User Agreement. Cut to later a few hours later and a very drunk Evan is about to drive Courtney home.Ĭourtney declines and Even gets insulted so she decides to walk home alone. Courtney’s boyfriend, Evan (played by Dillon Lane) comes to her rescue and drinks the drinks for her. Since Courtney is dying soon, that means she loses and has to drink all the alcoholic drinks. This is so far from a calorie-counting app that we can only assume Allie can’t read. The description also reads “If you could know exactly when you were going to die, would you want to know?”. Showing her phone we see Allie’s found the “Countdown” app and not the “Countdown to Skinny” app. One of the girls, Allie, quickly looks it up and asks if she found the right app. ![]() In the living room, Kate tells a group of her friends sitting around a table about an app called “Countdown to Skinny” that helps you keep track of your calories. The film opens at a house party with a bunch of teens. Overall you won’t leave Countdown too scared unless you recently downloaded an app that tells you when you’re going to die. You know when each character is going to die so those creepy scenes don’t really scare you because there’s no real danger but there are some effective jump scares. Surprisingly Countdown has some creepy tense scenes but unfortunately, because of the premise of the movie, you’re not too scared. When Quinn (Elizabeth Lail) downloads an app that countdowns to your death, she learns she has three days left to live and now must find a way to stop the curse behind the app. Today we’re looking at the 2019’s Countdown I love horror movies and if I’m going to watch them anyway, why not write an entertaining/funny review from the POV of an average movie-goer and not a professional critic.
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