Countdown: Armageddon
Countdown: Armageddon
| 24 February 2009 (USA)
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A journalist searches for her daughter as a series of catastrophic disasters push a destabilized society toward the brink of global war.

Reviews
Maz-hell

It is an Asylum film. With Nazis at the center of the earth and Sharknado I know I should not expect a good movie. Funny, brainless films are the seal of this company. This one is horrible even by those standards (none).I had no moment of entertainment: The dialog is bad, the screenplay is bad, the deus-ex-machina (machinas? machinus? machini?) are bad, the acting was kinda trying, the audio was so overly imposed that you could barely hear the dialog, the plot is astoundingly incomprehensible... Only one or two scenes are kinda redeemable and both of them are completely inconsequential.This movie even have a 35 minute sequence that adds absolutely nothing. When almost a third of your movie can be skipped with you losing nothing you know you have a bad movie.Say yes to drugs if you want to watch this movie. Yes to all the drugs.

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Leofwine_draca

Undoubtedly the worst film that The Asylum have ever been connected with, COUNTDOWN: ARMAGEDDON is a faith-based end-of-the-world disaster flick in which the world is being gradually destroyed by a series of natural disasters. Into this mayhem comes a woman searching for her missing daughter, aided by a man who might or might not be an angel. This was made by Faith Films, and unsurprisingly turns out to be concentrated on delivering a pro Christian message. It's thus worthy and dull, lacking even the usual CGI assisted mayhem of this genre, and quite without merit.

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mr-aquarius

Simple and straightforward: The end just fell flat. Now, if they had built the plot so that we cared about the main character, that would be fine. But, the filmmakers' inability to build suspense is what completely drowned the whole thing. In her attempt to find her daughter, the main character relies on the help of a variety of people in the U.S. and Israel. None of the actors were at all engaging, and the only one who actually seemed to be able to portray true emotion was the hotel clerk. He may have been my favorite character. The appearance of all the other characters seemed more random than mysterious.There have been other comments regarding the inaccuracy of how Israel was portrayed in this film. If the settings and the people of the Middle East were maligned by the filmmakers, then that's an even greater shame upon this cinematic waste of time.You're better off watching re-runs of your favorite TV show that you've seen ten times already than waste your time on this film.

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MisterWhiplash

I rented Countdown: Jerusalem as a fun-bad movie. Maybe I would get some totally ridiculous machines or things that kill or some wretched dialog and performances to mock, like the Day the Earth Stopped (also released by Asylum video). But no, this shouldn't be confused with a 'pedigree' piece of s*** like a C. Thomas Howell movie. No, as I should've known better, this is from Faith Films, and the feature debut of A.F. Silver (nay another film on his IMDb resume - dare I ask what the follow-up is?), and it has nothing of value for bad-movie fans. Nothing. There's barely a laugh to be had, except maybe for the dialog exchange from Kim Little's Alison: "The phone lines are down. Mark called." All you need to know (or all I really knew watching) is this: woman's daughter is taken by husband to Jerusalem, and she spends the movie looking for her. That's it. Oh, and there's a bunch of fuzzy scenes of "Peace in the Middle East" being broken down by earthquakes and, um, no peace in the Middle East. It's not even a movie that has enough guts to really go down its kooky plan. It's another lump of cinematic mediocrity where you almost can't hate it (almost the key word) since it's a transparent production. The acting is of the worst popular tripe, its methods are sloppy and its conclusions highly questionable (like, um, the world ends and the daughter is found? this isn't a spoiler per-say, I'm still trying to figure out what happens). When a movie is so bad it becomes mock-proof, you might as well torch it and leave the metal scraps for the garbage disposal. Oh, and did I mention Alison's looking for her daughter? YOU NEVER HEAR THE END OF IT!!

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