Countdown (Jerusalem Countdown)

It's really hard to be objective here with a review. Basically what we have got here is right wing Christian propaganda with political overtones marauding as an action/thriller movie.

Throw in some of the worst acting imaginable, a script that is, well, what script? there is none. Add in no continuity and a director that didn't direct and you have the most painful 80 minutes of "entertainment" imaginable.

Now being brutally honest, don't bother with this one if you value your sanity because i was ready to tear my hair out after 30 minutes but had to persevere because i had no choice ( watch or make your dinner was the ultimatum)

I go by the gold standard, if it looks like a dog, barks like a dog and smells like a dog. Well, it's a dog.

I'm not a Christian but I'm willing to suspend disbelief for the sake of a good script. Show me Jesus turning water into wine or raising the dead, and if it's presented well and is well-intentioned, I'll buy it the way I'll buy a trip into the future or a haunted house. And I wanted to like this movie because I do believe in defending the world against those who believe that the worse it gets for ordinary people, the better it is for the cause of some self-righteous violent anti- Western revolution. But the conviction with which the characters-- and even the government-- are shown to accept Biblical prophecies, and not just the prophecies themselves but a particular leap of interpretation regarding the prophecies, doesn't get sold here. It's just stated. The action sequences are fine, but a little time should have been sacrificed for some explanation of a convincing, reasonably detailed parallel between prophecy and reality, and if that parallel doesn't exist in the real world (as I think it doesn't), then reality could have been fictionalized a little. Maybe the problem is that the movie didn't want to obviously fictionalize because it didn't want to look as if the point of view it promotes is based on a fiction.

A very pro-Christian flick. Bad acting, no storyline, no sequence of events, stock characters that do not fit in to the story. I could go on forever with the things that sucked about this movie forever. I could not stand watching it beyond 30 grueling minutes.

The makers of this movies might have had all the best of fundamentalist Christian intentions, but the baseline of the story seemed like mud- slinging at the Arabs nations. At one point it felt like was back to being a Christian seated in a church being told how the Islam is our problem.

Please do not watch this movie if you value your creativity or even mere common sense. These characters should not set a foot in front of a camera again.

Sorry to say, but this film is a sad, sad, sad production.

First, there are so many holes in the dramatization that it can hardly be counted as following any dramaturgical rules. Not having read John Hagee's book though, it is hard to say whether the film has raped the book or whether the book is equally bad.

Furthermore, the underlying theological understanding of several prophetic issues are so far of the mark - that anyone considering themselves as a born-again believer should stay clear of it, and even more, should not under any circumstances recommend the film (especially not to unbelievers)or buy it as a gift for anyone.

It is my sincere belief that this film will do more damage than it will do good. Stay clear!

Considering the fact that this film was probably shot on small budget and made by folks outside the mainstream of Hollywood studios, I think they did a good job. I expect the poor ratings are sour grapes at the religious overtones, which should have been anticipated given the premise of the film. I have paid much more to see big budget films at the theater that failed to meet even a modicum of entertainment value. Thankfully technology has advanced to the point that small efforts like this one can have a professional production quality rivaling that of the large studios and their ridiculous budgets. Film making is no longer the exclusive domain of the well financed. This film is worth the price of admission if only to stick it to the big guys who are rapidly losing their creative edge.