Sorry, this movie sucks

Great Film overall

A Masterpiece!

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

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.

When I read the DVD box of the movie, I saw that it was made by "Faith Films", which gave me a big clue as to what the quality of the movie would be like. (Let's face it, most movies made by religious filmmakers are pretty bad.) Had I known before watching the movie that Faith Films was an offshoot of the notorious studio The Asylum, I would have had an even better idea of what I was going to witness.To be fair, this Christian movie doesn't keep hitting the viewers' heads with "messages", instead for the most part by taking the portion of the Bible that deals with the last days and handling it as both an unfolding mystery and an end-of-the-world movie. Though if you are not familiar with what the Bible says about the last days, you will be confused by several parts of the movie. Even if you are familiar with the Bible, there are still a number of non-religious parts of the script that are confusing! For what was obviously a very low budget, the filmmakers managed to do some things well. It's decently shot, the CGI is pretty good for a cheapie movie, and they managed to shoot a lot of the movie on authentic Israeli locations. But the low budget keeps showing throughout, with liberal use of stock footage and scenes with no extras in the background.The main problem with the movie is that there's no spark to it. Although the acting isn't awful, there's no passion, no conviction to the words the actors speak. The unfolding story moves extremely slowly, and there's never any excitement, tension, or thrills.While this isn't the worst effort by The Asylum, it's still pretty dreary and cheap. I bought this movie and three other Asylum movies in a 4-movie DVD pack for just $5, and though this movie's share is $1.25, I still feel ripped off.

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!!

Countdown: Jerusalem is a pretty typical apocalyptic thriller. It is well made in the sense, that it kept me entertained for the whole 90 minutes. The story is about woman who loses her daughter and how she tries to find her, simple as that, and a little bit about how the world in going to end. So it is made by and for those, who live with God. It tries to teach great divine moral, but finds only confusion. And it's Godliness is, well let's say, quite interesting. The evil is not anymore the UN but EU, I think, it is one of the many things that, I suppose, the makers, when trying to keep the plot mysterious, did not enlighten us viewers enough, which is normally a good thing, but me being a outsider in their world, would have liked an explanation what is the truth according to them. So it is entertaining, the plot is like a fast train if you don't mind the absence of logic, and, for them who don't take the world too seriously, amusing. The one's who pray a lot, might find it also meaningful.