Jerusalem Countdown
August. 26,2011 PG-13When nuclear weapons are smuggled into America, FBI Agent Shane Daughtry is faced with an impossible task -- find them before they are detonated. The clock is ticking and the only people who can help are a washed up arms dealer, a converted Israeli Mossad Agent and a by-the-book CIA Deputy Director.
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everything you have heard about this movie is true.
A Masterpiece!
Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.
This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
In its favour this film does open with a hook . A man stand in the middle of the street , sirens are blaring over the soundtrack and emergency vehicles are crashing in to each other and a helicopter crashes . Worst of all clothes fall from the sky , yes clothes including a cheap pair of denim jeans and it's not everyday a clothes are used as iconography for impending disaster . I can guarantee this is the greatest film I have ever seen where the stunt crew involves a pair of Wranglers . Now that's not to say JC ( Oh check those initials) is a great film because it's not . It is however a completely deranged one made for religious maniacs involving religious maniacs and because of this it gives a secular audience much entertainment though one suspects this wasn't the aim of the producers The plot is low grade Tom Clancy type thriller where a bunch of terrorists sneak in to America with some nuclear missiles and it's up to some Bible basher feds to stop them . Okay you've seen it all before and this might have rendered the movie a little bit mundane , but remember this is not a mundane film featuring generic villains - this is a film where Matalan clothes racks are providing the stunts . As it transpires the bad guys are a combination of Iranians and Russians who want to destroy America and Israel . Make no mistake here - I'm not saying it's Iranian and Russian terrorists who are behind it but the Iranian and Russian governments . Considering a lot of Chechens can testify that the Russian government isn't exactly pro-Muslim why would the Russians and Iranians be in cahoots with one another ? It also ignores the fact that as many as one million Israelis were born in Russia or are first generation Russians though to be fair Israel has been a friend for people wanting to escape Russia rather than a friend of Russia itself so I guess we can ignore this plot turn . What is more difficult to ignore is the factual errors such as the Israeli premier stating "Israel gave up land for peace during the Reagan administration" Hmmm If he's referring to Israel giving the Sinai Peninsula back to Egypt then this took place in 1979 when Begin and his Likud party was in power and Carter was US president but I guess there isn't too many Democrat party members working on this movie and leads me to wonder how much else is factually wrong ? But it's not really a film where you're supposed to think for yourself but anything film that has a pair of jeans steal every scene it's in can't be all bad . Can it ?
Pretty good action film. My only problem is at the end a lot of people just vanish from earth, and their clothes are left here. There is no such word as "Rapture" in the Bible. It came from a dream in 1832 from an 18 year female mental patient in Scotland who had a dream, and didn't even believe it herself. Two preachers heard about it and started the whole fly away theory. Most churches around me teach it now. As it says in the Bible, the traditions of man make void the word of God. In the King James Version, in Ezekiel chapter 13, God makes it clear not to teach the fly away doctrine. If you have a NIV bible, it says birds fly away. Kennites, or sons of Cain, got their hands in it. we have to be here to stand up before the other Christ, who claims that he is the annointed one, If we all flew away, who yould stand up against him, letting God's Spirit speak through us, so that even the naysayers might be amazed. Wrong teaching like the Left Behind films, but can make you think about the reality there was and is a real Jesus Christ, and he did come here to die for us, and if we believe in him we can have eternal life. God bless us all, it is a hard row to plow.
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.
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.