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I don’t want to say this lightly: Countdown is the WWE Studios film we’ve always wanted.
Here’s the plot synopsis:
This electrifying thriller is directed by John Stockwell (Into the Blue) and written by Richard Wenk (The Equalizer). When a madman kidnaps a young boy and rigs him with explosives, Ray (Dolph Ziggler), haunted by the loss of his young son, defies his captain (Kane) and takes matters into his own hands. Now he must beat the clock to stop a psychopath and save an innocent child.
That sounds amazing by itself, but what it doesn’t tell you is that the threat is happening at a WWE live event. Yes, Lionsgate and WWE Studios finally figured out the magic combination: a movie that combines all the cheesy glory of a 1980s action film plus cameos from The Ascension. Seriously, the Ascension is in the trailer more than once. So are the Lucha Dragons. The New Day shows up, and tell me Big E wouldn’t make any movie you’ve ever seen a little better.
That all builds to the finale of the trailer, which I swear to God is Rusev in full gear holding a gun on Ziggler, and Ziggler countering it with a superkick. Read that sentence 20 times. It keeps getting better. RUSEV PULLS A GUN ON DOLPH ZIGGLER AND ZIGGLER SUPERKICKS HIM.
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This is a real thing in a movie. A glorious, glorious movie. If you haven’t already jumped on Amazon and pre-ordered five copies, I don’t know what’s wrong with you. April 5 can’t come soon enough.
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Gotta say, Kane as the beleaguered “Chief” character seems kinda great.
“The mayor’s gonna drag my ass through hellfire and brimstone if you don’t get in line!”
“It means he gets results, you stupid demon!”
“I’m the Devil’s Favorite Police Captain”
+1 to all of the above.
“Dammit Detective, sometimes I want to grab you by the throat and send you straight to literal Christian Hell! Luckily for you, I can control myself because of my excellent anger management doctor!”
“McMahon’s gonna have my ass for your shenanigans, Ziggler! 50 folding tables, 26 steel chairs, countless ladders…all destroyed!”
“But I caught the perp!”
“Yeah, thanks to you, we won’t be hearing from Cryme Tyme again.”
“…dammit, it’s just not fair…he was only three days away…from a World Heavyweight title shot at “Night of Champions”…free to view when you sign up for the Network at only $9.99 a month…”
Times must be tough for WWE Studios if they’re filming at their own house shows
I observed that, too.
PLEASE let this be the beginning to a new Lucha Underground style kayfabe.
This is it, the one thing that would make everything better.
+1,000,000 good sir.
Irony being, of course, Dolph was written out of the Rusev love quadrangle for a few weeks to make this. I cannot, however, accept a film in which New Day only cameo. Give them a screwball comedy at once.
Not that I particularly want to see it, but what happened to the film Lana and Edge were making about this time last year?
New Day start up an advertising agency…while babysitting the neighbor’s kid. And yes, they end up losing him.
And then they start a fight club with the kids they’re watching.
GIVE THIS A FUCKING OSCAR I AM DYING
The only — ONLY — thing I can think of for this plot is that they had zero ability to shoot elsewhere because of a microscopic budget, so they wrote it around a/the show.
if this doesn’t cross over with Sharknado then there is no king of kings…. or I mean Jesus
This looks fantastic.
I’m in.
Now I just desperately need a Bo Dallas & Curtis Axel buddy cop comedy.
“Not available in your country”. I’m in Vancouver. It was shot here. Get it together, Lionsgate!
Oh everything’s shot there
So many questions:
Did they just use the same 3 clips of the Ascension, Lucha Dragons,
and New Day?
Does Dolph Ziggler not exist in this movie’s WWE Universe?
Will Captain Kane drag prisoners to hell instead of to jail?
Is Hollywood Miz in this movie, making it even more meta?
Do we get a Best & Worst of “Countdown” AND of the matches in “Countdown”?
While we’re making things meta, will there be an in-movie With Spandex writing articles about the crazy stuff that happened at this show?
They need to have a Twin Dragons-type scene where Ray meets Dolph Ziggler and hijinks ensues.
Maybe this is a universe where only tag teams exist.
he barely exists in this universe :(
Dolph Ziggler does not exist in this universe.
However, Nicky from the Spirit Squad is the WWE Champion.
Confused? You won’t be after this episode of “Soap”!
I’d like to second having a Best & Worst of “Countdown” *eager and hopeful smile comes across face*
Man, I was just about to post this. Do these cops happen to be splitting images of Dolph and Kane? Will anyone acknowledge it? Will there be a point where Ziggler and Kane meet the characters they are playing in the movie as their wrestling personas?
well, thats corporate Kane… he could meet Demon Kane
RuRu’s got a gun….
Where does Rusev keep the gun?
The same place Archer hid the grenade and the gun.
This is bizarre
Bruh…
Look. Nothing can compare to a little film called NO HOLDS BARRED. So give up already.
is there any other way to watch the trailer?it’s not available here,and I’m dying to watch it!
Great movie, or greatest movie? Sharknado has some competition.
This will be the greatest movie to feature a fight scene at a wrestling event since Highlander.
+ only 1
I want a remake of the Room with Rusev as Johnny, Ziggler as Mark, and Lana as Lisa.
Kane is playing the grumpy black police chief. KANE IS PLAYING THE GRUMPY BLACK POLICE CHIEF. GOD BLESS THIS MOVIE
“I’ve jobbed too often for this shit.”
“I’ve jobbed too often for this shit…”
OH MY GOD THAT PICTURE OF RURU WITH A GUN THIS IS AMAZING
Rusev’s Got a Gun on Stone Cold Steve Austin Day
Rusev as a loose cannon?
Wait so do Dolph Ziggler and Kane just not exist in this version of the WWE Universe? Or is there some kind of BTTF Part 2-esque scene where Dolph Ziggler’s character meets the actual Dolph Ziggler and they both faint at the same time?
Ha! Didn’t even think of that, but probably. This seems like the type of “movie” that will definitely have at least one scene where we see two Dolph Ziggler’s.
1) I’ve watched this five times. Thank you. 2) I want to see pyro set up on each corner of his Police Chief desk.
I had no idea I needed this in my life.
I have yet truly live, it seems.
Holy hell. THIS IS AWESOME!
Literal Christian Hell.
“The uploader has not made this video available in your country.”
NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
Can we ask the real questions now?? Why isn’t Ziggler playing Patrick Swayze’s part in the new Point Break movie??? Let that awesomeness sink in.
Katharine Isabelle is in this? Holy crap…now I have to see it.
She’s a perfect fit for the wrestling world since she has 2 first names.
Katharine Isabelle is in the film. That’s all i needed to hear. I’ve watched so many bad movies just because she was in them.
This movie is still second to Sudden Death in terms of live sporting event action movies. Jean Claude Van Damme played goalie for the Penguins!!!