Two guns. Two best friends. And a pact to end their lives when the day is done.... (Full plot summary below)
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Two guns. Two best friends. And a pact to end their lives when the day is done.
Leave your thoughts about On the Count of Three.
| RogerEbert.comCarlos AguilarOn the Count of Three is a rousing tragicomedy that straddles a line between incredibly calibrated gallows humor and a devastating discourse on the burden of existence. |
| ObserverOliver JonesA gentle yet high-caliber mash-up of Sartre and Wes Anderson’s Bottle Rocket, Carmichael’s film is irreverent, serious, and heartrendingly sad in ways so crushingly honest that the unlikely outcome is spiritual uplift. |
| Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattThe movie settles into the blackest kind of buddy comedy — a lacerating slice of nihilism rooted in real despair, and real I-love-you-man tenderness too. |
| IndieWireDavid EhrlichLike a game of Russian roulette, this is a movie that would have seemed embarrassingly stupid if things had gone wrong. It’s a dangerous and somehow enjoyable movie that dances around the edge of an open wound from start to finish as it risks making light of the heaviest things that so many of its viewers will ever have to carry. But it’s exhilarating — a little at first, and then a hell of a lot — to see these characters find the kind of happiness worth dying for. |
| Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshThis is a definitive statement of what Carmichael can do as a director, transcending the small scope of the film into something grander and more epic. |
| SlashfilmEthan AndertonWhile these misadventures could have easily resulted in a more chaotic sort of indie that loses focus, they’ve kept the attention squarely on the characters and each part of this wild day serves their arc in some kind of meaningful way. Somehow, this movie makes light out of total darkness without losing any of the heaviness that comes with it. |
| Film ThreatLorry KiktaThe director, who also stars in the film, and his fellow lead Christopher Abbott, share amazing chemistry that turns any run-of-the-mill conversation into entertainment. |
| The Film StageJordan RaupEven if the last act doesn’t succeed as intended, On the Count of Three threads the difficult task of finding the humor in hopelessness while not exploiting the genuine pain of severe depression. |
| ConsequenceClint WorthingtonEven as On the Count of Three tumbles toward an ending as unpredictable as it is slightly unearned, the bones of its central performances and unabashed embrace of its concept keep you glued to the screen. |
| Movie NationRoger MooreNeither the subject nor the movie is for everyone. But On the Count of Three is a fascinating variation on a dark comedy theme, and its light touch with hidden depth is one of the most worthwhile farces about “the only serious question,” as Albert Camus famously put it — “whether or not to kill oneself.” |
