Tae Geon-ho (Jeong Jae-yeong), the hero of Countdown, is a disturbed man — an unsmiling collections agent who desperately needs a liver transplant and is haunted by the death of his son whose particulars he can't remember. Yet despite all those details, he's infinitely less complicated than his primary foil, Cha Ha-yeon (Jeon Do-yeon) — a shameless grifter, just out of the clink, who was the lucky recipient of Tae's son's donated heart which makes her a perfect candidate to donate her liver. Does this qualify as karma? It might although Huh Jung-ho's thriller, let's you decide for yourself.
Because before the surgical date, Cha has her own business to attend to which leads to car chases, kidnapping, heists, extortion, and fisticuffs involving a taser. Given the protagonist's cold manner, you may be excused for not giving a damn whether he gets the life-saving replacement or not but your indifference has no bearing on the tension. If anything, the flaws of the two leads create an openness to whatever the future holds, a long as one of them proves victorious. The real enemies are bumbling gang-members, a sadistic mafia boss (Lee Kyeong-yeong), and a quack physician who thinks that the most reliable cure for a life-threatening disease is to laugh, laugh, laugh.
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