On the Count of Three is a 2021 American dark comedy drama film directed by Jerrod Carmichael (in his feature directorial debut) and written by Ari Katcher and Ryan Welch.

It stars Carmichael and Christopher Abbott as two best friends who make a suicide pact and spend their final day taking care of unfinished business.

Despite being offered a promotion, depressed mulch factory worker Val tries to kill himself in a toilet stall at work by strangulating himself, but stops when his annoying co-worker enters the restroom singing "It's a Great Day to Be Alive" to himself.

Val breaks up with his girlfriend, Natasha, and quits his job, then helps his best friend Kevin escape from the psychiatric hospital in which he was placed three days earlier, after a suicide attempt.

A fight breaks out between the father and son, during which Lyndell beats Val severly, before Kevin can knock him out from behind with a tire iron and they leave, after stealing 2300 dollars from the register.

The website's critics consensus reads, "It's occasionally uneven, but On the Count of Three finds director/star Jerrod Carmichael attempting an ambitious blend of drama and dark comedy—and often succeeding.

"[10] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 74 out of 100, based on 24 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.

[11] David Ehrlich of IndieWire gave the film an A− and wrote, "Like 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.

"[12] Benjamin Lee of The Guardian gave the film 3/5 stars and said, "While it's ultimately a little too messy to work quite as well as it could have, given the interesting and ambitious ingredients, On the Count of Three is proof that Carmichael is a director to be excited about, hoping that perhaps he finds time to write his next script himself.