Ticking Clock is a 2011 American mystery action thriller film directed by Ernie Barbarash.

The film stars Cuba Gooding Jr., with a supporting cast of Neal McDonough, Nicki Aycox and Austin Abrams.

[2] After killing a woman and cutting her open, Keech calms her crying baby boy.

Investigative reporter Louis has a rocky marriage to Gina, a girlfriend named Felecia, and a slumping career.

Louis' only evidence is a torn piece of Keech's coat, and a bloody fingerprint on a newspaper clipping.

James shows Louis a box with small animals that are dead and cut open.

Lewis is shocked and James, feeling betrayed, starts yelling, sending Louis away.

Keech tells Louis he killed his abusive mother (the woman from the first scene) with the intention of changing his traumatic childhood.

However, he further reveals that each change has simply resulted in another change, relentlessly steering Keech to his original horrific past: his teacher's actions condemned him to a similar fate, and after killing his teacher, a prosecuting attorney repeated the cycle, and now Polly will ultimately condemn James (young Keech) to yet another grim fate.

Dread Central panned the film, saying that it was a "fairly iffy serial killer thriller with a few decent moments and an intriguing but otherwise underdeveloped conceit behind its killer's modus operandi; the insulting ending left me wishing I could have turned the clock back and gotten those 100 minutes back.