Came across this Check Point film a couple weeks ago and figured I’d give it a shot. Released nine years ago and starring Kenny Johnson and someone named *checks notes* Bill Goldberg, Check Point is your low-budget direct-to-video action schlock where a drifter who happens to be a former marine discovers a terrorist plot to overthrow a quaint American town and must convince some buddies to help him win back their country or something. Well, I know at least one group of people that might be interested in a film like this.
I am speaking of very patriotic Americans, of course.
I don’t know what you were thinking.
Check Point is one of those movies that would merit a short, quick review posting on IMDB and you’d move on to something else. To its credit, you’ve got some notable names on here including Kane Hodder (Jason in multiple movies), Tyler Mane (Sabretooth in X-Men), and William Forsythe (lots of bad guy roles). There’s also quite the playlist of licensed music from bands that I may or may not be familiar with that plays every so often because the filmmakers couldn’t be bothered to make their own.
The issue isn’t that Check Point isn’t a bad movie, but rather it’s a bad movie that’s also boring. The plot is non-existent, the acting is rather atrocious, the special effects and action bits are so bad that even Asylum films would come across as Marvel spectacles in comparison, and by the end of the movie, you wonder why anyone even wasted their time with this film. There is a nice tribute to the Marine Corps, but given the movie around it, you may as well as pop in a copy of The Marine starring John Cena if you wanted a good marine tribute.
All in all… not a good movie. Why did I even watch this?
