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Part of me was intrigued before watching 'Check Point'. It sounded interesting with a great concept, but it did look like a not very well made, ridiculous and by the numbers film with not particularly good actors so there was a little apprehension. Saw 'Check Point' anyway out of curiosity, being intrigued by the idea and having been a lot of low-budget films recently (most not very good to put it lightly).

'Check Point' managed to be worse than expected, even with mixed expectations. It started off pretty badly, got even worse quickly and never recovered. It picks up marginally at the end, when it gets a little more eventful and wasn't as dull. Sadly that's saying little, it feels too late when that happens and the climax is badly bungled and clumsy.

On a visual level, 'Check Point' looked shoddy. Drab and simplistic, with haphazard editing, far from slick photography and very artificial-looking visuals on the whole. The scenery is one of the two least bad aspects of the film, but the low budget look of everything else in the production values makes it difficult to appreciate.

The sound is intrusive and obvious, making a waste of the other least bad aspect of the film (the music, which is a little more than the one-note, repetitive stuff it could have been) and the direction has no sense of atmosphere or pacing, nothing to be thrilled by and nothing much engaging.

Script is awkward-sounding and ponderous, with lines that do make one cringe. A lot of it is gibberish and juvenile, with a stilted improvisatory feel that shouldn't have made it past draft stages.

On top of that, the story goes through the motions with no tension, suspense or thrills, a lot of intelligence-insulting ridiculousness, implausibility and pacing so dull that it makes a reasonably short length much longer. It is very derivative and parts also felt incomplete. The action sequences are more preposterous and by the numbers than they are thrilling or fun. The terrible way they look also hinder them.

Characters are basically every stereotype in the book it seems and are one-dimensional caricatures with no likeability or development and with the inability to behave logically. The acting is very poor all round, even from those who have been in films for years and in roles they should have been perfect for.

In summary, very poor. 2/10 Bethany Cox

This is quite possibly the most disgraceful, unrealistic film I've ever seen in my life depicting military in general, let alone my proud Corps. Trust me skip this.

I don't know any other way to put it. This movie isn't just bad, it's shockingly bad. It's wonderful in it's horribleness.

The raw acting talent of the foliage on the set are matched only by Mindy Robinson's cleavage.

The special effects are so bad that it makes a low-budget SciFy channel movie look like the latest Roland Emmerich mega flick.

And the dialog, well, I think I can give it a pass based on the assumption that each scene was written by a different person just minutes after the previous scene was shot.

All of this could be forgiven were it not for the fact that the entire story is just disjointed, doesn't resolve anything, and didn't appear to be going anywhere anyway.

This was by far the worst movie I have ever watched. I was bored and it was on Netflix. But dude!!!!! Just awful. Whoever rated this movie as 10's clearly are morons or they worked on the film and trying to boost the rating. The movie is just non stop stupid. If I could give it a negative number I would. It's just really bad. Not a single person in this movie should ever be in another movie and they should be ashamed for making this one. It's just so awful, makes no sense, and is a complete waste of time.

This film is so bad that it must have been made this bad on purpose. If you watch it from that perspective it is actually pretty funny. Grab your favorite drug of choice and let the laughs begin!

Lol I don't know why did I watched untill the end, this is worseeeeee movie ever made.

I gave it four stars, because the cast was not-too-bad. Lots of pretty women as eye candy. They also provided several cat fights. At the one hour mark, all the Doctor Jekylls turn into Mister Hydes. The war begins. The action gives us relief from the bad script. And then it ends. Seen on Tubi, the free streaming site, which has some older theater films, lots of DVD indies, and now, some live TV.

I'm off with a snapped Achilles' tendon so I have time on my hands. However watching this disjointed pile of cat sick was not time well spent. Bizarre, bonkers and bloody awful!

OK, so the wife and I got this on demand and for an indie film I have to say, it was better than I expected! I'm a big Bate's Motel fan and Kenny Johnson really delivers! He carries the film really well and gives a very emotional performance. It suffers from a few plot holes, repeated scenes and some cheesy dialogue but overall, it delivers the goods. Happy with my purchase!

I think most of the reviews were unfair This movie was not that bad and actually made you laugh at times IMDB should have rated a little higher than they did

This was a terrible movie. I was browsing Netflix for something to watch. Saw this was set in NC and thought it might be interesting. I usually like movies "inspired by actual events". I have no idea what actual events this was based on but it was so far fetched that it was laughable. I liked the familiar backgrounds - but that was all. The acting was terrible, the plot was lame, I still can't figure out why the random couple was killed... It was offensive to Asian women with the terrible stereotyping. I can't say enough about how bad this was. Music was OK?

So the story line is good... I am always up for a military based movie... However the acting is a bit "B" rated....

i never saw a movie as stupid as this one. It would look much better if this movie was a cartoon. i never saw a movie as stupid as this one. It would look much better if this movie was a cartoon. i never saw a movie as stupid as this one. It would look much better if this movie was a cartoon. i never saw a movie as stupid as this one. It would look much better if this movie was a cartoon.

yeah... many things that's wrong right there, this movie just like a comic with wrong stories :D look to rebecca costume, is she want to go to war or what? she and tj leave Roy's body and run to American flag, is it team mate doing when got sad because their friend just death? look for the army, came by choppers, they leave all of them without try to save any body who get hurts. and many more. overall.. this film just send the budget to a garbage :D

This is quintessential B-movie stuff, you just now it after a few minutes. It is sometimes sad watching some pretty good actors interacting in endless dialogues playing various tragic lowlife characters in some random tragic small town. Why the heck doesn't Kenny Johnson wash himself in the ocean you kinda ask yourself. Anyway the most interesting part is that the script and the conspiracy plot is completely bat**** crazy. The people who have written this material and/or financed this must be completely out of their mind. It is some kind of crazy christian people involved in this stuff. I kinda wonder about the actors too.

Even though it says based on real events THIS film was an atrocity at the highest level. The plot was decent as we seem to be dealing with things of this nature in the here and now, the editing was shoddy and very soft, the special effects were atrocious and the fight sequences looked phony.

The acting was definitely closed off from being anything but the word "ACT". My god a grouping of pets could do a better job. I was highly disappointed in the film as a whole. I watched it for 2 reasons both being Kenny Johnso and Goldberg.

The other user comments here have stated in many ways how bad this movie is, that I wonder if I can say anything new. I'll give it a try. First of all, if you sit down to watch this movie expecting a lot of action, you'll be very disappointed. After the opening action sequence (which is repeated later in the movie!), there is no real action again until almost 50 minutes later. From that point on, there is some action, but it's choreographed and directed so plainly that there isn't the least amount of excitement coming from it. A bigger problem with the movie is the script. The story is incredibly slow-moving, for one thing, taking much too long to set things up and present the problem to the protagonists, one reason being that there are far too many characters the script feels need to be there. What little story there is also happens to be pretty stupid at times; the ultimate plan of the bad guys gets more absurd the more you learn about it and think about it. Also, the production values are pretty rock bottom for the most part, not just with the most unconvincing CGI blood splatter in motion picture history. I normally find something to like in most B movies, but with this one, I am really hard pressed to think of anything remotely positive.

As duly noted in most prior reviews, a recipe of bad dialogue, cheesy plot, and acting that appears to be straight out of childhood summer camp skits, this film begs for the sarcastic humor of a peanut gallery in the style of Mystery Science Theatre 3000.