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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 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!

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

A number of the actors in this, actually have had good moments in their careers. None of them deserve to be in this jumbled mess. Forsythe in particular seems to be cashing a paycheck in this one, rather than trying to act. Part of the problem is the script is a mess. The story just isn't coherent, the bad guys' plans don't make sense, and nothing even tries to pass a reality check. Maybe the bad guy's lines are supposed to sound like rehashed rhetoric that compound dwelling morons parrot, but the hero's lines aren't any better.

The action is handled with very poor CGI, where the bullets look more like white blaster bolts than anything. The blood squib effect in particular is laughable.

Anyway, this seems to be one of the new slew of so-called action movies, that are done on a cheap budget, with almost no effort on anyone's part. Let's just short the draft of the script. We filmed the actors during the walk-through, and they did good enough. Oh, we'll add some bullet flashes in post, just pretend you got shot in the head. Back in the 80's and 90's this would barely qualify for direct-to-video. IF that's your thing then you're going to watch this no matter what the review says... If not, then avoid this movie.

Ok, so I thought with Kenny Johnson, Bill Goldburg, and William Forsythe being relatively known stars, this would have been a decent low budget movie. Wow. Was I wrong. The "Description" of the movie sounded intriguing. The part about "based on actual events"... ummm, I don't remember ever hearing about any of this stuff.

The depictions of law enforcement officers was abysmal. The portrayal of military troops was laughable. The addition of wrinkled old used to be 20 years ago "babes" dressed as s..t. (oh, I can't say that) and attempting to look like they knew anything about firearms was ridiculous. The fight scenes were lame, the fake firearm actions were stupid. The fake muzzle flash and tracer rounds made me laugh. I could go on and on. Bottom line, I kept watching only hoping it would get better to somewhat redeem my wasted time. However, that didn't happen. I'll never get that hour and a half of my life back.

Amazon prime strikes again at getting me to watch a crap movie.