“Check Point” (**1/2 out of four) was a richly told and engrossing small-town melodrama set in North Carolina about a local vagrant who discovers plans for an invasion of America but the local redneck sherriff (William Forsythe) dismisses his claims and has him locked up for loitering and it’s only after some increasingly strange occurrences that him, a former marine (Bill Goldberg), and others (Mindy Robinson, Kane Hodder, Fred Williamson) begin to gradually agree that something isn’t quite right. Not so much an action blowout as many might expect and not a total success but is a surprisingly well-told and well-acted story of Americana and how many in small-town U.S.A. might react (and overreact) to the threat of attack. Goldberg is rock-solid; Forsythe is good too in a role he can probably by now play in his sleep although his character’s explanation towards the end is laughable.

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