This is all about car racing with plenty of intrigue and corruption, while the chief victim of it all actually is the reluctant murderer who is hired for some murky business that goes all wrong resulting in a massacre and a blown up car factory. That was not intended. The major part of the film is dedicated to a car race from Florence to Locarno in Switzerland, where all the drivers drive on like mad along slippery roads that should have caused at least one car accident. No deal. There is one car incident in the end but not because of high speed or risky roads but because the driver and his second start fighting in the middle of the drive, with one of them holding a gun. Of course it has to end up badly. The scenery is great, the music is fine, the story is somewhat exclusive for car racing enthusiasts, and the acting is all right. One driver is forced out of the game for being too intoxicated, but in reality it was Anthony Steel, the lead, who had problems with this. He survives, and the crooks end up as usual hoisted by their own petards, while the girl, refusing to marry Anthony Steel, perhaps changes her mind.
Review of Checkpoint
