In Impact Point a professional volleyball player named Kelly Reyes (Melissa Keller) is on her way up in the AVP volleyball league. She is competing for the championship and has just received a new teammate in Jen Crowe (Kayla Ewell) after a fellow player is found dead, the result of an apparent hit and run accident. She also has caught the eye of a sports columnist (Brian Austin Green). It is not long before the two begin something of a romantic relationship. Trouble arises when her new boyfriend begins to act suspiciously and the columnist he said he was turns up missing. She tries to break it off with him, only to have him begin to stalk her, complete with cameras in her apartment. He vows to make it his mission to kill her for dumping him. Just how far will the obsessed fan go?
Impact Point is certainly cliched, there's no getting around it. Stalker films are a dime a dozen, especially ones like this that try and insert some erotic elements in an effort to attract a male audience that might otherwise avoid what is essentially another Lifetime made for TV movie in plot and execution. I say execution because the aforementioned erotic elements are so half-assed and bound to disappoint those looking for them as they are about the level of a TV show in risqueness (is that a word?). Countless shots of the volleyball players' butts is about as erotic as it gets.
The by-the-numbers nature of the film extends to the thriller aspects of the film as well. Director Hayley Cloake (The House of Usher) doesn't really even try to create a sense of mystery and intrigue to the film. Aside from a stupid as hell plot twist late in the game, Impact Point plays it straight, content to try and get by on scantily-clad volleyball players who aren't even that attractive and Brian Austin Green playing over-the-top crazy. Suffice to say, it does not work.
The acting is pretty awful across the board. Keller started her career as a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model and it shows. She can't act worth a lick. Resembling Rebecca Romijn's evil twin, she is consistently stiff and unconvincing no matter what mood her character is in. Her overacting when frightened has to be seen to be believed it's so laughable. Brian Austin Green alternates between overacting or near-comatose, just looking bored, biding his time before he can return to filming "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles."
Impact Point is the type of film that will seem better when it debuts on cable in a few months but that's not saying much. It is just another generic B-grade thriller waste of time that doesn't even deliver on its sliver of potential.
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