We've tried using checklists a bit for code review, and hit the problem that our checklists would be pretty much guaranteed to have at least one item that was arguably inapplicable to the changeset. So you'd have some changeset that was very small, or not contain UI elements, or did contain UI elements, or was related to build tools, and so on.

And so we'd get into a situation where we'd have to decide whether a particular item was even applicable or not, which somewhat defeats the point of checklists, since you're supposed to be able to decide immediately whether an item is satisfied or not.