Monday 5 July 2010

Walking Tall (2004) 6/10

Starring : The Rock, Johnny Knoxville, Neal McDonough, Ashley Scott
Director : Kevin Bray
Running Time : 83 mins

Former US soldier Chris Vaughn (The Rock) returns to his home town to find that the local mill has been closed down and replaced with a crooked Casino where people are regularly swindled out of the hard earned cash. When he tries to make a stand he is assaulted and ends up on trial for attacking his aggressors. When he is found not guilty, he decides to run for Sheriff and make a start cleaning up the town.

Basically this is another version of Rambo, except without the post-traumatic stress. At times it feels like it would have worked better as a mini-series rather than a movie so that the writers could have explored the characters more, but the short runtime results in a rushed court case scene and some pretty ridiculous behaviour from the previous sheriff and his deputies, as well as the folk who claim to run the town.

You’ll like this if you liked : First Blood



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