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Walking Tall
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MPAA RATING: PG-13 for sequences of intense violence, sexual content, drug material and language
Starring The Rock, Neal McDonough, Johnny Knoxville, John Beasley, Barbara Tarbuck, Kristen Wilson, Khleo Thomas, and Ashley Scott
A retired U.S. Special Forces soldier returns to his hometown to renew old relationships and make a new life for himself. But while he was away, his boyhood town wasted away to a dilapidated, crime-ridden shell of itself. (MGM)
| GENRE(S): | Action | Adventure | Crime | Drama |
| WRITTEN BY: |
David Klass
Channing Gibson David Levien Brian Koppelman |
| DIRECTED BY: | Kevin Bray |
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: September 28, 2004 Video: September 28, 2004 Theatrical: April 2, 2004 |
| RUNNING TIME: | 105 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: | USA |
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The average user rating for this movie is 5.7 (out of 10) based on 17 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Michael M. gave it a 5:
Entertaining, but the writing really stinks! The Rock makes for a good bad ass good guy. He has such great screen presence, he reminds me of Arnold Schwazenegger in his prime. The movie isn't too great though, kind of average really. Thumbs down.
Steve T. gave it a 3:
This new "pop culture" version is way too short. It's disapointing that people today have such a sort attention span, we can't watch a movie that does not progress very quickly or last longer than 2 hrs?! So let me get this right, the whole town was cleaned up in a weekend? I was able to watch the original version and I found it more exciting and dramatic. I'd put a 2x4 to this picture and a 10 to the original!
Jermaine B. gave it a 9:
This movie was a fun action flick and one of the better movies I've seen this summer. Its a slam bam thank you ma'am without all of the BS that alot of movies are doing nowaday I.E. Matrix (what is choice) enough with the brew haha we wanna see some butt Kicking. Much props to the Rock.
Chad S. gave it a 3:
You know it's The Rock's movie because we never get a clear look at the girl in the red bra shoot her gun. The action scenes belong to the star. She can be proactive in her underwear, but not that proactive. Categorically, you don't write off a film like this for wanting to be a piece of fluff, but they're not even trying. "Walking Tall" is so lazy, they forget to write the scene in which the hero gets his family out of town, in a concentrated effort by four scribes to keep the running time down.
Mark B. gave it a 2:
This remake of 1973's classic cult action film about the life of legendary take-no-prisoners Southern sheriff Buford Pusser's war on crime and corruption isn't this year's worst movie--just its most unnecessary. Even diehard ACLU afficionados should appreciate the passion and the fury behind Phil Karlson's original and in Joe Don Baker's electric lead performance. Anything prickly or edgy about the 1973 film (for example, the fact that Pusser was a devoted family man but was undeniably attracted to a casino waitress; here the sheriff isn't even married) is totally deleted; the result is a professional but totally generic piece of product. The Rock admittedly had displayed charisma onscreen in The Scorpion King and The Rundown, but compared to Baker, he comes off here as nothing more impressive than The Pebble. Most disconcerting of all is that the original's theme of the entire community taking a stand is nowhere to be found here; the predictable army of one superheroics are no substitute at all. Ultimately, the violence level is the only element the two films share; even so, the original was bloody, raw and messy--this one's is PG-13 slick. But speaking of that rating, adolescent boys, take heart: this movie provides you with a rare opportunity to see your first lapdance!
Blizzard Bob gave it a 10:
Dude the ones who gave this movie a bad rating have to watch this movie more closely. People were getting busted open by the rock. If u care more about the plot of the movie more than explosions and ass whopping than ur not a man. Come on people this is a mans movie. And to Kevin F. i'm a huge wrestling fan and huge fan of this movie and my IQ is 116 and that's above average. And i'm only 14.
Pat C. gave it a 1:
Sure I get off on an occasional violence flick if it's not too dumbed down and the hero has a little class. But here apparently it is simply a lot of fun to blow big bullet holes in folks that deserve it. That's not right, I don't find it entertaining, and without a little more justification for such savage behavior I don't even think it's cute. Christ, the critics rated this bloodbath the same as the Christ bloodbath. I guess any bloodbath gets mixed reviews, whether it's human garbage or the son of God getting blown away.
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