Summary
Why waste time talking when a two-by-four will get the job done just as well?
Walking Tall, the remake of the 1973 action film of the same name, features professional wrestler-turned-actor the Rock as a small-town sheriff who prefers to use a big wooden board to keep the peace -- even as he breaks his antagonists into pieces. The film, based on the true story of Tennessee sheriff Buford Pusser, is a crowd-pleaser -- if you're part of the crowd that likes to see the good guys win in less than 80 minutes and don't care about plot.See the full content of this document
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Walking Tall Minimalist Machismo
Perhaps realizing that the film's strengths were its quiet-hero- fighting-back theme and the Rock's authoritative presence, the filmmakers pared the story to the bone. They jettisoned the backsto...
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