stranger on the net

So you come back from the army after 8 years killing (where exactly?) and you go into the casino and start a fight – you get thrown out and beaten up, so of course you come back later with a 2-by-4 and smash up the place and the security. Then you go to trial, deny any guilt and get acquitted … AND elected Sheriff! Where? Only in Hollywood, and specifically in Walking Tall… and then the action starts! 3/5

The latest action caper from wrestling star “The Rock” , presumably a remake of the ‘73 movie with the same name based on actual events, it delivers what you would expect from a Hollywood B-movie. This is the kind of movie you would have expected from Schwarzeneger or Stallone back in the 80s mad days of action-fests, but unlike the old boys The Rock actually can speak and “fight”, and of course the production is updated for a slick Hollywood-2000 look.

For some reason the film’s love interest, dully played by Birds of Prey’s Ashely Scott, ends up in jeans, boots and a bra… that’s nicely done just stepping out of bed if you ask me – and I think there really was no reason for that beyond tempting the male-teen audience.

This isn’t the kind of movie you really award a star rating, but I guess it would earn 3 buckets of popcorn .

This entry was posted on Tuesday, August 17th, 2004 at 18:57 and is filed under at the movies.