Walking Tall A Movie Review	MPAA Rated - PG-13 It's 1:27 Long A Review by The Dude on the Right

As Dwayne Johnson continues his quest to be the next action hero, this time he takes on the role of Buford Pusser in a remake of the original "Walking Tall," only he changes his name to Chris Vaughn because what half black, half Samoan would be named Buford. Anyway, he’s back from his tour of duty with the Army Special Forces only to find his hometown has been turned into a cesspool thanks to one of his high school rivals, Jay Hamilton (Neal McDonough). It seems in the eight years Chris has been gone Jay has realized he is part Native American, opens a casino, becomes a drug dealer, pays off the cops, and gets the lumber mill closed down so he can control the town and ride around in his Cadillac Escalade. Well, Chris comes back, finds out that his job prospects at the mill are gone, and when his nephew has a crystal-meth overdose, well, Chris goes after Jay. Alright, he doesn’t really go after Jay, more his casino and henchmen, and now the crooked sheriff locks up our hero. But is any jail large enough for Chris? Not when you use the defense that if you are acquitted of busting a bunch of skulls and trashing a man’s business that you will run for sheriff and clean up the town.

So now Chris is the sheriff, and it’s him against Jay and his men, including the old sheriff. Who do you call for help? Why, your old high school buddy, Ray, played fabulously by Johnny Knoxville, who if I might say is really showing himself to be a decent actor and not just a wacky Jackass kind of guy. Anyway, their mission, track the drug operation because that’s the only thing that could get Jay taken down. People get shot, a truck blows up, but in the end it’s all about the big stick that Chris carries.

Enough plot, is the movie any good? Umm, if you just want to see Dwayne kick a lot of ass, the movie is fabulous, and if you want to see Ashley Scott (she plays Deni, Chris’ love interest) running around, avoiding getting shot, in some tight jeans and a sexy red bra, then this is the movie for you. If you want some overblown movie with no real sense of logic to it, then this movie is also for you. But if you’re looking for an intelligent storyline, believable scenes, and a logical trial scene, you’d better be renting "A Few Good Men." Sadly this isn’t really a movie to show Dwayne’s acting skills combined with fun action, nope, that was done with "The Rundown." "Walking Tall" is really a movie where he gets to just be a bad-ass.

In the end I was entertained, but not to the extent I would put this movie on a priority list to see. It’s 2 ½ stars out of 5 for "Walking Tall." A little bit more intelligent script rather than Chris and Jay falling three or four stories through the lumber mill, crashing into numerous pipes and objects on the way down, and all that really happens is Chris gets a busted up knee would have helped.

That’s it for this one! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!