Another Questionable Movie Choice - Walking Tall

If only to even the balance between artsy films and Hollywood schlock in our weekend, we opted to watch Walking Tall on Showtime yesterday, while awaiting the season finale of The L Word. Those of you who wish not to be spoiled, stop reading. For the rest of you, here's basically what happens: The Rock plays Chris Vaughn, a young man returning from the army to find that a lot has changed in his small town. As he walks down the street, he sees a mother buying drugs in the alley and, worse, finds that the sawmill he loved so much as a child, has closed. After playing a game of touch football with his buddies - who happen to all be really skinny or really fat, hinting that maybe The Rock was the only one in town who went to the gym - Vaughn learns that a new casino has moved into town. Vaughn and his buddies visit the casino and he begins to feel that something just isn't right - first, he sees his high school girlfriend (who looks as if she still is in high school) working as a stripper. Then he catches the guy at the craps table trying to scam his friend. Attempting to defend his friend, Vaughn is knocked out, taking to an undisclosed location, where it appears the bouncers cut him open, and maybe remove his appendix, before dropping him off on the side of the road - in the rain. He's beat up pretty bad, but all it takes is a montage (with some situps) to get him back on his feet. He attempts to press charges, but the sheriff is not interested in going after the casino. After his fatherless nephew has a bad experience with some crystal meth he got from the casino's bouncers, Vaughn takes matters into his own hands, picking up a 2 by 4 (as seen on the poster) and kicking some ass at the casino. Vaughn's violence lands him in court, and his lawyer encourages him to plead guilty, but Vaughn refuses. He fires his lawyer - at the trial - and makes a riveting speech about how "people used to walk tall in this town." He vows to run for sheriff is found innocent, which he is, and subsequently wins the sheriff race. Then he fires all the deputies, hires Johnny Knoxville, and, well, oh, there's about 15 more minutes because the movie is like, an hour and 15 minutes, and there are some explosions, and some ass-kicking, and some ... what does it matter? It's a penis movie if ever there were a penis movie.

::Previously
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