Walking Tall

"One man will stand up for what's right."

2004 1h 26m EN

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Synopsis

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A former U.S. soldier returns to his hometown to find it overrun by crime and corruption, which prompts him to clean house.

“One man will stand up for what's right.”

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Cast

Dwayne Johnson
Chris Vaughn
Johnny Knoxville
Ray Templeton
Neal McDonough
Jay Hamilton
Kristen Wilson
Michelle Vaughn
Ashley Scott
Deni
Khleo Thomas
Pete Vaughn
John Beasley
Chris Vaughn Sr.
Barbara Tarbuck
Connie Vaughn

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Kevin Bray
Writers: David Klass, David Levien, Channing Gibson
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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RUNTIME

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86 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.

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2 / 8

ERA

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Released 22 years ago.

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3 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Walking Tall (Reboot) Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Kevin Bray, shot by Glen MacPherson. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Graeme Revell. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor George Bowers shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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7 / 8

CAST

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Dwayne Johnson and Johnny Knoxville and Neal McDonough carry the top of the cast.

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8 / 8

FACT

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Marketing tagline: "One man will stand up for what's right.".

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Kevin Bray directs. Glen MacPherson behind the camera. Graeme Revell scores. George Bowers cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Profitable at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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Things worth knowing

186 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
2Released 22 years ago.
3Part of the "Walking Tall (Reboot) Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
4Directed by Kevin Bray, shot by Glen MacPherson. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by Graeme Revell. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor George Bowers shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Dwayne Johnson and Johnny Knoxville and Neal McDonough carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "One man will stand up for what's right.".
9IMDB entry: tt0351977 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
10Classified under 9 themes, including "small town", "martial arts", "war veteran", "based on true story".

The technical file

Cinematography: Glen MacPherson
Original score: Graeme Revell
Editing: George Bowers
Production design: Brent Thomas
Makeup / hair: Jeff Dawn
VFX supervisor: Ray McIntyre Jr.
Sound: Richard King
Stunt coordinator: Jeff Habberstad
Runtime: 86 min · 1h 26m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $46,000,000
Box office: $57,223,888
Return: 124% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: Walking Tall (2004)

Part of

Walking Tall (Reboot) Collection

Walking Tall is a 2004 action film. A remake of the 1973 film of the same name, it stars The Rock and Johnny Knoxville. Like the original film, it was based on the real-life story of Sheriff Buford Pusser and utilized many elements from his life. A number of aspects were changed, including the main character's name (to "Chris Vaughn") and the setting was moved from McNairy County, Tennessee to Kitsap County, Washington, United States. Walking Tall: The Payback and Walking Tall: Lone Justice, are two direct-to-video sequels that have been released starring Kevin Sorbo.

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Dark Jedi2014-09-19
★ 6/10
There is absolutely nothing special about this movie. It is average all the way. It is however a decent enough off-the-shelf action flick which fulfils its purpose. That is to provide an hour and a half of decent entertainment. Our hero comes back from being away for quite a while and finds the bad guys are in control. A pretty classical story which have been used since the first movies were made (and even before that). The movie can easily be said to be a modern day Western movie as far as the story goes. Our hero, Dwayne Johnson, is doing a decent job of being a hero. The actions scenes, which is really why you are watching this movie after all, are reasonably well done. Of course they are more of TV-movie quality than anything else but good enough in the context of this movie. The movie plays out more or less exactly as you would expect. Hero comes home, find bad guys in control, gets into shuffle with bad guys, bad guys tries to take on hero via family and friends, fails, hero goes after main bad guy in a long chase/fight, happy ending, roll after texts. As I wrote, it could just as well have been an old Western movie. The traditional western saloon is replaced by a casino and the whisky and cattle is replaced with crooked gambling and some modern drug dealing. The one part I though was silly, as in bad silly, was the trial in the first half of the movie. Warning, spoiler ahead! I mean, come on. Hero demolishes Casino and gets put on trial, hero shows jury his scars and asks to get a non-guilty verdict, jury happily obliges him. What the f…? Apart from this the movie completed its mission of knocking and hour and a half off my life while keeping me from being bored in front of the TV.

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