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Information
- Year
- 2004
- Runtime
- 86 min.
- Director
- Kevin Bray
- Genres
- Action, Crime
- Rating *
- 6.3
- Votes *
- 62,196
- Checks
- 3,069
- Favs
- 56
- Dislikes
- 80
- Favs/checks
- 1.8% (1:55)
- Favs/dislikes
- 1:1
Top comments
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Siskoid
By all accounts, 1973's Standing Tall is a cult classic (have to find it), but the Dwayne Johnson remake isn't unentertaining even if one feels it gets further and further away from the "true story" it's based on. Translated into a black ops veteran - and into The Rock! - the man on a mission to clean up his corrupt logging town is more superhuman than wrestler-turned-lawman Buford Pusser might historically have been allowed. In fact, they don't even use his name, though details of a former sheriff's death echo Pusser's as a tribute (not sure that plays). Thanks to Johnny Knoxville playing Johnson's not-in-the-same-class sidekick, there is some comedy, and at its best, the movie sometimes evokes, before the fact, the show Justified. Heck, Neal McDonough is even in it! Whoever wrote the screenplay has absolutely no idea how court works, and the only way to get passed that scene is to immediately turn your brain to off and enjoy Dwayne righteously dealing out frontier justice with a 2x4. Pretty good use of the woodland setting too. 3 years 3 months ago -
