This movie, given its star actor, is what I imagine watching a wrestling match is like. There is nonstop action and movement with breaks taken only due to fatigue. From the opening camera moving across the landscape, to Chris on a moving ferry, to Chris walking for the entire opening credits back home, you don't encounter many, if any, scenes of one setting, with two actors in a one-on-one situation, engaging in dialogue for several long minutes. Maybe that's a drama, and this, to be sure, is certainly no drama movie. So much happens in this movie, which seems to make it so interesting, and a rush. What some people spend their entire lives doing or could take more than one lifetime doing -- weeding out corruption and social rot in a city/town, seems to get accomplished in the span of a couple months. Also in that time-frame Chris wins a small election (details of which aren't shown) which turns in to a good job and gets back with his former girlfriend. Does life happen this quickly for some people, especially somebody who was away for eight years? In "Walking Tall", it did.

A classical set-up: The lost son returns to his home town and finds it in the hands of a bunch of criminals who owns the sheriff and his men. Actually, this movie is more a western than a western, and that does not work in my eyes.Things that could have happened in 1870 in terms of local wars and appointment of sheriffs are not working well in a modern context. I guess the movie is not supposed to be refined in any way and it certainly isn't. The good thing is that you can concentrate on something else while watching it without loosing any important content simply because there isn't any.

Chris Vaughn (Dwayne Johnson) returns home after serving in the Special Forces. He finds that the mill is closed, and the only game in town is the casino owned by an old classmate Jay Hamilton (Neal McDonough). His best friend Ray Templeton (Johnny Knoxville) is a recovering addict. When he's confronted with drug infested systemic corruption, he decides to fight back. And he's bringing a 2 by 4.The story is a pretty simple lone guy fights back. This is purported to be based on a real guy. Neal McDonough is great at the creepy bad guy. He doesn't overplay it. And he's a good foil to The Rock. The actors really make this movie function. If it wasn't for the likable Rock, there isn't that much to watch for in this movie.

I admire this man's reasoning (Chris Vaughn) on the matter which propels him to move forward in this matter. He must pay the price to make practicality rise with(in) the LAW. He must prove himself worthy of it's words and insist. The law may seem within all of us and he is bringing forth more witnesses as this tale of the heart regarding importance matters to us all and regardless of any color or race. The heart of a man in Chris Vaughn brings about speculation and a respect of values. Watch further as this mind ensues and sincerely commits to a challenge. A man must look into his conscience in respect to thine honorable feelings remitting doubt and to make matters clear within the spirit of the peoples of a town, and perhaps all of us. Watch consciously-beware.