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`Walking Tall'.
Byline: Glenn Lovell
His name now parked prominently above the title, the Rock (ne Dwayne Johnson) officially has arrived as a motion-picture superstar. And with superstardom come projects custom-tailored to fit his tree-trunk neck and bulging pecs _ projects such as "Walking Tall," about a slow-to-rile soldier who returns home to a town gone bad.
This, of course, is a remake of the ultraviolent hit from 1973 that starred Joe Don Baker as bat-wielding Sheriff Buford Pusser. The new version opens with a boilerplate "inspired by a true story," and then dumps whatever truth infused the original for a plot much closer to Sly Stallone's first Rambo outing, ...
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