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-Walking Tall spielte am ersten Weekend in den USA $15,3 Millionen ein,am ersten Tag waren es noch $5,54 Millionen.Damit landete Walking Tall auf dem 2 Platz.Walking Tall erhielt ueberwiegend schlechte kritiken in den Medien.Robert Ebert von der Chicago Sun schrieb ua dazu:
"[lexicon]The Rock[/lexicon] comes out of the movie more or less intact, career wise. I've felt from the beginning that he had the makings of a movie star, and I still think so; he has a kind of inner quiet that allows him to inhabit preposterous scenes without being overwhelmed by them. His acting style is flat and uninflected, authoritative without pushing it; he's a little like John Wayne that way. Also like Wayne, he's a big, physically intimidating man who is able to suggest a certain gentleness; he's not inflame, not looking for a fight, not shoving people around, but simply trying to right wrongs. I seriously doubt that he could play a convincing villain. Not even with a name tag."
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Wirklich gutes habe ich von dem Film auch nicht gelesen. Alleine schon die Dauer von knapp über 75 Minuten sagt schon alles.
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Wann kommt denn der Film in Deutschland raus? Ich wollte den nämlich sehen!
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Zu Scorpion King habe ich definitiv keine Kritik geschrieben. Die wäre allerdings ähnlich verhängnisvoll wie die Liga und Hulk ausgefallen. ;)
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Ich habe hier mal ein Review von Walking Tall.
Suppose a peaceable man comes to town, where he's initially welcomed, later scorned, scourged and spat on for threatening to upset the order of things.
Then suppose, instead of turning the other cheek, he picks up a big honkin' stick.
You could call it "The Passion of [lexicon]The Rock[/lexicon]." Or you could call it "Big Dumb Brute Busts Heads."
Whatever the title, "Walking Tall" is a vicious bit of blood sport.
The filmmakers were careful to camouflage the effects of the violence so younger teens will be spared the trauma of knowing the results when a hard wood club connects with a skull. But despite its PG-13 rating, the movie carries a spirit of gleeful savagery that is contemptible.
The 1973 movie on which the update is based was sickening, too, yet it presented a central figure whose vigilante motivations were at least remotely plausible.
The new version has no reason to exist other than as a fresh marquee title above which wrestler [lexicon]The Rock[/lexicon]'s name can be plastered.
"Walking Tall" transplants the tale from Tennessee to rural Washington, and it scraps the real-life protagonist, Buford Pusser, a name [lexicon]The Rock[/lexicon] -- aka [lexicon]Dwayne Johnson[/lexicon] -- apparently could not stomach.
[lexicon]The Rock[/lexicon] plays Chris Vaughn, who comes home after eight years in the U.S. Special Forces to a town overrun by drugs, gambling and corruption.
Vaughn's old high school rival Jay Hamilton (Neal McDonough) has closed his family's lumber mill, throwing the town into economic upheaval. In its place, Hamilton has opened a casino that's the local headquarters for narcotics, vice and other disreputable doings.
Protesting Hamilton's crooked craps tables, Vaughn is beaten, tortured and left for dead by the casino's ruffians. With the local cops in on the scam, Vaughn gets himself elected sheriff and comes out swinging his giant club.
As Vaughn's old pal and new deputy, Johnny Knoxville provides a few meager moments of humor, while Ashley Scott is tossed in as a token romantic interest for [lexicon]The Rock[/lexicon].
The pea-brained script credited to four writers never makes clear if Vaughn really is crusading for justice or if he's just out for personal vengeance.
Vaughn's not a terribly good guy himself, and the character is so underdeveloped that there's little for [lexicon]The Rock[/lexicon] to hang his winning personality on.
Apparently, we're supposed to root for him simply because he's [lexicon]The Rock[/lexicon], but in "Walking Tall," he just seems like the new thug on the block.
Seemingly the sole preoccupation of director Kevin Bray was to sneak in as much gunplay and bestial truncheoning as possible without putting the coveted 13-to-17 demographic out of the loop.
[lexicon]The Rock[/lexicon]'s "The Rundown" last year had a similar quotient of sanitized violence, but it was done for comic effect, like the Three Stooges on steroids.
In "Walking Tall," violence is a way of life, the only means to an end. It's vile, and you should stay away.
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Walking Tall ist bereits nach 5 Tagen bereits wieder auf dem Weg nach unten.Der Film ist nur noch 4 muss man leider sagen mit $1,253,261.Insgesamt spielte der Film in der ersten Woche $17,999,839 ein,was man durchaus als entaeuschung ansehen kann.
Provokative Frage: Der zweite Rock Film der hintereinander floppt? Denn selbst die groessten optimisten schaetzen das der Film nur knapp $30 Millionen einspielen wird.
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Ich meine mich erinnern zu können, etwas derartiges prophezeit zu haben. Das dürfet nciht wirklich positiv für Rocks weitere Karriere sein. Er braucht nun mehr als nur dringend ein ordentliches Script und ein ordentliches positives Box Office Ergebnis.
,das koennte lustig werden ;)
