The Rock plays ex-US Special Forces soldier Chris Vaughn, who going back home to his small Northwest town, finds it changed a lot. Factories and mills have closed down, and the business has been revved up with casinos and adult shops. These inroads to progress have been engineered by his smarmy childhood pal, Jay Hamilton (Neal McDonough - who really looks like a sinister taong araw).
Since they have to update the story, the film makes reference to Pusser as the previous sheriff who dies in a suspicious accident, and the post is now occupied by a corrupt guy in Hamilton's pocket. You can see it coming then: The Rock runs for office, wins it, and starts cleaning the town up. Hooohaaa! So much for the buildup - let's get the mayhem on!
You'll have to excuse the story having a fratboy element - why else would Johnny Knoxville be cast as Chris' wayward childhood friend, whose criminal past helps a lot in figuring out the drug-running methods of the town's current bad apples? Speaking of Knoxville, have you ever seen him and Josh Duhamel in the same picture? No? Because they're the same guy! Bwahahahaha!
Ok I digress. There's also the chick element, ably filled (ooooh, filled!) by eye candy Ashley Scott. Wow, The Rock has a bed scene (can't remember if he did Kelly Hu in Scorpion King). Lucky sumbitch.
"This is just like the WWF - only I get paid better. Take that, Vince!"
Even though Vin Diesel's The Pacifier rolled in the dough in the box office, I think The Rock would have fit the role better. Its obvious that The Rock has made better choices in film roles than Diesel. Plus the dude just has the personality - wake up and smell ... what The Rock is cookin'.
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"Haha. I stll have a cut on whatever you make, Dwayne. Movies pay you better? Good!" -- Vinnie Mac
Have you ever seen Alan Rickman and Neil Gaiman together at the same time? Theyre one and the same person!
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