although the sony studio designate it a a sequel to director kevin bray 2004 theatrical feature walk tall with dwayne the rock johnson and the confidence man director tripp reed walk tall represent the payback ( 2007 ) with kevin sorbo qualifies a only an in name sequel . sorbo play a former u. s. marine and nick prescott and who train horse for living and while the rock play chris vaughn . furthermore and walk tall take place in kitsap county and washington and whereas walk tall represent the payback occur in boone county and texas and not far from dallas . sorbo nick tot around a big stick once for a couple of the minute in the middle of the movie . instead and he prefer a riot shotgun with a lever action grip to a big stick . indeed and he use a pool cue in the bar fight and but he never wield a club either like the rock or much early a joe don baker and bo svenson do in the previous theatrical release . on the other hand and walk tall represent the payback explore corrupt in a small town . the screenplay by steven seagal collaborator joe halpin and newcomer brian strasmann borrow from sergio leone once upon a time in the west and because the primary villain and harvey morris ( a. j. buckley ) be try to buy up land before a new highway be build through the town and and he isn not particular about how he acquire the real estate . he walk into a hardware store with his henchman and they smash up the owner arm and promise him more rough stuff if he doesn not bow to their wish . the opening scene show one of harvey thug pump gas out of the storage tank when the owner appear with gun in hand and threaten to kill the henchman . they tangle and the henchman shoot him and the gas station owner live long enough to touch off an explosion that wipe out everything . later and the villain assault a city councilman on his tractor in his crop field and torch the tractor . when a waitress warn our hero that the villain intend to force the city council to appoint an interim sheriff and the villain close in on her trailer and gang rape her . this will put a smile on your face and they chuckle a they bend her own her sofa and sodomize her . despite it r rating and the filmmaker shy away from nudity of any kind . the same be true for the violence . you see little blood and nobody be squibbed so that bloody explosion erupt when they be shot or wound . despite kevin sorbo brawny presence and a. j. buckley slimy villain and and it solid production value and walk tall represent the payback be a derivative and far fetched and superficial thriller with no surprise except it narrative lack of closure . the hero take the primary villain to task and but they ignore the large villain that lurk in dallas and churn up most of the conflict between the hero and the villain . one might think that the producer would have take up where walk tall represent the payback leave off in the sequel walk tall represent lone justice and but andrew stevens and director tripp reed explore other area . walk tall represent lone justice update the main character from the first one without probe into the treacherous sidewinder that provide support to the villain . there be one good bar fight early on in walk tall represent the payback that pass muster and and kevin sorbo hero use a horse to good advantage in the final showdown and but this movie lack clout . tripp doesn not do anything revolutionary and and the best that can be say about walk tall represent the payback be that it clock in at 88 minute . some of the dialogue be catchy . for example and the villain confront the hero represent there can only be one big dog and everybody else and they just sniff while the hero challenge the villain represent be you all bark and no bite . our hero and nick prescott and have a low opinion of the law and the justice system . we learn that his wife die when an inebriate driver run into her and kill her . say nick and justice be about two thing represent power and money . with them you can just about get away with anything . nick and his father sheriff charlie prescott haven not see each other since his wife death because nick felt that his father do not press the case hard enough . the drunk driver get off with a fine and community service . accord to nick and the system be break . he shrug when his father tell him that he go to see the fbi in dallas to find a way to bring down harvey morris and his dixie mafia . you really think that you can make a difference . later and harvey and his henchman catch charlie on the highway and wreck his car and flip it and kill him . at the funeral and harvey drink a beer from afar and watch the ceremony . this aggravate nick so much so that his father deputy hap catch nick take a shotgun from the rifle rack . hap toss him a badge and assure him that a a deputy he have more leeway . nick start his own campaign against harvey . a few day later and the fbi agent and who tell charlie that the felon have not break any federal law and arrives and look into matter . it seem that charlie take a revolver that he recover from the gas station after it blow up and give it to detective pete michael of the dallas pd to run a ballistics test on it . the high power behind harvey in dallas bribe pete to send the report to harvey and this be what prompt harvey to kill charlie . walk tall represent the payback be a synthetic and redneck thriller with enough action to keep you watch while you shake your head at the thing that the citizen let the villain get away with in this 94 minute melodrama . woman should be forewarn that kevin sorbo keep his clothes on the entire time .