Dwayne Johnson is without doubt one of the final nice film stars. Whether he is kicking butt, tickling humorous bones or (ceaselessly) each, The Rock has the uncanny skill to make nearly each film higher simply by displaying up.
(Note: These movies are ranked based mostly on high quality and Dwayne Johnson-ness. Minor roles largely rank low, and cameos are solely included in the event that they’re noteworthy.)
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Honorable Mention: “The Mummy Returns” (2001)
It’s laborious to guage “The Mummy Returns” as a “Dwayne Johnson movie”: The wrestler-turned-actor is within the movie for a really quick prologue, after which he comes again on the finish as a CGI scorpion monster. But it is Johnson’s first main position in a film, so it deserves a shout-out for that purpose and (for the reason that film is so hyperactively shrill it is sort of laborious to observe) for that purpose alone.
Columbia Pictures
Honorable Mention: “The Other Guys” (2010)
Johnson has completed a couple of cop comedy the place his cameo quantities to little greater than a joke (see additionally: “Reno 911!: Miami”), however his look in Adam McKay’s sensible and subversive “The Other Guys” is a selected deal with. Johnson seems because the heroic motion film preferrred of legislation enforcement, reverse Samuel L. Jackson, solely to die unexpectedly, forcing “the other guys” — Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg — to take middle stage as a substitute. It’s a small half, however Johnson owns it, and the remainder of the film is humorous as heck too.
Summit Entertainment
29. “Snitch” (2013)
Johnson has made a number of embarrassing motion pictures (we’ll get to them in a minute), however he is by no means made a film extra boring than “Snitch.” He performs a dad whose son will get busted for medicine, and the one approach to get the child out of jail is to rat out an even bigger drug supplier. So Johnson goes undercover to seek out one. The thought is pulpy and attention-grabbing, however the film is turgid and lifeless, solely notable for a robust supporting flip by Jon Bernthal.
Universal Pictures
28. “Doom” (2005)
This might not be the worst online game film, however that claims a heck of much more in regards to the different online game motion pictures than it does about “Doom.” Johnson and Karl Urban star as Space Marines on a mission to Mars, the place monsters are killing folks. Andrzej Bartkowiak’s movie is so dimly lit it is laborious to inform what is going on on, and while you do work out what is going on on, you notice it is actually fairly dumb. The closing combat between Johnson and Urban is sort of nifty, nevertheless it’s not value watching the remainder of this horrible film to get to it.
Universal Pictures
27. “Southland Tales” (2006) Richard E. Kelly’s bold follow-up to “Donnie Darko” has a formidable solid and quite a lot of huge concepts, however the solid is wasted, and the massive concepts are the sort you’d solely give you while you’re wasted. Johnson stars as a conservative film star who will get caught in a sprawling sci-fi conspiracy, however the movie is not humorous, it is not insightful, and even the craziest moments do not feel loopy sufficient. If you ever marvel what it will appear to be if Neil Breen remade “Wild Palms,” effectively, you’ve got very particular tastes, however that is the film for you. And in all probability solely you.
Paramount Pictures
26. “Baywatch” (2017)
Johnson takes over the David Hasselhoff position in “Baywatch,” a comedy adaptation of a TV sequence that in all probability did not realize it was humorous. That’s not a foul…