Every Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson Movie Ranked From Worst To Best

33. Empire State

Empire State Dwayne Johnson
Lionsgate

I'm not a filmmaker, obviously, but maybe if you're going to give Dwayne Johnson top billing, if you're going to put Dwayne Johnson on your poster, if you're going to bank all your marketing on Dwayne Johnson's raw sexual magnetism and/or theatrical pulling power, maybe let him actually do his thing? Maybe? Not a filmmaker, as I say, but just seems a bit obvious this one.

Don't have him there to effectively breastfeed Leading Man experience to Liam Hemsworth? Don't dirty his hands with a script that contains the line "we give our guys on the streets guns to shoot people who show up with other guns". Don't put him in a film about a heist and then call his character "Ransome".

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