Movies starring Dwayne Johnson
Technically, Rampage fits into the “based on a video game” category but, as with most products from the ‘70s and ‘80s (when games weren’t exactly narrative-based), significant changes were applied to make the concept viable for the b...
U.S. Release Date: 2018-04-13
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Disaster Images)
Genre: Action/Adventure
Director: Brad Peyton
Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Naomie Harris, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, ...
Before being dazzled by the high profile cast of Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds, and Gal Gadot, perhaps I should have looked a little more closely at the filmography of writer/director Rawson Marshall Thurber. The filmmaker has to his credit su...
U.S. Release Date: 2021-11-12
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Action/Comedy
Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber
Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds, Gal Gadot, ...
San Andreas is exactly what one might expect it to be - no more and no less. It's as if director Brad Peyton (Journey 2: The Mysterious Island) and screenwriter Carlton Cuse assembled this movie after attending a Disaster 101 course. Although tec...
U.S. Release Date: 2015-05-29
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Disaster Images, Profanity)
Genre: Action/Adventure
Director: Brad Peyton
Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Carla Gugino, Alexandra Daddario, ...
It would be fair to say that Skyscraper does what it sets out to do but the unambitious agenda isn’t something I’m especially interested in watching. A dumbed-down Die Hard with a Towering Inferno infusion, the film exists solely as a showca...
U.S. Release Date: 2018-07-13
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Scenes of Peril)
Genre: Action/Thriller
Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber
Cast: Dwayne Johnson, McKenna Roberts, Byron Mann, ...
Someone please get director Ric Roman Waugh a tripod! Snitch might be a passable action-thriller but it's hard to say because every time an action scene comes along, the image shakes so badly it's impossible to keep anything in view or focus. Those...
U.S. Release Date: 2013-02-22
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Ric Roman Waugh
Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Barry Pepper, Jon Bernthal, ...