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The Rock's best film?

posted 8 years ago by WermhatsWormHat
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I love the Rock, as do millions and millions, he's the people's champ. His movie's usually are either cliched and average or just terrible though. This is the first Rock vehicle that made me say YES, FINALLY! Obviously he's funny and talented, but this is the first time he was in a movie where I loved his character and he consistently cracked me up the whole time. Plus he's great at all the action stuff of course, and the dynamic between him and Hart worked (much better than Hart and Ice Cube). I was expecting this to just be a Ride Along rip off, but it was much less cliched and more fun. I hope they make more of these together, one of the best "buddy cop" type movies I've seen in a long time.

[–] legendNYC 8 years ago

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has a knack for comedy. He is very good in "The Other Guys" and "Pain & Gain", however, "The Rundown" is his best movie.

The bar bully beat down briefly reminded me of that performance.

You don't know where I've been.

[–] JimiCobain 8 years ago

No, I don't believe this to be Dwayne Johnson's best movie/performance, but it certainly was Kevin Hart's best, no doubt about that.

As another poster said, The Rock was great in "The Rundown"(otherwise known as "Welcome To The Jungle"), and that film was more enjoyable and engrossing than "Central Intelligence", if I had to choose.
Also, despite fairly poor scripts, "Snitch" and "Faster" are 2 more films where he puts in a great performance. Even his small role in "Be Cool" was quite entertaining.

[–] WermhatsWormHat 8 years ago

He showed flashes in all of those, and the Rundown is definitely underrated, but I liked this a lot more. I liked how they kept subverting the cliches of the buddy cop genre, like how you think it's going to be the woman as the cliche bad guy but then Kevin Hart just brings it up in the helicopter and Rock dismisses it as stupid, they did a lot of little things like that that I loved. Buddy cop movies are my favorite, I feel like I have a PHD in them, and this one is GOLD! It's very unique how Kevin Hart is actually the stronger one in most ways aside from physical violence.

[–] vltu222 8 years ago

I agree.

[–] hyperionfin 8 years ago

Pain & Gain is easily The Rock's best comedy. It's surprisingly intelligent movie, way better plot-wise than for instance Central Intelligence. And definitely the comedy is gold also in many scenes... just that hand grilling scene alone, it's an everlasting memory for me to see that. I think I dropped from my sofa to the floor when I saw that for the first time.

Probably overall the best movies are from Fast and the Furious series - the latter ones obviously. The Rock isn't main, but he has a significant enough role in many of them.