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| The Rundown |
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| With an irresistible twinkle in his eye and an amiably sly grin on his face, Johnson staked out the Action Hero corner as his own here as a big-dumb-lug with smarts. He did it with wit, with an inkling of class, and with a surprising lightness and limberness that should be at odds with his imposing physique, yet isn't. |
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| Get Smart |
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| Johnson's part is teeny-tiny as massive Agent 23, but it's a great example of his comic chops, so much so that you have to wish for the sequel to be all about him. |
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| The Scorpion King |
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| This cheesier-than-cheesy spin-off from the Mummy movies would have gone straight to the hell of Sci Fi Channel's Saturday night lineup sans Johnson as the most adorable mercenary assassin/future Hitler-esque warlord who, at the moment, is thrown off guard by cute kids and pretty girls. |
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| Southland Tales |
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| It's probably one of the worst movies of recent vintage, and Johnson's character -- an amnesiac action hero who wanders around a whoops-apocalypse version of near-future Los Angeles -- is one of the most poorly drawn. It's not Johnson's fault ... but even his immense screen magnetism can't save it. |
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| The Game Plan |
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| No guy who ever called himself "The Rock" should be seen in movies with little girls in little pink tutus. It's just wrong, and it's best forgotten. Or burned. Some devoted fan should dig up the masters of this and see to it that they are destroyed. |
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