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But, despite very much taking the franchise in a different direction, Welcome to the Jungle was a great fantasy adventure comedy. Johnson and Vin Diesel play off one another so well in this film, and that’s been lost as the two refuse to work with one another, and that’s a real shame, because it certainly helped to make Fast Five a lot of fun.Ģ) Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle – I don’t think many people were expecting much when we heard there was to be a sequel to the Robin Williams classic Jumaji.
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This is still the series’ high point to this day and it blended the big action of the later installments with the crime film aspect that the series was founded on, something that has been lost as they’ve become more and more generic action flicks.
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Yes Johnson isn’t really in a lot of the film, and was instead fleshed out more in the awful The Scorpion King spin off, but I enjoy the central Mummy franchise, so it makes it onto this list.ģ) Fast Five – Fast Five was really the film that catapulted Dwayne Johnson into international movie stardom, whilst also reinvigorating the Fast and Furious franchise in most people’s eyes. Whilst the CGI on Johnson is awful in retrospect, I’m sure it seemed awesome at the time, the character was a cool antagonist providing a threat to both Rick and Imhotep. Johnson himself is certainly built like a fitting Hercules, and fits that role well, and it was an interesting take on an ancient character.Ĥ) The Mummy Returns – Dwayne Johnson’s first real foray into acting saw him appear as the Scorpion King at the end of The Mummy Returns. There are question marks over whether the stories are true or merely a clever mythos built around Hercules by Iolaus, the storyteller, and the rest of Hercules’ entourage. What this iteration of Hercules does so well is reflect a more modern view of realism on these stories, rather than taking the more literal approach. As always, these lists are just my opinions and I’d love to hear your favourites in the comments.ĥ) Hercules – I wrote my dissertation at University on how the character of Heracles/Hercules has been portrayed in film, so even though there are very few good films about the mythical hero I have a big soft spot for them. Now a lot of these movies aren’t great, but the two have been brought together by The Fast and the Furious franchise, and are co-starring in its ninth film The Fast and Furious Presents: Hobbs and Shaw, so I decided to look back over my favourite films from each actor. Both broke through in a genre, for Statham gangster films, for Johnson fantasy adventure, before both moved into creating action movies, although it is fair to say that Johnson has had far more financial success. Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson and Jason Statham have had very similar acting careers if you actually look at them.