Dwayne Johnson in (from left) 'Faster,' 'Moana' and 'The Smashing Machine.' Courtesy Everett Collection (3) Dwayne Johnson's 50th movie, The Smashing Machine, begins in 1997 and ends in 2000. Coincidentally, the wrestler previously known as "Flex Kavana" and "Rocky Maivia" began calling himself "The Rock" in 1997 and published his memoir in 2000. A New York Times best-seller, The Rock Says ... alternates between one man's two voices: ravenous self-mythologizing egomaniac Rock, and thoughtful young Dwayne carefully plotting his next business venture. "We've all worked hard to place The Rock at a certain level," he says (describing himself, or his public image, in the third person). "And we just want to make sure that his first movie is a good movie. Will The Rock be the next James Dean or Cary Grant or James Stewart? I don't think so. But he could be the next Arnold Schwarzenegger ... only better looking." Twenty-five years later, Johnson stars in gigantic blockbusters, produces TV shows about himself, sells tequila, debit cards and facial cleanser, owns a football league, still wrestles and sits on the wrestling megacorporation's board of directors. He might still be president someday, or that could be a demotion. The film career is just one asset in a vast portfolio, but he's a devoted movie star, releasing features annually, if not monthly. Smashing Machine marks a dramatic departure. It's a raw and gnarly, helmed by a hip, young director and produced by the artweird memelords at A24. It's a new direction in a career defined by new beginnings. He came to Hollywood with great hype, suffered setbacks, rebranded, shrank, grew, joined some action franchises, failed to launch his own action franchise. He's been the hero, the comic relief and the bad guy in adventures, epics, sensitive dramas and testicular farces. He's played demigods from three mythologies, flown so many helicopters and worn so many Under Armour shirts. Read on to find out where Smashing Machine ranks. 50. Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019) Image Credit: Universal Pictures The worst movie on this list can't just be one of his bland action movies. No, this ultimate travesty represents all its star-producer's paradoxes and multitudes. Somehow, Hobbs & Shaw is an empty paycheck gig and a shrill passion project, grafting everything he sincerely cares about - girl-dad pride, Polynesian heritage, his fervent desire to give everyone a nickname - onto a shameless IP self-xerox. Forget the laughless bickering with co-star Jason Statham. Consider that, after four Fasts spent in the orbit of car godfather/auto shop proprietor Dominic Toretto, straight-arrow lawman Luke Hobbs unconvincingly reveals he also comes from a car-criminal dynasty - which includes a family-run auto shop! The thievery is brazen and existential. Dwayne Johnson steals his origin story from Vin Diesel. 49. Red One (2024) Image Credit: Amazon Studios/Courtesy Everett Collection I count eight phases in his filmography, distinct even when they overlap. After The Middling Action Movies came The Middling Family Movies, also known as "The Skinny Era." Around the same time, he launched The Comedy Side-Hustle, which rejuvenated him for The Successful Action Movies and The Ludicrously Successful Family Movies (which all somehow happened while he also made Ballers). But The Attempted DC Coup left him fleeing into the sequels and reboots of The Great Retrenchment. (We're living there now; even Smashing Machine wants to remind you how cool it was watching him fight in the '90s.) But his worst era by far was The Streaming Age, when he churned out glossy clickbait junk for Amazon, Netflix and Disney+. Red One is the most offensive because it ruins Christmas, with Johnson giving one of his flattest stern-guy performances as St. Nick's bodyguard. 48. Red Notice (2021) Image Credit: Frank Masi / Netflix The better Red movie only because nobody kicks a snowman in the crotch. 47. Moana 2 (2024) Image Credit: Disney Released in theaters but conceived as Disney+ series, this pointless sequel gets buried here with the streaming slop for two reasons. First, there are no good songs. Second, the villain is a cloud. 46. Empire State (2013) If I'm Dwayne Johnson, I'm reading this list wondering how troll-ish this writer is for throwing four of my huge hits down here underneath The Tooth Fairy. I will discover, though, that the writer has a deep respect for me. He sees how all my creative endeavors are direct expressions of my experience and perspective. He may not like all my movies, but he recognizes there is only one single acting gig I truly didn't care about. That would be this dull bit part as a cop in this straight-to-DVD heist flick, produced by scandal-plagued crudmeister Randall Emmett. 45. The Game Plan (2007) What led Johnson to Empire State, and the precipice of a Redbox career? The problems began when his initial action movies stalled, and he accelerated his personal Schwarzenegger career a