@Beans Dwayne Johnson isn't even top 10. I'd have:
- Arnie
- Tom Cruise
- Sylvester Stallone
- Jackie Chan
- Jean Claude van Damme
- Bruce Willis
- Nicholas Cage
- Sean Connery (is it debateable that he's an action movie star, I wonder?)
- Mel Gibson
- Keanu Reeves
The best modern one might be Jason Statham, I guess (based on Crank, The One etc), maybe Jet Li gets a shout instead, but I can think of maybe 3-4 films for each of those actors that they've carried harder than Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson ever did.
And as to
@Pogue Mahone the best thing that Maverick has going for it - and the reason that everyone needs to go see it - is because it's voting with your wallet to go back the hell away from boring CGI atrocicities. As Scorsese said, Marvel Movies are not cinema. And Mad Max Fury Road was FANTASTIC, speaking in modern terms - I loved it for the practical effects, lore, characters, and general storyline, but I can think of quite a few 90's films that smoke it, and that's sort of the point I think - there used to be a movie better than TG:Maverick come out every single year, and we've just not seen one since... I can remember. Practical effects, character driven plot (I don't care if you say it's simple, it did surprise me a few times), and it took itself seriously for once - unlike seemingly every other blockbuster of the last decade which are endlessly 4th wall breaking, and somehow smug about themselves - like endless Deadpool clones.