Never really got that one iconic role...

Out of the wrestlers turned actors Bautista and Cena are doing much more interesting stuff than The Rock. The Rock may be succesful but his movies and and more importantly roles are forgettable.

True, he's just known as The Rock everywhere he goes. No one's ever associated him with a specific role he did like with Arnie or Sly (Terminator, Rambo). Hell, no even seems to ever even quote any of his lines from his films or do any impersonations of him (or if they did, it would be of his wrestling persona only).

Dwayne is a strange case of an action star who's every bit as famous and successful as any of the major action stars that came before him (Arnie, Sly, Eastwood, Cruise, Chan etc), but whose legacy on film seems more on par with the likes of Seagal and Van Damme than anything. The odd decent, guilty pleasure action film popping up in his filmography every now and then, but no all-time classics like First Blood or Terminator or any particularly iconic roles either.

He's like the Denny's of action stars.

He does seem to have concentrated on the 'family friendly' route.

I’m just glad they finally dropped him after miscasting him to play the pulp hero Doc Savage.

Probably because he's a terrible actor, even by action guy standards.