His films were right for that era.
If you watch them now it’ll be like bad comedy but back then that was his niche.
His peers like Van Damme and Wesley Snipes were in similar roles. Before that we had people like Chuck Norris.
To a certain extent Sly Stallone was also in the same module but Sly was smarter he knew how to evolve and remain relevant thus he is still a movie star till today