Film: Road House
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jessica Williams, Billy Magnussen, Connor McGregor, Daniela Melchior, Joaquim De Almeida, Lukas Gage, Arturo Castro
Director: Doug Liman
Rating: 2.5/5
Runtime: 121 min

This reimagining of the 1989 Patrick Swayze classic grunge hunts for a grunt and gruel routine. The motivation is different here and the style is down and dirty too. Dalton of Rowdy Herrington’s 1989 cult classic Road House and the Dalton of Doug Liman’s remake, have different first names. John was Swayze’s and Elwood is Jake’s. This movie is set in the Florida Keys, not Kansas City. Elwood takes a Greyhound bus instead of the new car as shown in the ’89 version. Elwood is definitely not the showboat that John was and he is kinder too. 

Director Doug Liman and his team consisting of Anthony Bagarozzi & Charles Mondry set the proceedings up for a ‘fight’ engagement that keeps getting more and more ridiculous as the runtime proceeds.