Road House is a poorly written chaotic mess that offers fleeting moments of mild enjoyment amid a ridiculous script and questionable looking action effects. Having never seen the Patrick Swayze original, I went into this film with all the knowledge I’d acquired from Family Guy skit and knew that I was in for a bunch of bar fighting. Disappointingly, at no point did anyone utter “Road House” after they roundhouse kicked someone in the face, an action which also hardly happened in a film that mostly relied on flying fists and taking hits. For all the charm that Jake Gyllenhaal can conjure, the film around him consistently does him no favors and makes this film more of a chore to watch than a treat.
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