Following a UFC career that ends abruptly, Elwood Dalton (Jake Gyllenhaal) is recruited by the owner (Jessica Williams) of a bar in Florida to act as a bouncer....
Did anyone, anywhere, at any time, ask for a remake of 'Road House' and did it even need one?Following a UFC career that ends abruptly, Elwood Dalton is recruited by the owner of a bar in Florida to act as a bouncer. However, when Dalton proves too effective and disrupts the plans of local criminal kingpin Brandt , he decides to hire in a fixer named Knox and sets the stage for a battle between them...
No longer the Double Deuce, 'Road House' instead is a bar in Florida that was once frequented by Ernest Hemingway that is coveted by Billy Magnussen, who plays a hypebeast dipshit version of a crime lord, complete with a chintzy yacht and a suit three sizes too small for him. Enter Jake Gyllenhaal's soft-spoken bouncer, who begins his first violent encounter with a group of bikers by asking them if they've got health insurance and where the nearest hospital is.
It should feel exciting, vital and tactile yet there's something just unconvincing and ultimately soulless about it all, not to mention it being at least thirty minutes too long. Even when Conor McGregor turns up, this is compounded. For one, he can't act his way out of a paper bag and is completely unconvincing when he's not in a fight scene, careening through about three different accents in a single take.
Yes, it may have some funny moments here and there, but it's all so forced when the original felt so effortless - and almost unintentional - in its humour. Doug Liman is a gifted director who made such wonderful hits like '' movie, and the criminally underrated 'Go', yet 'Road House' often feels blank and tonally mismatched that it never lands as well as it should. In the end, 'Road House' fights against its own irrelevance and scrapes its way to a draw.
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