“Road House” Prime Poster
Director Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity) and Jake Gyllenhaal (Night Crawler) team up for Road House, a remake of Rowdy Herrington’s 1989 actioner of the same name, which starred Patrick Swayze.
In the remake, an ex-UFC middleweight fighter (Gyllenhaal) ends up working at a rowdy bar in the Florida Keys where things are not as they seem.
Road House also stars Daniela Melchior (Assassin Club, Billy Magnussen (No Time to Die), MMA/boxing star, Conor McGregor and also features cult martial arts star, Matt Mullins (Death Fighter).
Road House will make its premiere at South by Southwest, followed by a streaming release on Prime Video on March 21. Watch a Fight Scene, followed by its recent Trailer below:
This actually looks like a quality production!
As much as I like the trashiness of the original, I appreciate how the film makers seem to be injecting some substance into this movie. It looks like Jake really threw himself into the training, and Doug Liman is always reliable with knowing how to film action scenes. (It was a grave mistake to replace him with Paul Greengrass in the Bourne series.)
I hope this turns out as it appears to be!
“Doug Liman is always reliable with knowing how to film action scenes” Agree with this. He made the best Bourne movie, too.
Dare I say, for my taste, this looks better than the original? The fighting in this new version looks more convincing to me, despite having Benny Urquidez as a teacher Patrick Swayze never looked like he had martial arts skills past orange belt level, in my humble opinion, his kicks, in particular, were pretty pathetic.
lol Just watch where you say that. The lovers of the original film will attack you for sure. 😉 The Trailer does look pretty good, but I’ve learned my lesson with Trailers. I’ll hold my judgement until I see the actual movie. Liman is a solid filmmaker, but still =)
Lots of other people are already complaining like this movie is a personal attack against them, and it’s funny. No, they don’t have to like it, and the original will never be taken away from them, but this is a hill they want to die on.
Eh…I love the original and feel it didn’t need a re-do but am not about to crucify this attempt as a Crime against Humanity.
Some great fight scenes is what I think will be this one’s biggest strength [on that note, I know many people now think OG Road House’s fights are pretty basic but they perfectly worked within the film. Swayze was a professional dancer and so brought a lot of athletic grace to his fight moves and I still think his one on one with Marshall Teague is pretty bad-ass not to mention having the most Homo Erotic Line ever delivered during a duel to the death (“I used to fuck guys like you in prison”) ] but it will neatly side step much of the goofy charm of the original, which piled on the violence with liberal doses of sex and over the top macho dialogue. Don’t expect a rooftop sex scene, an impromptu striptease or a legendary line like Sam Elliot’s to Kelly Lynch walking away “That gal’s got way too much brains to have an ass like that” (doubly legendary when delivered in Elliott’s trademark gravelly baritone).
Violence aside this will be a sanitized, tick-all-the-right-boxes effort that’ll be an ok one time watch and then get buried along with 250 others of it’s type on streaming (the ones that usually star Kevin Hart, The Rock, Jennifer Lopez or Gal Gadot).
It’ll be too generic to be a cult hit and too inoffensive to be meme worthy.
Yeah, I never understood that. Technically, they’re just slapping on a title to cash in and can get the attention of the original’s audience. If they were George Lucas-ing it (changing it, making the OG’s not available), then I can see why lovers of the OG would get pissed. I think sequels do more damage to a franchise than remakes. Godfather 3 for instance. And that God awful Die Hard in Russia. lol
(with all this said, I’ve never seen the original Road House in full lol)
But did you see Road House *2*?!
Road House 2: Last Call?
Hell yeah. I and most likely 10 other people on the planet.
If you can stomach the film-makers decision to
[SPOILER ALERT]
…kill off Dalton off screen and focus on his son, then it’s not too bad, and features some terrific fight scenes choreographed by Larnell Stoval.
Jonathan Schaech’s no Swayze but equips himself well in the action scenes and Jake Busey channels famous dad Gary in portraying an unhinged douchebag. And I gotta give props to a film that gives one of it’s best fights to…Will Patton of all people!
Never seen the original???? Man, you’re denying yourself a solid treat. Order in a pizza and have 4 chilled beers on standby then pop in the DVD and I guarantee you a fun time…just give in to the movie’s Over-The-Top goofiness and you’ll have a fine time.
On the topic of remakes, the cinematic landscape is littered with disastrous ones, especially those attempting to re-do originals crafted by genuinely talented directors.
The great Paul Verhoeven’s TOTAL RECALL & ROBOCOP got remade, with abysmal results.
And let’s not even talk about the dreadful “re-imagining” of Kathryn Bigelow’s POINT BREAK.
Bar fight, too. https://youtu.be/1Rmbo8XI6x0?si=e5Ww4Njkn-bwIGy5
This is pretty goddamn far from Doug Liman’s better works.
I wouldn’t have given this movie a chance if an unestablished director was at the helm, but this movie felt like it was directed by someone who’s never watched a movie. The trailer made it look like there was going to be Jackie Chan inspired fights, but that was not the case at all here.
Instead, the filmmakers used a new technique called “multi-pass” which they were delusional enough to believe would make the fights more realistic and run smoothly. Instead, there’s CGI body doubles that pop up in the fight scenes that make everything look like shit, and unlike other simulated one-takes, the disguised cuts happen every few seconds.
It’s pretty terrible when a movie that doesn’t need any CGI uses a ton of it all in favor of trying to re-invent the wheel. Just for shits and giggles, we even get CGI asses. It’s pretty sad that Jake Gyllenhaal went through all this effort to appear in a 2 hour TikTok video.
That bad? Ah, man. What happened to my Doug Liman. 🙁