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Rating:  -
So happy this movie is getting a Special Edition. I know most of you are probably saying your crazy you actually love this movie? I do love this movie, I mean let alone being a girl and Patrick Swayze is the star of it looking hot! This movie is simply great! He kicks ass as the head bouncer Dalton. Sam Elliot is awesome as his best friend Wade Garrett and Kelly Lynch is so sexy in this. That I know you guys will agree with.
The music is great too! The Jeff Healey Band did an awesome job on the soundtrack. As did Patrick with his songs especially with "Raising Heaven (In Hell Tonight)". Now you guys really hate me, huh? Oh well, I love everything about this movie. Give it a try for whoever hasn't seen it.
Rating:  -
This is one of the greatest bar fighting movies ever. Dalton comes to town and totally kicks tail. I am surprised this movie didn't start an entire franchise of Road House movies.
Rating:  -
Something about this movie always made me smile. I tell you what, it's not really the whole kicking butt and so forth. It's the characters in it. You got this guy, Dalton, he's mysterious, quiet, and a fighter. What you don't know is that he's a tad depressed because he didn't know that a woman he ended up with one night was very married and he had to really lay a beating on someone. He has a friend who tries to console him in his own fatherly way, but ends up dying because the true champions stand alone, everyone they touch will die.
He applies what he learns in martial arts into his life, and into his job. Wounds heal and chicks dig scars.
But that's something he'd be modest about. It's definately a movie that I would rent for an 80s Flick Night, if it was tagged with something like The Breakfast Club.
Rating: -
This movie is so bad, so stupid, so mindless and so gay that it has become an instant classic. Their is so much mano 'a mano action, machismo, testosterone and blind mindless stupidity, violence and bad hair that you wonder why a female is even in the film. This movie is possibly one of the dumbest movies I have ever seen. It is sooooooooooooooo bad and soooooooooooooo stupid that it has actually become a classic.
Let me try to break down the reason that I love/hate this movie so much. First... SWAYZE. Good god, for christ sake he looks like somebody from a ballet/break dancing/gay porn movie and he is picked to be some badass 'legendary' bouncer... with a degree in PHILOSOPHY! This moron is supposedly a college grad who actually has a brain and is intelligent but his job and career path and lifes ambition is to be a journey man bouncer in stinky smelly redneck bars. This goof is so famous for being a bouncer that he is known through out the country for his moronic stupid skills and profession. SWAYZE also has the most horrible mullet of all time. He looks like he gets up every morning and spends 3 hours to get his mullet "just right". For god sake he has the same hair style as his leading lady in the movie!!!! Also his fighting style looks like something out of West Side Story. It is more ballet than martial arts. And when he actually fights his nemesis, the right hand man of evil Ben Gazarra they look more like they are doing a primal ritualistic mating dance and when they are threatening each other and trying to intimidate each other they appear like they may start pounding each other vigorously and I don't mean in combat. Then you have the great dialogue like "pain don't hurt" and the repetitive unfunny running joke, "I thought you'd be taller". Good god! Who wrote this crap! The fact that they have females in the movie is a total joke because Dalton appears to be interested in only one thing truely and that is dominating and engaging in man on man physical contact. Oh and don't let me forget his shirtless tai chi as the evil villian watches the every move of his oiled pecs. And the fact that he finishes off his main nemesis in a fight, near a lake with grey cotten sweat pants on and that he has an obvious boner as he pummels the bad guy submission is one of the most unitentionally funny things ever filmed. SWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYZE!
I can't go on. This movie is so bad and is so unintentionally gay or homoerotic (I think... but who knows what was in the mind of the writer and director) that it is a must see and a 5 star movie. It confuses me because it IS so bad and so moronic and so macho and so completely dumb from head to toe that it is great.
What the hell Sam Elliot and Ben Gazarra are doing in something this dumb is beyond me. I can't even figure out why Red West, legendary best friend, high school buddy and body guard of Elvis is doing in this stupid movie. Swayze is perfect because he is a hack actor and just what an 80's action star should be: 1)gay 2)feminine 3)stupid 4) a bad actor 5)able to deliver the dumbest of lines with all the believability in his soul can muster.
JESUS THIS MOVIE IS STUPID!
Rating: -
As other reviewers have pointed out, Road House is hardly worthy of any awards, but boy, is it an enjoyable ride! It's like a train wreck that you just can't tear yourself away from.
Patrick Swayze, who was the It Guy back in the late 80s, stars as philosophy spouting, NYU educated cooler Dalton. Not to be confused with a bouncer, Dalton comes in only when the bouncers have too much on their plates. Apparently his specialty is cleaning up honky tonk cesspools, by "taking out the trash" and making them into "enjoyable" money-making ventures. Dalton is apparently so good at his job that he is known by one name only and apparently his reputation preceeds him. Indeed - - Dalton later tells the town doctor that he is only good at one thing (and no, it isn't that - - it's fighting). Which provides one of the many conflicts in this movie - - Dalton is renowned for his cooling skills and fighting, but at the same time he preaches peace, reads philosophy books and practices Tai Chi.
Many impracticalities aside, the film is chock full of great music (Jeff Healey), fight scenes, nudity (male and female), big trucks, overacting, drinking, breaking glass, lots and lots of cigarette smoking and, did I say, overacting?
Dalton shows up in small, stereotypical rednecky Jasper, to clean up the local dive bar more commonly known as the Double Deuce, which is apparently the ONLY bar in town. He runs in to the predictable problems, from employees that steal, deal drugs, pick fights to the usual bad guy who runs the whole town, played by Ben Gazzara who has a strange fetish for fedora hats in this movie. Along the way, he meets and promptly falls for the town doctor, played by Kelly Lynch who is about as believable as an emergency room doctor as Dalton's fellow one-named wonder Madonna would be. To make matters worse, not only does "Doc" have a fondness for wearing girlie dresses that were hijacked from a tablecloth sale (think red gingham), but she was formerly involved with Bad Guy Ben Gazzara - - who still carries a torch for her. Her godawful fashion sense aside, it really makes you wonder how intelligent this lady doc could be, getting involved with the local scumbucket. This alone should make Dalton jump in his Mercedes and leave town pronto, but of course, he digs his heels in and determines that he must make a stand against the town bully. Which is all fine and dandy, but why on earth didn't the residents of the town ever think to do that before Dalton showed up?
Sam Elliot makes a much too brief appearance as Dalton's mentor, Wade. Although the role is small and nearly as ridiculous and stereotypical as the rest of the roles, Sam Elliot is always a joy to watch and has to be one of the most underrated actors ever to appear on the screen.
The film wraps up with the predictable conclusion, giving us an inside look to the town bully's inner compound, which is surprisingly spartan and cheesey. The Double Deuce has also cleaned up quite nicely, with lines and lines of non-parolee type clientele waiting to get in (WHERE did these people come from?)
If you are looking for a serious film, stay away . . . stay far, far away. But if you want some mindless, cheesey fun - - a film that is almost campy but takes itself seriously, Road House is a great answer. There is some violence and the aforementioned nudity - - and of course language - - but once the 80s ended, they quit making them like this!
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