Why Road House (2024) Is Darker and Better Than the Original
While the Road House remake can’t equal the insane charm of the 1989 original, the remake surpasses the original in other areas.
When the first Road House film was released in 1989, audiences and critics expected it to be a conventional action film with Patrick Swayze as a professional bouncer who attempts to free a small-town Missouri roadside bar from the clutches of a sadistic tyrant. However, while the actioner is packed with brutal violence from beginning to end, it also elicits as much laughter as any successful comedy film of its era and far beyond. With its B-movie spirit, outrageous dialogue, and various idiotic strokes of genius, Road House has become a definitive so-bad-it’s-good cult classic.
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