Road House (2024) — Review: An Awesome Movie with Not Much Substance
by KJ Proulx
I can’t remember the last time I watched a new movie and had so much fun watching it that I forgot I was just watching something that was just okay overall. After finally getting around to seeing the original Road House, I can say that I thoroughly enjoy it, but if you’re a fan of that movie and hope for the same with this version, I would temper those thoughts. This version does its own thing and only takes the bones of the original story, as well as some character names. For what this movie is, it will be a movie I recommend and mention for a bit, simply due to how much fun I had with it. It’s not great by any means though, so let’s dive into it.
Elwood Dalton (Jake Gyllenhaal), an Ex-UFC fighter, takes a job working at a Road House in Florida, where he is meant to maintain peace and clean up the terrible nightly patrons. What comes into play shortly after this is that Ben Brandt (Billy Magnussen) wishes to tear down the Road House to build condos. I’ll be honest, that plotline almost completely ruined the movie at first for me because that is the villain storyline in so many terrible movies in the past, but I went with it. Magnussen’s performance as that character was hammy enough to enjoy anyway, so when his character evolves and sends out Knox (Conor McGregor) to take out Dalton, the…
