Conor McGregor looks and acts like a cartoonish character straight out of GTA Vice City, complete with PS2 animation and all...

Point Break. Red Dawn. Road House. Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (even if Swayze was in that one)..I think we have enough evidence that you can’t recapture what Patrick Swayze brought to the table. That mix of athleticism, goofiness, attractiveness, sensitivity and charm is hard to replicate. Only maybe Kurt Russell and Keanu can bring those kinds of combinations, but not all at the same time like Swayze. He was the right actor at the right time for a particular kind of movie, I don’t think we can quite recapture

The fact that there's so many people that saw this movie without seeing the original makes me feel old and grumpy.

Roadhouse was the "Big Mac" of 80's movies... Enjoyable, but it doesn't contain anything good for us. I love it!!!

The Double Deuce makes a cameo in this movie. It's the name of the restaurant next to the book store.

Watched it last night and quite enjoyed it but i like mindless chessy action films, so it was right up my alley.

This Road House is pure Live Action Florida Man Anime and I accept I will die alone on this hill of madness.🙃 A bonkers masterpiece worthy of the cult classic treatment 😅 Always a pleasure to get your take on films, Dan 🙂

Jake Gyllenhaal is my favorite actor for exactly the reasons you give early in the review. He's all-in in pretty much every role he's ever taken and he does a lot of work. I'm gonna check this out this weekend, I don't expect it to be great but I always enjoy a Gyllenhaal performance. Great review Dan :)

If Connor McGregor's character in this movie and Elizabeth bank's Rita Repulsa had a baby that baby would be the most absurd villan of all time.

the fight scenes were pretty good. Very brutal and real looking when the camera was trying to be "tricky", and Jack Gyllenhaal does a great job, but overall, it wasn't over the top in the right ways and it was too over the top in the wrong ways, so... I'll just watch the original again if I am looking for a cheesy 80's style action movie.

I think there's a big problem with movies today that doesn't get talked about enough. Most movies today are made for critics first. The og Roadhouse (along with other 80s classics like Commando, Bloodsport, the Troma movies et ) was made for it's audience, criticism be damned. In fact, a lot of movies were unapologetic f' you's to movie critics. We need more of that. People with a vision to make movies for likeminded individuals instead of trying to satisfy the legion of online movie "experts". (Dan is a dope reviewer so I don't include him in that.)

Didn't think this Roadhouse film would be so strange.

Watched this last night and thought it was a fun movie. I agree they took some things a bit too serious, but overall had a good time.

I wonder if Jake Gyllenhaal getting his real breakout role in a film with Patrick Swayze had anything to do with this film.

the movie was not taking itself to serious. And Conor was really fun

The only review on this movie I completely agree with! Also, so many little things didn't make sense to me. Most of the characters in this film are just too young. Like the owner of the Road House.. haha I'm sure dude. Idk.. My fav thing you said that just really resonated with me was, "It's not to be taken seriously.." "..the worst possible thing you can do, is ask us to take it seriously." I 100% agree.

Honestly, Patrick Wilson would have better matched the Dalton character that Patrick Swayze portrayed.

There was a bar called the Double Deuce in my city, and I just realized why.

It was fun and awesome! The scene where Connor was holding onto the boat underwater was 🔥🔥

I didn't know about this until two days ago, when I saw a TV ad. It's incredible how much faith executives have in titles. This was never going to go far enough to NOT be unfavorably compared to the Road House name. But the plot sounds like the "fake curse on Rick's club" episode of Magnum, P.I., except with Conor McGregor in place of a curse. How about making a few Magnum movies with an unexpectedly jacked Rick?

Be sure to watch the end credits... to the end.

Jake Gyllenhaal carried it. And he had a little help at times from the technical team. A little bit.

There's a certain cache that people often over look when it comes to certain eras of entertainment... the 80s/early 90s have that "this is ridiculous but damn im having a good time" cache when it comes to action movies. 48 hours, lethal weapon, Rambo, Beverly hills cop... making them today would just end up coming of as generic simply because the era CALLED for the style of film. Roadhouse is one of those movies. Like sure you could remake it but I didn't watch road house because it was simply a good movie, it wasn't, I watched it because it was just a lot of fun to watch

So since I had never seen the original Roadhouse, we did a double header starting with the new Road House 1st and then the OG - the new one was fun, but then watching the OG it was unbelievable how different and how superior it was. Jake is a great actor, and very charismatic, but he couldn’t come close to the charm and sexiness of Swayze, and the new Road House was completely undone by whatever cartoon Conor McGregor was in. And I actually disagree with Dan that the OG Road House wasn’t to be taken seriously - the villain is the poster child for Violent Greed, and the sadness Swayze felt at his best friends demise was palpable. I absolutely loved it….the OG one, that is. The new one? Eh, it was ok.

I vaguely remember the original, but I kinda feel like it entered pop culture with that episode of Family Guy about 15 years ago that heavily referenced it.

I never saw the original. I enjoyed the cheese of the remake. Conor I found hamming it up too much. I liked the "you won't like it when I'm angry". Jake is very charming and can't do wrong...

I like how you say remakes of silly movies shouldn't ask us to take them seriously. That's kind of how I felt about Ghostbusters: Afterlife but I wasn't quite sure how to say it before, just a totally different tone than Ghostbusters (1984).

Fun popcorn movie! Not every movie needs to be Oscar worthy

I thought the truck attack on the bridge seen was a dream sequence because the CGI came out of a Fast & Furious physics text book. Did they retrofit the truck with the engine from a Tesla Plaid?

I’ll steal a comment I saw on IG, “It’s not the worst movie ever made. It’s close but not the worst.”

I actually thought the opposite, Connor McGregor injected more life into the movie as I was dying from boredom and Gyllenhaal’s tired performance. He wasn’t Zen like Swayze, nor did he try to give it his own spin. It was dull and so was the action, but I appreciate your take.

I never for a single moment thought that the film ever tried to take itself seriously. It actually leaned into hamming it up and jumping the shark.

Roadhouse! (kick sound effect) looks better than the Crow re-boot.

Does anyone know whos body was in the ice cooler in the old houseboat.

Great vid. Road House AKA Reacher season 3. Was definitely made for streaming. Connor McGregor was essentially playing the Joker. He was a chaotic person who didn’t care what happened. Which isn’t bad on paper. But even at the end of the movie we don’t know why this particular place was that important. That someone would knowingly bring in his chaos. Why building around the bar and taxing hiking her out was not an option like all places where gentrification happens. But you’re right. It’s perfectly fine. He laughed out loud in some spots

I find Doug Liman's comments interesting in view of the lack of a theatrical release. Maybe he was expecting (or was promised by) Amazon / MGM to treat the movie something similarly to the way they treated Air about a year ago, which did pretty respectably i think in the theatrical market before going to streaming after a month or two. But since Air, i don't think any Amazon / MGM movies have had a significant wide theatrical platform (apart from American Fiction, which was always positioned as their awards contender). So it begs the question : did Amazon / MGM rethink their overall theatrical strategy after Air, or is it just that Liman had more faith in Road House than the studio did? Thanks for the review Dan.

Was wondering about this one. Best review channel on KZfaq.

it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if it came out that some executive at Amazon, who'd never saw Roadhouse but new the basic plot, came across a generic action movie storyline about a guy hired to protect a Bar and decided to change a few names and call it a remake. they story is a basic ripoff of about a hundred Westerns (which they even reference in the movie), as well as about a thousand different action movies, especially the whole "Fighter who accidentally killed someone and regrets it" thing which has been used relatively recently in Hard Target 2 & Undisputed 4. it's an enjoyable movie, but calling it Roadhouse does nothing but get it unfavourably compared to a much better film.

Roadhouse is one of the movies that I remember exactly were I was when I first saw it a few years ago. My husband was in the hospital (he's better now ;) ). We were in his room when the movie came on TV, it was one 80's things we ever seen. And honestly the cheesy and ridiculous thing we both needed at the time. I feel like this is how the movie should be. I'm not sure if it needed to be remade but if they weren't going to have as much fun as the original, count me out at least for now.

I thought Jake G went through the whole movie like he knew the film sucked and just wanted it to be over. Also dropping the Wade character was a huge mistake. Could have had a killer cameo there. Imagine Jean Claude Van Damme as Wade

Dan's right some concepts are designed for parody. Look at 80s classics such as Airplane! or the Monty Python movies. They wouldn't be such well-made stories if they took themselves so seriously.

I had fun watching it I went into it with no expectations just wanting to see some fun over the top action scenes, and I felt like it delivered on that

There were very few unruly patrons at this bar aside from occasional people

I also got to see it in a theater! And, yes, the roof was still intact at the end credits. I generally enjoyed it. I could see what they wanted to do - even if they didn't accomplish it. The one problem I had at the outset was this: in the original, Dalton is brought in because he is the best of the best bouncer. It's what he does professionally. In this one he's just a great MMA fighter. What does that have to do with being a bouncer? Sure, he can fight, but in the original Patrick Swayze says you should just be nice...until it's time to not be nice. He de-escalates fights. And this movie really, really needed Sam Elliot. But all movies need Sam Elliot.

I love the original roadhouse it was very entertaining and exciting and it does have the keynote musical score from Die Hard and Lethal Weapon

I dug this way more than I should have tbh. It lost me at times when it goes “serious tone,” but overall I had a blast with it and imo it heightened a lot of the crazy stuff I loved about the OG. Gylenhaal is magic! And Conor’s big dumb idiot assassin persona was seriously a trip and I ate it up lol

Just got done watching the original (finally after all these years!) and this remake and I enjoyed the original immensely, both the good and the bad aspects of it. It’s not an Oscar worthy classic but it is a fun cheesy 80’s action flick and definitely one of my personal cheesy favorites that I’ll be rewatching occasionally. Remake on the other hand was a remake in all the bad ways. It was the same movie for most of it but it just didn’t have any of that 80’s magic. There were small changes done with the remake and all of them were things that worked less when they were changed or those changes felt just completely pointless. We didn’t even get the awesome rock that the original had. That one had great and recognizable songs while this version got barely anything. And most of the acting was very weak. Conor McGregor was really bad but at least he was bad in a funny and goofy way, unlike everyone else (except Gyllenhaal). He was one of the best things about this remake in a so bad it’s good way. It’s just too bad that his character was so insignificant to the overall story. He could and should have just been some goon that Magnussen hired. Overall it’s much like Dan said, this is yet another one of those reboots that will probably be forgotten about in a few months while the original will still be remembered years from now as a cult classic like how it is remembered today. 80’s was a magical time for movies that shouldn’t have worked half as well as they ended up working because somehow they were elevated by the 80’s cheese and you just can’t recapture that today, no matter how you try. P.S. Great review Dan! I felt it was very accurate and fitting, just like always.

I found zero flaws with this film. It did what it was made to do. Doug and the writer were a great team here and I hope they continue to be a team going forward. Comedy and action hit every time.

The original Roadhouse was iconic in my opinion! Haven't seen the new one yet but I'll be watching it this week!

The new Road House is a good flick. I enjoyed it.

Better then I expected, over the top fun. Loved it.

I got up to where the book store burnt down and that was enough for me Set sail for epic fail.

I like the way it was shot. It looks crisp and clean and I really enjoyed the atmosphere, and location. Florida is gorgeous, this film has that Wild things buzz about it. Jake was incredible as usual, when he did that crazy eye thing I had to rewind like 5 times, that was excellent and hilarious. Conner was better than OK imho, not a great actor, but he had a really good on-screen presence about him. He carried himself really well. It's fine is a great way to score this imho.

The first hour I enjoyed, it was fun but the second part when they're at sea and crashing speedboats into each other and flying from one boat to the next and then I am sure a truck gets involved in this I just checked out completely. Getting run over by speeding cars in this movie does absolutely nothing but catapult you to a new location . Everyone was raving about how great Connor was but all he seemed to do was swagger about with a dumb smile on his face. I did enjoy his two fights with Jake though

Just finished this tonight. Really enjoyed it. I enjoyed the original too.

"The best part about the original Roadhouse is that it was a silly movie that didn't take itself seriously and that's what made it fun, the worst thing you could do when remaking a movie like this is ask us to take it seriously and that's what 2024 Roadhouse asks us to do." Damn Dan, if I wasn't already subscribed, this would have made me. You really get it, and you're able to say what I'm thinking better than I can sometimes. Great review. It's a shame that Jake Gyllenhaal gets so wasted in this movie.

I thought it was actually great, on point humor, well directed and super fun and entertaining

Dan!!! Hell yeah!

Holy shit you have the Lego Ghostbusters Firehouse? That thing is EXPENSIVE.

Watched this with my son over the weekend. He loved it and I really enjoyed it too. A good fun movie.

Apparently this reviewer didn't notice the restaurant beside the book store was called Double Deuce. Also the punch to the throat killing the guy in the pool was a clear reference to the throat rip out in the original.

Never seen the old one…I like this new one A LOT!!

Heeeeell YEEEEES!! Roadhouse baby!! Watch them back to back. Original THEN 2024 version !

Good film, I actually really enjoyed it. I enjoyed it a lot especially compared to how some people have been talking about it. It was funny and the action was great. I’d actually like a sequel and see the plot threads for it.

The movie absolutely works.

Goin' to the roadhouse, gonna have a real ... or perhaps not.

Billy feels like he would’ve been perfect for the more campy crazy tone this should’ve been - shame he didn’t get the material. He keeps just missing out on the role or project to get him to that next level to match his talent

This is a perfect review of this movie

Being a Gen X’er, and a fan of the original movie, I watched this movie expecting the worst, But surprisingly I was mostly entertained & satisfied considering it was a modern movie, Of course the original is still much better.

1989 is now considered classic...I feel old lol

It was.... less than mid, really. A "gritty" Scooby-Doo storyline. 1. They handled this cage fighter like he a cross between Jack Reacher and Jason Bourne. 2. The thugs and bikers act like video NPCs. 3. Why make this guy a one-man-army and give him the backstory of a cage fighter? UFC fighters aren't super heros. 4. He's a brand new bouncer and the drug lord is treating him like he's law enforcement. 5. Why is he so casual about dealing with actual drug lords? Bar fights, yea. But going up against the biggest drug lord in the state, alone, and so casually... No. 6. Felt more like 2015 action-comedy spoof at times. 7. This was a Scooby-Doo plot, basically. 8. McGregor... 9. Should've just set it in the 80s and then it would have felt like it was natural. 10. Please don't start a franchise from this...

I realized yesterday that Jake Gyllenhaal is my favorite actor. By far.

Sad … I’ll still watch it, since I’m an oldhead & I REALLY enjoyed the Patrick Swayze version decades ago.

Aha, the original Road House from '89 all the sudden became a cult classic..?! That's new to me 😅 nostalgia can be strange sometimes...

Roadhouse 2024 definitely didn't take itself seriously.

I’m a huge McGregor fan and overall I enjoyed the movie but I found myself cringing from time to time. observing everything from His tone to mannarisms left me feeling like the screen writers did him no favors. The cheeky one liners just didn’t do it for me. The fight scenes on the other hand were extremely impressive so with that added into it I would have to give McGregor a 7 out of 10 for his debut. and if I’m giving the movie a grade, I would have to say B+. Overall

I thought it was f**king brilliant! Best action movie in years

Another banger - thanks Dan!

I watched this remake last night [at time of comment]...and for me, I'd call it like this: As a Friday Night romp/remake...it was good, it had all the ingredients for a goodie/baddie battle...brief story history of the protagonist...and gets to the point. However!...for me, it didn't have that family-vibe built between the characters like the original did. The original with Swayze broke the mould...It was by an era...for an era. That being said, the ridiculousness of baddies getting severly beaten up/stabbed and "literally" coming back worked in this CGI-Punches version, as you know what you're getting, and it doesn't have to take itself seriously...My childhood era vis the original will never be surpassed "in terms of its enduring staying-power over the past 35+yrs] but this modern version, with fantastic physiques to aspire to/the fights/the action/a scarilly-wild Conor McGregor...It's good...I give the original 1989 version an 8.5/10...and the 2024 remake 7.5/10....

Agreed with your take.

Sounds like the Total Recall, Robocop, Red Dawn remakes.

The reviews for the remake are only leading me to watch one of those notable 80’s movies that I’ve never watched

Doesn't even beat out Ricky Stanicky for a lazy weekend watch imo

I loved this movie it’s an action movie from the cloth of the 90s

I watched the movie last night it was all right. What a coincidence I'm also wearing a X-Men t-shirt

So a room full of critics weren't wowed by the action film. I'm think a theater filled with people there to see Jake's abs or to see the MMA guy do his thing would have had a wildly different reaction than people at a work function.

Not watching this remake grabage. Millennials and Zombies would think a turd on a plate looked appetizing if you added sprinkles on top.

Never saw the original but I did really enjoy this remake. But of course I don't need every film that I watch to be the best thing I've ever seen. It was entertaining. The story is simple but effective and the fight scenes were great. Conor McGregor can't act, but let's be honest, none of us are going to say that to his face. And yes, Jake Gyllenhaal was absolutely the best part of the film.

@Dan come on man, this movie did not ask us to take it serious. I fully enjoyed it. Conor was not working 100%, but he does bring the "fear of the villain" with him, due to the fact that we all know how good he actually is at fighting. Also - The music was fantastic, and the love story was unnecessary. But they almost always are in "action films".

I never liked the original, not even for its silly fun. This movie without a star like Jake had to be a no-go, but with him, I think it´s watchable. It has some good scenes, not mindblowing but ok. It´s a Statham-movie for me, with a better main-actor and some lightness to it. I like your review.

Thanks Dan

As an MMA fan, I don't know what is more hilarious: seeing Conor McGregor in a movie or knowing non-MMA fans are oblivious to how ridiculous it is to see Conor McGregor in a movie.

I loved it! And I loved the original too.

cant wait for a sequel

Nailed my thoughts 🤙

The fights (in this movie), especially the speed of the strikes, are too slow for mma/bjj fans. You can tell the writers hadn't had a history of watching mma fights, boxing matches, kickboxing, muay thai, & even wrestling, to realize the importance of integrating the speed of realistic strikes (& feints), (& grappling techniques), as well as the extraordinary athleticism [and fight strategy], of the fighters in those arts (anybody remember "Little Evil's" 12-6 elbow to the top of skull knockout?) Izzy/Anderson Silva/Rampage/Chael/Chuck Liddel/Jon Bones Jones/Wonderboy/Korean Zombie/Bisping/GSP/Mighty Mouse/ Khabib/Cormier/Miocic/Usman/Hughes/BJ Penn/Randy Couture/Ngannou/Tito Ortiz, the list of extraordinary fighters & incredible fights just goes on, and on, and on, there's so much to draw from, and they used so little of all of that for the fight scenes, that it was disappointing.

Conner McGregor plays a good Irish Popeye! Great film with potential but a wtf second act killed it!

The new Roadhouse is a different "it's so bad it's good." This movie is almost Crank 2 levels of insanity. Nothing makes sense in this movie. It's just go. It's amazingly bad...ass.

I was a little disappointed/bored by the end. Like it's not bad but it's just kind of there. Gyllenhaal's portrayal of the Dalton character largely works but I wish there was more for him to do in the first half and some of the fights are fun and there's some good comedic moments but I doubt I'll ever feel compelled to re-watch it

I would have called this movie the glass key A metaphor for his Life He killed his friend in the Octagon Daltom is Shattered ..