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Its vigilante justice, lawlessness and wanton violence feel ludicrous in a modern setting.
Road House is much funnier than most comedies, until it turns vile instead of just stupid.
The grotesque soon drowns out the giggles.
Road House lays out its story with the subtlety of a wrestling match, and probably with less sharpness or savvy.
This is not a good movie. But viewed in the right frame of mind, it is not a boring one, either.
An immensely enjoyable slice of romanticised fisticuffs, this is a Western in every respect except the stetsons and six guns.
Good-natured enough, but essentially an excuse for lots of mindless violence perpetrated by one-dimensional characters.
Swayze kicks some serious ass
Swayze is up to a part that requires him merely to show his muscles and dexterity, but Gazzara is trapped in his hopelessly evil caricature, leaving Sam Elliott (in a too-limited role) to provide the film's only real charm.
Badass brawls, broken beer bottles, booming beats, big boobs and bad blood.
As trite and clichéd as the screenplay is, two additional commentary options are so clever that it's like going to watch a really bad movie with awfully funny people--the kind who make side comments the whole time.
'Road House' is a terrible movie, and by 'terrible' I mean 'awesome.'
...it's hard to go wrong with a film that features such choice bits of dialogue as "nobody ever wins a fight," "be nice until it's time to not be nice," and, of course, "pain don't hurt."
Mindless entertainment of the highest order.
the gayest thing next to a gladiator movie
Very cool, Very fast, and more action than the L.A Freeway. Perfect Popcorn Entertainment.
I hated this movie as a teen. Haven't seen it since.
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