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Reviews Counted:26
Fresh:11
Rotten:15
Average Rating:5.1/10
Runtime: 3 hrs 48 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: Patrick Swayze stars in this modern-day Western as a tough guy who has poetic instincts and drives a Mercedes. Fresh from earning his doctorate in Eastern Philosophy from New York University,... [More]
Starring: Patrick Swayze, Ben Gazzara, Kelly Lynch, Sam Elliott
Director: Rowdy Herrington
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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.
I hated this movie as a teen. Haven't seen it since.
Road House is much funnier than most comedies, until it turns vile instead of just stupid.
Though it doesn't say so anywhere in the film, Road House must be set on another planet where the inhabitants resemble humans. This can't be the world I live in.
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A forgettable fist-flinging fable that's as ridiculously raucous as it is relevant. Swayze flexes his movie muscles needlessly in this dingy and disjointed drama
Road House lays out its story with the subtlety of a wrestling match, and probably with less sharpness or savvy.
Top Critic...your quintessential dumb, macho, guy's movie, with gratuitous sex and violence at every turn.
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the gayest thing next to a gladiator movie
The grotesque soon drowns out the giggles.
Top CriticThis is not a good movie. But viewed in the right frame of mind, it is not a boring one, either.
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Its vigilante justice, lawlessness and wanton violence feel ludicrous in a modern setting.
Good-natured enough, but essentially an excuse for lots of mindless violence perpetrated by one-dimensional characters.
Mindless entertainment of the highest order.
Road House gets by on dingbat charm.
Very cool, Very fast, and more action than the L.A Freeway. Perfect Popcorn Entertainment.
...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."
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