Truly Dreadful Film

One of those movie experiences that is so good it makes you realize you've been grading everything else on a curve.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

How come these cigarette smoking, beer drinking, sex overusing dudes can do so nicely in a fight? Young generation, beware! This is not what you do to become physically strong!

After seeing this movie promoted and satirized for over 20 years I thought it was finally time I watched it (really had no desire to ever see this when I was young, and now I know why). This has to be one of the dumbest, most insanely ridiculous movies ever made. Almost every scene and the entire plot was so laughably fake and ridiculous, it's amazing to me anyone in this film was ever able to land another acting, directing, or writing job after this (not sure about the latter two)! I mean come on, the daily "bar fights" where they're destroying half the bar doing $10,000-30,000 worth of damgae and everyone sits by like this happens every night. It immediately brought to mind the flashback scene in Airplane!, where "a fight broke out almost every night"....it was that ridiculously staged and directed. Give me a break. I don't care what "subplot" they had going on, if that kind of damage was done to a bar every night, they coudln't stay in business more than 2 days, even if they were being run by the mob! They'd have to rebuild the place, order tens of thousands of dollars of new furniture and liquor every day. What a joke!!! Then the cliched and hackneyed scene, one after the other, where the story just centers around Patrick Swayze's chest and a bunch of 3rd-rate actors giving each other "evil eye"! I love how everyone from big fat guys, to the 50-60 year old owners and crooked townspeople, apparently know Ju Jit Su can fight off entire crowds Bruce Lee stytle....LOFL!!! I've seen a lot of bad 80's movies in my day (and many that have held up extremely well over the years...this is definitely not one of them, as it was never worth even filming to begin with)! I laughed so hard at almost every line of dialogue and laughable scene that took itself so seriously. If you gave this a good review, you must have doo-doo for brains. If you own this movie, you must be mentally challenged and should really take an IQ test. Haahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!

The filmmakers aimed this one squarely at their audience: women, do you like staring breathlessly at Patrick Swayze, and men, do you like watching Patrick Swayze win loads of bar fights? That's pretty clearly what was in their mind when they wrote it and made it.If you're a yes, sit back and you'll get two hours of solid entertainment led by a story that's was as old as the 80s were when they wrote it. If you're a no, there's nothing at all in it besides Patrick so find something else to do.Bear in mind that Patrick doesn't do anything wrong here - he does what he's paid to do, which is be sultry and 'the best', and he does it very, very well. No wonder he made the film and no wonder Patrick's fans, mostly female, were delighted with what they got given.

Road House (1989) is my personal favorite number 1 film from Patrick Swayze. This film stands alone as Patrick Swayze's best work in my opinion. It is an action classic that I grew up with it, I am a fan of Patrick Swayze and I can say it is his best action film! I love this film I grew up watching it as a kid. It is my third favorite Patrick Swayze movie and It is a action martial arts classic childhood! I love this film to death I love it so damn much and I love Steel Dawn and Black Dog to death the same as I love Road House. Road House will always be his best film he work with it. I can say Nomad, Dalton and Jack Crews are Patrick's favorite characters of mine he ever played! My mom loved to watching him in her favorite miniseries North and South it was her favorite show that she talked about with me.Plot: Dalton (Patrick Swayze) is the best bar bouncer in the business, but he's anything but "typical." He's a little small for his trade, has a degree in philosophy and he believes in "being nice." But when he's hired to clean up the Double Deuce in the small town of Jasper, he's pushed to his breaking point. Discovering Jasper is controlled by an evil sadist (Ben Gazzara) who doesn't want anyone meddling with "his" town. After he sends his goons to bust up the Double Deuce, all hell breaks loose. Now it's "no more nice guy" for Dalton as he starts busting heads, leading him to the all-time, no-holds-barred, butt whooping showdown of the century.There is a lot of action in this film, a lot of kickboxing and a lot's of fights in it. Patrick Swayze does a really good fight scenes, I think Patrick Swayze does really good job with a fight scenes, he does very solid job I mean really bottom in my heart I really miss Patrick Swayze I really do, that he is no longer with us. Road House is my favorite film, it has a lot of action and kickboxing fight scenes, Patrick Swayze does a really good job playing a hero for an late 80's action flick it is pretty good and I love it. It is definitely my favorite Patrick Swayze film. Road House is a film that I will always cherish and I definitely don't agree with people who doesn't like this film.You have an epic martial art's fight between Dalton (Swayze) and Jimmy (Marshall Teague) watch the fight carefully Dalton uses eagle claws technique when kills Jimmy. The choreography is a mix of various martial art styles evident in the variety of locks, throws, kicks and punches as used in Kickboxing, Hapkido and Jujitsu, with a particularly impressive flying kick from Swayze himself. The grueling work put in by the actors is visible in their strained expressions adding that no-holds-barred street fight feel to a fight scene packed with some excellent technical maneuvers.I love the beautiful music score on the end of the film When the Night Comes Falling from the Sky by The Jeff Healey Band which is very beautiful song on the end of the credits. I love the final showdown between Dalton and Wesley on the end of the movie and the happy ending.This film is directed by Rowdy Herrington who made some pretty good movies that I like, Gladiator and Striking Distance with Bruce Willis which is definitely my Bruce Willis's favorite action thriller film. The rest of the cast did also good job, Sam Elliott also did a terrific support cast, the same as actor Ben Gazzara as the villain who is sadly no longer with us anymore. Kelly Lynch was also good as Swayze's love interest. I am hearing that Nick Cassavetes is planning a remake about this film which it is unnecessary. There was a sequel about this film that I don't care for.R.I.P. - Patrick Swayze (1952 - 2009) I really miss you so much and I wish you could do more bad ass action movies, I am your biggest fan and so was my mom we all miss you and we all love you, I love you to death! Road House (why doesn't THAT film get the cult/appreciation/notice of this POS), Uncommon Valor, Steel Dawn (underrated) and Black Dog are my top 4 favorite Patrick Swayze movies he ever did! This movie get's 10 out 10 the best action martial arts movie ever made!