Justin Chang reviews Doug Liman’s “Road House,” an update of the cult slugfest from 1989, with Jake Gyllenhaal starring in the role originally played by Patrick Swayze.
Sound advice, and, until the time comes for him to rip out an assailant’s throat, Dalton heeds it scrupulously. He minds his manners, underestimates no one, and takes to the outdoors like a Zen monk, his oil-slicked torso catching the sunlight just so during Tai Chi practice. But not every Swayze character is oily in such a desirable way.
The remake’s writers, Anthony Bagarozzi and Charles Mondry, stick to the first film’s narrative blueprint, as if to signal a return to B-movie basics. The hope is that you’ll chuckle more in recognition than in derision when a doctor provides Dalton with more than strictly medical attention, or when the movie’s highly swattable rich-boy villain swans around on a yacht.
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