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Jake Gyllenhaal’s ‘Road House’ Remake Is All Fight and No Fun
Jake Gyllenhaal’s charms can’t save the new Prime Video remake of ‘Road House,’ which also stars Conor McGregor
The big problem is that though Gyllenhaal brings his enviable screen presence (and boasts abs that would make any Ken jealous), Road House ultimately devolves into a Serious Movie and demands the audience to treat it as such. Less is more: There’s no need to endure the rigamarole of low-rent explosions and a crocodile attack and that boat chase when it’s much more satisfying to see the confident Dalton extol his knowledge about the anatomy of the human body and then disarming a man’s finger so he can’t pull a trigger. Road House recently made headlines because director Doug Liman was incensed that the studio decided to skip a theatrical release and go straight to streaming on Prime Video.
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