Good-natured enough, but essentially an excuse for lots of mindless violence perpetrated by one-dimensional characters.
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04/15/08
Road House (1989)
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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
Reviews for Road House
Top CriticAn immensely enjoyable slice of romanticised fisticuffs, this is a Western in every respect except the stetsons and six guns.
04/15/08
Top CriticMindless entertainment of the highest order.
06/24/06
Top CriticNo review available.
10/28/03
'Road House' is a terrible movie, and by 'terrible' I mean 'awesome.'
07/14/06
This is not a good movie. But viewed in the right frame of mind, it is not a boring one, either.
01/01/00
Top CriticThough 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.
01/01/00
Road House is rootin' tootin' moo-vee makin' at its best. Hats off for working not one but two huge explosions into a movie about bar-fights.
02/05/03
...your quintessential dumb, macho, guy's movie, with gratuitous sex and violence at every turn.
01/30/03
No review available.
06/16/05
Road House gets by on dingbat charm.
02/04/03
the gayest thing next to a gladiator movie
05/31/06
I hated this movie as a teen. Haven't seen it since.
07/25/05
Badass brawls, broken beer bottles, booming beats, big boobs and bad blood.
07/27/06
No review available.
12/07/03
Very cool, Very fast, and more action than the L.A Freeway. Perfect Popcorn Entertainment.
05/15/06
Road House is much funnier than most comedies, until it turns vile instead of just stupid.
05/20/03
Top Critic...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."
07/11/06
The grotesque soon drowns out the giggles.
05/12/01
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