By Gary

Prime Video’s Road House might feel like a streaming site movie but it does so in all the best ways.

Ex-UFC fighter Dalton takes a job as a bouncer at a Florida Keys roadhouse, only to discover that this paradise is not all it seems.

I don’t really remember the original, I presume I watched it but it was a long time ago in a galaxy far away, so I will not compare the two.

Part fight showcase, part generic crime thriller, the Road House remake tosses its plot this way and that.

It is exactly what it needs to be.

A self-serious yet simultaneously very silly modern day riff on the Western that’s packed with testosterone, crunchy action and jokes in the most unexpected places.

It feels like a streaming movie in some distracting ways but it still remains one of the better ones.

The movie’s saving grace is Jake Gyllenhaal who is clearly having a lot of fun in the role, bringing a natural intensity to Dalton as well as an impressive physical commitment.

It’s the possibility of his rage that he always keeps at bay that makes him so watchable in this role as he beats up his enemies and then makes sure they’re okay before actually driving them to the hospital.

From the moment he’s introduced, Conor McGregor is definitely something. It’s the kind of performance that’s never boring and never good.

Every single line is delivered in hilariously awful fashion and yet he’s one of the best parts of the film as he takes a very generically unhinged villain and makes it his own.

Doug Liman’s direction certainly has a lot of energy as it alternates between fights in the first person, drone shots and simply getting as close as possible to the action.

The fights themselves have a real weight to them with the heaviest blows really being felt however, some of the flourishes used to stitch them together distract rather than enhance.

To sum up I would recommend this as it is on Prime Video, so you don’t even have to leave the house.

My Rating: 7/10