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Forget “Dirty Dancing”: Patrick Swayze’s career peaked in this and the similarly underrated “Point Wreck.” It doesn’t quite approach the stratospheric heights (or is it depths? ) of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s deservedly legendary “Commando,” but “Road House” is serene the stuff of which B-movie memoir is made. Starring Swayze as the head bouncer at a rowdy Southern bar called the Double Deuce, “Road House” derives its appeal largely from the ingenious concept of having a bunch of rednecks for villains. You catch to recognize Swayze’s Dalton, perhaps the only Mercedes-driving, philosophy-majoring bouncer in history, recall on a seemingly endless succession of slack-jawed inbred troglodytes as he tames the Double Deuce and ensures victory for truth, justice, and the American plot.

The Double Deuce is one of the those bars where it seems half the patrons are on parole, but that doesn’t discontinuance them from throwing fists at the proverbial fall of a hat. I’ve always believed that bar fights held colossal, untapped potential for the action genre, and this movie more than delivers the goods in that department. There are about five solid bar brawls in “Road House,” with glass flying around, Dalton employing his martial-arts expertise against dimwitted thugs in tight jeans, and blind guitar whiz Jeff Healey providing some rock-solid background music. Suffice to say, if you’re looking for a sparkling and dignified peruse at life in the South, you won’t catch it here. A slump to the Double Deuce promises to be as improper and brutish as Hobbes’s residence of nature, and a lot more fun to eye.

And even for those who can mediate of nothing that beats Patrick Swayze as an action hero, it gets better: they got Sam Elliott, one of America’s most underrated actors ever, to play Dalton’s long-haired, hard-living friend Wade! With an unkempt white mane and that unmistakable Southern train, Wade dispenses plenty of rapier wit along with some …-whippings before outliving his usefulness. You also accept to discover Ben Gazzara, slumming it as the snake-like villain Brad Wesley, somehow manage to enjoy a semblance of dignity in a movie that seems committed to insulting your intelligence every chance it gets. And as Dalton’s care for interest, Kelly Lynch adds limited in the scheme of location advancement or dialogue, but she does provide some nice scenery… buying it.

To avoid any confusion, by rating this movie 5 stars I am NOT suggesting that it is in the same league as GLADIATOR, THE LORD OF THE RINGS (trilogy), GONE WITH THE WIND or any other top-calibre flick. However, this film doesn’t try to compete with the likes of top-rated movies, and that’s the beauty of it.

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The record is based on a favorable bar bouncer (Patrick Swayze) who is compelled to call in his weak mentor (Sam Elliot) for an especially tough project. Instead of unbiased busting heads and throwing hoodlums out of the bar, these guys slay up having to establish the whole town!

This is a B-movie all the intention. In my conception, it COULD be the greatest B-movie of all time. In short, despite being dumb it is also immensely curious. The dwelling is contrived. There are aspects of it that are plot, plot beyond being remotely believable. It seems the whole movie was inspired by pushing the envelope on the notion of the bar brawl.

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Despite its minute space, the DVD is surprisingly watchable. I’ve seen it at least 4 times and it’s always fun to re-watch. Patrick Swazye’s grand acting talents are wasted in this farce, but that’s OK. The film contains a nice sampling of gratuitous nudity, and Kelly Lynch is not exactly hard on the eyes.

So, if you want to peek a movie with minimum seriousness and maximum action, hang a left into the Roadhouse tonight. You won’t be disappointed.
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