I think I have a Patrick Swayze fascination this past month.  I watched Ghost, The Outsiders and Road House  this past weekend after not seeing it on over 10 years.  It's a shame Patrick Swayze has cancer.  He personified things most men (well, me anyways, ha ha) would want to be: handsome, confident (not cocky), wanted by the ladies, and always makes the bad guys pay for their deeds.  Swayze is someone that seems likeable not only as an actor, but as a person as well.
Road House is about a "cooler" (the head bouncer) named Dalton, played by Patrick Swayze.  He is working as a cooler somewhere in New York.  A man named Frank (Kevin Tighe) owns a bar outside of Kansas City and offers Swayze a short-term contract job to come down there and "clean it up".  Swayze takes the job, quickly fires troublesome/dishonest employees, and gives the famous lines:
"If someone spits in your face/calls you a co-ksucker/if he won't leave when you ask him to....be nice."
'What if someone calls me momma a wh-ore?'  'Is she?'
"You're too stupid to have a good time"
'You don't look like much to me', "Well, opinions vary."


The thing that just doesn't get this movie off the ground is the plot.  The scenario is that the town's richest man Brad Wesley (Ben Gazzara) has made his wealth by using mafia tactics with the local business owners, one of them who is the uncle of a the pretty town doctor whom Dalton falls in love with.  I mean, how could this one man control the town, having all the police 'in his back pocket', and how could no townspeople go outside of the town for help or stand up to him long ago?  There's not that many (big) businesses in this town-an auto parts store, a cafe, a couple car dealerships, and a couple bars tops.  And just how did this town-boss Wesley just get these business owners to fall prey to him?  That was never explained.

While I did like some of the lines from this movie, I found lots of the action scenes to be a little too exaggerated and the plot as well.  I also didn't think Kelly Lynch and Sam Elliot (Wade Garrett, Dalton's mentor) fit in well to this movie nor did they seem to have much chemistry with Swayze.

Recommended:
No

Viewing Format: DVD
Video Occasion: Good for a Rainy Day
Suitability For Children: Suitable for Children Age 13 and Older