Road House 2: Last Call

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Road House 2: Last Call is set in in a small town in Lousiana where Nate Tanner (Will Patton) owns a bar named The Black Pelican which a violent drug dealer named Wild Bill (Jake Busey) wants as it's in the perfect location to smuggle drugs through the swamps undetected, however Nate doesn't want to sell & stands up against Wild Bill & his gang of dealers. To get Nate out of the way Wild Bill tries to kill him but only ends up wounding him & putting him in hospital, his DEA agent nephew Shane Tanner (Jonathon Schaech) hears about his uncle & decides to visit him. Shane quickly learns about Wild Bill & his drug dealing, Shane take temporary control of The Black Pelican & embarks on an all out war with the dealers to clean the town up... Directed by Scott Ziehl this is a sequel to the Patrick Swayze action thriller Road House (1989) which I incidentally saw less than a week ago so I can compare the two against each with some authority, I was never a big fan of the original Road House apart from some unintentionally funny moments & I actually think Road House 2 is a better film. The script has Patrick Swayze's character's from the original dead & gone after being murdered sometime between the two films & his son Shane (why is Shane's second name Tanner & not Dalton after his father?) fill his boots & gets to clean up a small town all by himself. There are numerous references to Dalton (the three rules for instance) in Road House 2 but otherwise there's nothing connecting the two films at all. The original delt with extortion while here it's drug dealers, the general plot is similar to the original with a lone man driving into town & getting himself deeper into trouble than he could have expected & eventually takes on all the bad guy's & saves the day. The pace is brisk, it never lets up, there's enough fights & action to keep one satisfied & there's also some funny moments as well with some priceless dialogue especially from Jake Busey as Wild Bill who is a hoot here. The plot is nothing that special, it tells a story I suppose but no-one will be surprised by anything that happens & there's a bit too much of an effort to tie things together & get a really happy ending. While no masterpiece I was actually surprised at how much I liked Road House 2, as a simple & straight forward action film you could do a lot, lot worse. I really liked the action scenes in Road House 2, thank god the makers didn't go for that horrible machine gun edited shaky camera crap where you can't see a damned thing. Nope, here in Road House 2 everything is clear, well shot, well edited & well choreographed & the fights here are some of the best I've seen in a direct to video flick, seriously there's no shaky camera shots or quick editing anywhere & for that I salute the makers of Road House 2. While not as gay as the original Road House there's still a lot of topless bodies on show here, luckily a lot of them this time around are female so the boy's & girls will both be happy. The character of Wild Bill is great, he sits in a jacuzzi talking drugs while he has a naked girl either side of him, he wears some of the silliest looking shirts ever & he's just a great villain. Originally to be filmed in New Orleans the location was moved after Hurricane Katrina hit although it was still shot in Louisiana. The acting isn't bad I suppose, it's not great but it's not bad. Jonathon Schaech isn't leading man material, Jake Busey looks like he's having a ball while Ellen Hollman is very cute as the token love interest. Road House 2: Last Call is a pretty fun violent low budget direct to video action thriller that I liked quite a lot, sure it's predictable & silly & is no classic but what it is it's pretty good.

This in-name-only sequel to the classic ROADHOUSE has a DEA agent (John Schaech) coming to the rescue of his uncle (Will Patton) when the uncle is badly beaten up by a local drug gang, headed by that Wooden Indian of an actor Jake Busey. The gang wants to take over the poor guy's bar for nefarious reasons. Patrick Swayze is sorely missed here. Schaech is an indifferent actor and not convincing as an ass-kicking lawman. The fights here are intermittent and not nearly as powerful or vicious as the fights in ROADHOUSE. The finale is equally weak. Some good-looking women keep things afloat for a bit. There is a terrific fight between a Daisy Duke-type who turns out to be handy with both fists and weapons, and a nasty-looking babe of Busey's who is handy with sharp implements. There's also a scantily dressed gal at the beginning who is a fellow agent of Schaech's, but unfortunately she never reappears in the film. Too bad. She does a brief lap dance for Schaech that had my full attention. If nothing else, ROADHOUSE 2 kicks off with a strip club scene that comes darned close to what a real strip club looks like, a rare circumstance in any movie. The rest is snooze time.

road house 2 is actually a fairly decent movie.it has none of the actors from the first one,but is almost as good.the fight scenes are very well choreographed,and the acting is good.some people have suggested jake busey as the main baddie, overacts at times.i believe this to be intentional and shows how much fun busey was having in character.he had the best lines in the movie.the storyline is nothing new.bad guy wants to use bar for base of operations for drug smuggling endeavours.bouncer attempts to keep him and his buddies out.(there is actually a bit more to this,but i won't give it away)i thought will patton did a good job in his role.there is of course lots of action, with many fight scenes.the characters are not overly developed,but they usually aren't in this type of movie.i was entertained by this movie,and would watch it again. 6.5stars out of ten

The original Road House was a classic cheesy 80s movie, which although it didn't have anywhere near award worthy writing or acting, was a very enjoyable and popular film, largely due to the presence of star Patrick Swayze and the great supporting cast, along with some excellent fight scenes and eye candy. 16 years later, and MGM / Sony attempts to re-create the magic which left us all quoting one liners and reciting the three rules of bouncing... with a movie which quotes all the original's best one liners and recites the three rules. Were this an amateur fan made film, it would be seen as a loving homage to one of the most popular of Swayze's movies. As a professionally made film, it falls flat on it's face right into the DVD Bargin Bin, with its continual reuse of lines and plot from the original movie becoming more of an annoying sign of lack of originality rather than cool references to the original. Having said that, with new lines such as "I'm gonna kill you just like I killed your father" no wonder the screenwriters decided to rehash much of the original script. I knew this was never going to be anything special, being a Straight to DVD Sequel, but I had at least hoped that there might be a couple of new ideas and fresh things included to live up to the Road House name, but what you get is simply just a 2006 remake of the same film, with a little narcotics added in. Were I the director, I'd have removed all references to the first film so as not to tarnish the original and it's characters. As it is, we got Patrick Swayze's character now supposed to be dead (killed off screen in a lame way by Jake Busey) and his brother and son now the main characters, who strangely enough have completely different surnames. My favourite part was that Dalton's 'son' drove the same car his father did, a genuinely cool homage, although it was later ruined by having the car meet its end EXACTLY the same way as its predecessor did. That's a good example of how this film goes too far in including sequences and ideas from the '89 movie. Also of course who can forget the legendary moment where Wild Bill promises to kill Shane "just like I killed your father" and then proceeds to attempt to dispatch him in a completely different manner. Amazing writing there. I see Schaech is listed as co-screenwriter. Stick to acting, or preferably, nothing. Overall though, this is an OK film if there's nothing else to watch and you want to turn your brain off for an hour and a half, or if you haven't seen the first Road House, but hardcore fans of Swayze's classic will be totally disappointed almost to the point of feeling insulting at how much of a rip off this movie is of the first. As someone once suggested as an alternative subtitle for this film, "Even Jeff Healy is glad he won't be seeing this one!" Stick to the original Road House and relive the good old Swayze days!

"Direct-to-video" is a phrase that never sounds promising to the consumer unless its a direct-to-video sequel to something that went direct-to-video in the first place. Despite this, studios have insisted on releasing numerous direct-to-video sequels over the years to cult hits. I don't think it even needs to be mentioned that these sequels rank among some of the worst titles of all time, including THE HITCHER II, STARSHIP TROOPERS 2, and CRUEL INTENTIONS 3. It's fitting that ROAD HOUSE 2 was helmed by Scott Ziehl as he was also the man in charge of ruining the Cruel Intentions series. Like his entry in the Cruel Intentions trilogy, Ziehl takes elements that made the first ROAD HOUSE a great guy flick, and rehashes them with no success whatsoever. This is no sequel, this is a remake all the way. Various lines from the original are repeated, plot points cut and pasted, and scenes are replicated almost shot-for-shot from the first one. The one thing that could not be duplicated were the amazing fight scenes, which made ROAD HOUSE what it was. Here, we get clumsily directed fight sequences that are either too short or too long and seemingly planned out and shot within an hour. Compare that with its predecessor's fight scenes that look like they took months and months to prepare. Ziehl is capable of directing action as he did well with the 2001 remake of EARTH VS. THE SPIDER, but none of the talent shown there comes through in this mess. It's not completely his fault, as the screenplay is very, very poorly written and clunky. I don't care if something goes direct-to-video, a good script is still required. Someone should keep that mind while continuously churning these low-budget, direct-to-DVD movies out. Skip it entirely. 1/10

Let me start by saying you know a film is poorly run when extras make the cover. With that said, anyone who says this is the worst film ever is being dramatic, and anyone who says that the film is great is completely delusional. The film "is what it is." And what is that... A modest budget ($4 million, I estimate) studio sequel. The film isn't terrible, but for Road House fans it will be a disappointment. And that brings me to problem one, just as Dirty Dancing wouldn't been what it was without Swayze, Road House isn't the same without him. The lead lacks depth, character, and likability to carry the film. I feel that the lead was poorly cast and the producers should have bent over backwards to get Patrick to do it if they were gonna do a sequel. The other cast was uneven with outstanding actors like Will Patton along side day players who couldn't act there way out of a paper bag. Busey, who I have seen do great characters seemed like he just mailed it in. Ellen was played well, except for not being believable at all as a bayou raised chick. Sherri, the DEA agent at the first bar was hot and a good actress, yet her part was awkwardly small and undeveloped. The writer totally missed all opportunities to add depth and interest to the story and characters. Instead opting for a base one dimensional film. Which leads me to the biggest problem, the script... I got a bad feeling when the credits rolled and there were three script writers separated by an "and" and an "&." It looked very amateur. And that is what the writing was. I heard the original script was better and then a rewrite was done and the hard core sucking began. Some cheezy parts of the film to watch for are... During the first undercover meeting, the obvious drug deal under the table. "Hey lets meet at a crowded nudey bar, I will pull a block of coke out of my jacket and you pull cash out then we will slide them under the cocktail table" WAIT! "Make sure to look cool when you look left and right to make sure no one is looking!" Second, I love it when someone gets shot in the chest and then you see him sitting up happy as a lark 10 minutes later. There are some nasty editing cuts towards the end of the film especially during fight scenes and when the main character is chasing thru doors and runs into a patron. Which brings me to the realism of the DEA training, I won't both to get technical... But jumping thru doors isn't standard training... Nor do typical female agents, who bust their butts to make it in a male oriented field, act like weak characters... Boring! Thanks for the chauvinistic view Heir Director. There is other stuff I could teach a course at a school about it... The sped up fighting, the cheezy dialogue, the recycled story... etc... But aside from all that you just cannot like ex-Mr. Applegate, he totally lacks the humble zen coolness that made Mr. Patrick Swayze such a bad ass. He just strikes me as one of those 5 foot nothing actors who think they are a bad ass, but just like Van Damnit he runs into a real bad ass (Chuck Zito in Van Don't case) and he gives him a lesson about "badassdom." Therefore, that I feel is the major linchpin of the film, if you are a bad ass you are a bad ass, you don't have to try. Example: Swayze! If you are a pretty boy who tries to hard to prove you are a bad ass among other things... Then well... You are why your audience, the Average Joe... Will not rent this film, and if they do they will write reviews like this.

Man stop making sequels to great movies. The original was a great movie that was over the top with fights,sex,and one of the coolest characters that graced the screen in the 90's. The story is believable as if your been to bars in the outs of the south you would know. But here comes this piece of junk Roadhouse 2 Last Call. Lets just hope they are serious with the title and never make another Roadhouse ever again.It doesn't have the charm of the characters of the original nor is the story really believable. The Story is more of a Steven Segal type action that even though Roadhouse 2 is a B movie it still doesn't click as some B movie action still sales the movie no matter how cheesy it is. The only reason to rent not buy this movie is that we finally find out the one question is left from the original Roadhouse. Patrick Swayze's character Dalton, is Dalton his first name or last name? Well I'll save you the $4.00 rental fee. Dalton is his first name as in Dalton Tanner. NEVER MAKE ANOTHER ROADHOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!