Road House 2: Last Call

This film essentially begins with a nightclub owner in rural Louisiana by the name of "Nate Tanner" (Will Patton) having some difficulties with a drug lord named "Wild Bill" (Jake Busey) who is determined to buy him out. Eventually, things turn violent and Nate is hospitalized in the Intensive Care Unit of the local hospital. Since there is nobody else in the family to run the nightclub, Nate's nephew "Shane Tanner" (Johnathon Schaech) takes time off from his duties as a DEA agent in New York to fill in for him. Needless to say, he is not intimidated when Wild Bill comes around demanding that he sell the nightclub to him and that's when things soon get out-of-control. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this was a film that was not only highly predictable but also contained several ridiculous fight scenes involving certain characters who had sustained serious injuries days-if not minutes-beforehand. I also didn't quite care for the over-acting on the part of Jake Busey. Admittedly, I liked the Louisiana Bayou scenery and having two attractive actresses like Ellen Hollman (as Shane's girlfriend "Beau") and Marisa Quintanilla ("Nadja") certainly didn't hurt in that regard either. In any case, although this isn't a terrible movie by any means, the picture had too much of a cut-and-paste feel to it and for that reason I have rated it accordingly. Slightly below average.