ppnelson

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.

this film is rubbish... campy is OK, but bad campy is a sin. the thing that makes this film really unforgivable is the attitude of it's star misty mundae who seems whiny and spoiled on her interview. you would think she had talent if you saw her interview. some have said that the nudity at least redeems the film, however the nudity is C rate also. the film just sucks and it totally misses the mark. the director seems like he doesn't have any artistic feel for even making a bad film, which i guess there is an art to everything. furthermore, the actresses come across very ignorant in there blind backing of the film with statements like "yeah i hate CG it looks so bad, stop animation is so much more real"... get off it you are giving indie films a bad rep and making us look dumb. i think they might not even know what CG is they just where told to say that. ps the stop animation is called antiquated for a reason.

Ok... I am on a mission... I am a lover of film, and this movie got a lot of hype. Through research I have found that all the hype is coming from the funder of the film, Pavan Grover. I just wasted $8 bucks on this terrible B rate movie. AND I MEAN TERRIBLE!!! This is just dumb... DON"T BELIEVE A WORD YOU HEAR ABOUT THIS FILM IT IS PROPAGANDA!!! First off the most talked about thing I have heard of is the "realistic" execution scene. Oh my gosh, talk about an over statement... "Realistic?" First off, anyone who claims it to be realistic I would ask them if they had ever seen an electricution? Nope, didn't think so... Basically it was pavan shaking and yelling "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" no that is not realism! Furthermore, it was said that he as a film maker didn't have the hood so it would be in your face... Whatever... bad idea... It looks fake and cheezy. Oh and about pavan grover being a film maker... Someone needs to look up the definition on that. Film makers make films. They don't fund movies so they can be the star. In an interview Grover proclaimed "all the odds were against me", yes if you consider he has not talent he is right. But unlike real film makers who don't have rich momies to buy them films, pavan comes off as an ego maniac and a joke. And everyone in my theatre was demanding their money back. The writer of this film, COINCIDENTALLY grover, (first rule of good filmmaking don't cast yourself before the script is even done) did NO RESEARCH!!! And the film comes off very amateurish. However, that is overshadowed by just how bad the acting is and how stupid the dialogue and plot are. BAD BAD BAD!!! DO NOT SEE THIS!!! Don't be fooled this not an "indie" in the true sense of the word this is a rich guy who is obsessed with himself and fame. Fame he will never find, yet he happens to be rich or have rich ties and he is using them to be in movies. I heard it called a Hollywood blockbuster by someone, and i laughed... It only got in 15 theatres, what a joke! I asked a theatre person how it got in and they said quote "i think the guy that made the movie is paying to have it shown." There is a reason why MGM, notorious for buying bad films, didn't put any money behind it. The best thing about the movie is that grover only has about 20 lines, lines that he easily makes look really cheezy.. "Who put the bom in the bom ti bom, Thank ya Thank ya very much" The script had so many holes... Oh I need a pain specialist after watching it... In fact i would go for some electricution right now to put me out of my misery... I think grover should be encouraged to stay with being a doctor... Leave films to artists. It was reported that hopper loved the script and pushed it, however the word i heard from hollywood was that nobody will pass up 300k for a weekend of shooting to have a really small part of a film. I really doubt hopper considers this his best work. Also in a recent interview grover refused to tell the budget... I wonder why... He said "it looks like a 10 million dollar picture, for a fraction of the cost" Well grover will pay a bigger cost, a cost of having a bad movie. I heard the budget was like 4 million... The quality looks like a 1 million dollar film, a wasted 1 million dollars... The film really has no genre.. Not horror, not action, not sci-fi and not thrillers, it is a spoof of a bad film. I hope grover has someone that loves him... who really really loves him... and can slap him around, till his ego falls out of his poofy hair. DON"T WASTE YOUR $8 bucks... BUT IF YOU MUST SEE WHAT ALL THE FALSE PROPAGANDA IS ABOUT DEMAND YOUR MONEY BACK AFTERWARDS!!!