Road House, Doug Liman's new take on the beloved classic of the same name, shares a great deal of DNA with the original. The underlying template – a lone wanderer blows into town to clean up a rowdy bar, strikes up a relationship with a doctor, and goes up against a vicious enemy – remains the same, but there are some key changes from the original that mark the Prime Video version as different.
Patrick Swayze played 'cooler' (AKA bouncer) Dalton in the '89 original film, and, this time, Jake Gyllenhaal is stepping in to play the role. Gyllenhaal and Swayze, who were co-stars in Donnie Darko, portray two very different incarnations of Dalton – though, as Gyllenhaal tells us, there is still some overlap.
