Road House has all the trappings of a traditional Western: there's a local watering hole infested with wrong'uns, a quiet loner with his own way of laying down the law, and a megalomaniac villain with designs on the town. All that's missing is a high noon shootout.
It's something Doug Liman's reimagining of the '89 classic deliberately emphasizes, too – and, as star Jake Gyllenhaal tells us, the genre formed part of his preparation to take on the role of bouncer Dalton.
