Road House

[Available March 21 on Amazon Prime Video.] When a former, guilt-ridden UFC middleweight fighter (Jake Gyllenhaal), who is attracted to a feisty doctor (Daniela Melchior), accepts a $5,000-per-week job as a bouncer from the owner (Jessica Williams) of a roadhouse in the Florida Keys who is being harassed and threatened by a money-hungry, greedy, villainous real estate broker businessman (Billy Magnussen) in Doug Liman's compelling, dark, action-packed, wit-punctuated, violent, star-dotted (Joaquim de Almeida, Lukas Gage, JD Pardo, Austin Post, and Beau Knapp), 114-minute remake of the 1989 film highlighted by terrific fight choreography, he finds himself fighting a cadre of thugs (Conor McGregor, et al.).
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