A worthy remake: Jake Gyllenhall elevates Amazon’s ‘Road House’ over the original

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A worthy remake: Jake Gyllenhall elevates Amazon’s ‘Road House’ over the original

Jake Gyllenhaal stars in Road House, a remake of the ludicrous Patrick Swayze cult film about a bar bouncer teaching others how to bounce—and punching people in the face a lot. This is better than the lousy original thanks to Gyllenhaal’s committed, perhaps a little bit psycho performance as a guy who is a little too reliant on violence to get through his days and pay his bills. Gyllenhaal gives us a Dalton who has a few screws loose—and it turn…