Paul Andrews Road House 2: Last Call is set in in a small town in Lousiana where Nate Tanner (Will Patton) owns a bar named The Black Pelican which a violent drug dealer named Wild Bill (Jake Busey) wants as it's in the perfect location to smuggle drugs through the swamps undetected, however Nate doesn't want to sell & stands up against Wild Bill & his gang of dealers. To get Nate out of the way Wild Bill tries to kill him but only ends up wounding him & putting him in hospital, his DEA agent nephew Shane Tanner (Jonathon Schaech) hears about his uncle & decides to visit him. Shane quickly learns about Wild Bill & his drug dealing, Shane take temporary control of The Black Pelican & embarks on an all out war with the dealers to clean the town up...Directed by Scott Ziehl this is a sequel to the Patrick Swayze action thriller Road House (1989) which I incidentally saw less than a week ago so I can compare the two against each with some authority, I was never a big fan of the original Road House apart from some unintentionally funny moments & I actually think Road House 2 is a better film. The script has Patrick Swayze's character's from the original dead & gone after being murdered sometime between the two films & his son Shane (why is Shane's second name Tanner & not Dalton after his father?) fill his boots & gets to clean up a small town all by himself. There are numerous references to Dalton (the three rules for instance) in Road House 2 but otherwise there's nothing connecting the two films at all. The original delt with extortion while here it's drug dealers, the general plot is similar to the original with a lone man driving into town & getting himself deeper into trouble than he could have expected & eventually takes on all the bad guy's & saves the day. The pace is brisk, it never lets up, there's enough fights & action to keep one satisfied & there's also some funny moments as well with some priceless dialogue especially from Jake Busey as Wild Bill who is a hoot here. The plot is nothing that special, it tells a story I suppose but no-one will be surprised by anything that happens & there's a bit too much of an effort to tie things together & get a really happy ending. While no masterpiece I was actually surprised at how much I liked Road House 2, as a simple & straight forward action film you could do a lot, lot worse.I really liked the action scenes in Road House 2, thank god the makers didn't go for that horrible machine gun edited shaky camera crap where you can't see a damned thing. Nope, here in Road House 2 everything is clear, well shot, well edited & well choreographed & the fights here are some of the best I've seen in a direct to video flick, seriously there's no shaky camera shots or quick editing anywhere & for that I salute the makers of Road House 2. While not as gay as the original Road House there's still a lot of topless bodies on show here, luckily a lot of them this time around are female so the boy's & girls will both be happy. The character of Wild Bill is great, he sits in a jacuzzi talking drugs while he has a naked girl either side of him, he wears some of the silliest looking shirts ever & he's just a great villain.Originally to be filmed in New Orleans the location was moved after Hurricane Katrina hit although it was still shot in Louisiana. The acting isn't bad I suppose, it's not great but it's not bad. Jonathon Schaech isn't leading man material, Jake Busey looks like he's having a ball while Ellen Hollman is very cute as the token love interest.Road House 2: Last Call is a pretty fun violent low budget direct to video action thriller that I liked quite a lot, sure it's predictable & silly & is no classic but what it is it's pretty good.

xredgarnetx This in-name-only sequel to the classic ROADHOUSE has a DEA agent (John Schaech) coming to the rescue of his uncle (Will Patton) when the uncle is badly beaten up by a local drug gang, headed by that Wooden Indian of an actor Jake Busey. The gang wants to take over the poor guy's bar for nefarious reasons. Patrick Swayze is sorely missed here. Schaech is an indifferent actor and not convincing as an ass-kicking lawman. The fights here are intermittent and not nearly as powerful or vicious as the fights in ROADHOUSE. The finale is equally weak. Some good-looking women keep things afloat for a bit. There is a terrific fight between a Daisy Duke-type who turns out to be handy with both fists and weapons, and a nasty-looking babe of Busey's who is handy with sharp implements. There's also a scantily dressed gal at the beginning who is a fellow agent of Schaech's, but unfortunately she never reappears in the film. Too bad. She does a brief lap dance for Schaech that had my full attention. If nothing else, ROADHOUSE 2 kicks off with a strip club scene that comes darned close to what a real strip club looks like, a rare circumstance in any movie. The rest is snooze time.

skidrowmofo I saw the behind the scenes featurette on the special edition of Roadhouse. My first thought was no way a sequel could be made with out Swayze, no way, then Jonathon Schaech came into my bar( yea, I was bouncing when Roadhouse came out then and now, how sad) this past weekend and we got a chance to talk. He is a real cool guy. A regular joe. Just on that meeting I rented the movie. I tell ya' it's not bad. The fight scenes are outstanding, although not too realist (not smart to kick high), but close , they are very well done. Schaech is very fast, I doubt they used camera tricks, he is a natural. The acting is good; I wish Jake would have gone a little bit more over the top. The women are all hot, the fight scene between the two females at the end, nice, very nice. All and all it's not bad, a worthy sequel and come on, Will Patton is in it, that is just icing on the cake.

wgg-1 "Road House 2" is a worthy sequel to the Eighties cult fight fest, full of gorgeous Louisiana locales and the obligatory redneck sideshows. Dalton offspring Jonathon Schaech flies from New York to the bayou where he must protect the Black Pelican bar, a family establishment, from an encroaching Miami crime syndicate led by Richard Norton, starring as Victor Cross. The well tailored Cross is the kind of villain that audiences relish. He is suavely menacing and overly confident. Norton plays him to perfection, and the film benefits from a suited bad guy in contrast to all those bar brawlers. When Norton, a famed martial artist, and Schaech go at each other, the movie finally finds the edgy action style it needs for contemporary audiences. Unfortunately, Norton and co-star Will Patton do not get enough screen time in this chapter of the Dalton family saga. But, the film gets high marks for casting them and for their performances. If "Road House" repeats again, let's hope that Victor, as portrayed by Norton, gets a return reservation!