Jake Gyllenhaal takes over from Patrick Swayze
After the huge financial failure of the sci-fi film Walking in chaos (2021), Doug Liman returned to something more classic with Street house. The director looked for a cult film from the 80s (at least for some), worn at the time by Patrick Swayze, to offer a modernized remake. So forget the Swayze-style martial arts expert and nightclub bouncer James Dalton of the first film. This time here is Elwood Dalton, former MMA fighter who, after a fight that ends badly, takes part in clandestine brawls.
This man has a reputation and usually doesn’t even need to fight to win. For this reason Frankie, the owner of a roadhouse in the Florida Keys, hires him to ensure the safety of the premises. Because if local waiters can handle overly drunk customers, it’s impossible for them to do so face a gang who continues to threaten Frankie. Dalton accepts, and quickly makes it clear to these little crooks that they’d better look elsewhere. Except Brandt, who runs this gang, has other plans for the bar and intends to eliminate Dalton from the equation.
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Faithful to the original character, we find him a particularly zen and relaxed Dalton, even when you have to knock your opponents’ teeth out. The choice of Jake Gyllenhaal taking over from Patrick Swayze proves to be excellent. The actor knows how to be charming on screen, and he proves it by always flashing a big smile in front of his opponents. The actor also impresses physically, tackling the action scenes Conor McGregorbut more generally for the energy it infuses into the film.
Street house : An old-fashioned action movie
Even the real UFC champion has fun Street house, freewheeling, like the film as a whole. Because the movie plays the card old fashioned action moviewhile approaching a modern staging for a result fun and explosive. Don’t expect a very in-depth plot. To characters with complex psychology. Nor hope for greater depth of the reasons everyone has for hitting each other. The point is that they simply hit each other. In this, Doug Liman is completely honest. And it is the effectiveness of the realization of him that realizes it Street house a pure pleasure of its kind.
We still regret certain choices with visible digital effects. And we wouldn’t have been against seeing more of Daniela Melchior, who plays here love interests from Dalton. It is with her that the feature film is the calmest. Her presence allows Doug Liman to manage the pace of the film well. The director alternates pleasant action, which develops into a crescendo a powerful ending between Jake Gyllenhaal and Conor McGregor.
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Street house is to be discovered on Prime Video from March 21st.
Source: Cine Serie
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