Road House (2024)|Movie Reaction|This movie Kicks A$$ (Literally)|First Time Watching

#roadhouse #MovieNight #FirstTimeWatching Full Movie Plot : Troubled former UFC middleweight fighter Elwood Dalton makes a living scamming fighters on the underground circuit. He is approached by Frankie, the owner of an unruly roadhouse in the Florida Keys community of Glass Key, who offers him a job as head bouncer. Initially hesitant, Dalton takes up the offer after narrowly averting a suicide attempt with a freight train that destroys his car. He takes a coach bus to Frankie's establishment, simply called 'The Road House,' and befriends Charlie, a teenager who runs a bookstore with her father, Stephen. At the Road House, Dalton fends off a motorcycle gang working for local crime boss Ben Brandt and personally drives the injured thugs to the hospital, where he meets Ellie, a doctor who tends to his injuries. Staying in Frankie's disused houseboat, Dalton mentors the other bouncers and becomes popular with the locals. After an attempt on his life by gang leader Dell, Dalton finds him lying in wait at his houseboat. He throws Dell overboard but is unable to save him from being killed and eaten by a crocodile that ate the previous owner's pomeranian dog. Knox, a recently released from prison mafia enforcer and brazen nudist, is tasked by Brandt's incarcerated father to hunt down Dalton. After an unexpected date with Ellie, Dalton is threatened by Sheriff 'Big Dick' to leave town but Dalton refuses and is ordered out of Big Dick's patrol vehicle at gunpoint and assaulted by his uniformed goons but is rescued by Ellie, who is revealed to be the sheriff's daughter. She explains that her father is in league with Brandt, who has inherited his wealthy father's drug empire. Brandt meets Dalton at the Road House and taunts him about his past: in a UFC title fight against a friend, Dalton was overcome with rage and killed his opponent in the ring. Knox arrives with Brandt's men, and an all-out bar fight ensues, leaving Dalton badly beaten. Frankie admits that Brandt has been buying up property to build an expensive resort, but she is the lone holdout. Dalton decides to leave town but discovers that Charlie and Stephen are in the hospital after Brandt's men burned down their bookstore. Enraged, Dalton kills one of the thugs responsible and captures a sheriff's deputy making a large delivery of Brandt's illicit cash, framing the deputy for the murder and taking the money. The sheriff soon informs Dalton that Brandt has kidnapped Ellie and will exchange her for the money. Stealing Big Dick's motorboat to reach Brandt's catamaran yacht, Dalton finds him with Big Dick, revealing that the kidnapping was a ploy to lure Dalton aboard admonishing Dalton for his obliviousness to the cahootness of locals, but Brandt rebukes Big Dick that he is actually holding Ellie hostage with Big Dick scorning Brandt for this paternal protectiveness. Tempers flare as Knox approaches in his boat, but Dalton detonates the bomb laden Big Dick's boat and finds Ellie below deck, trying to smash a window with a goon attempting to shoot them, then the window gives in. Brandt recaptures Ellie in a motorboat while Dalton attempts to finish Dalton in a motorskiff. Dalton's person is flipped onto Brandt's boat and Dalton and Ellie jump off the driverless boat heading to the beach and Brandt is catapulted on top of the Road House. Climbing onto a causeway, Knox hijacks a pickup truck and crashes it into the Road House, brutally beats and stabs Dalton. Brandt arrives and orders Knox to kill Dalton with Knox fatally snapping Brandt's neck. Attempting to finish off Dalton with a shard of wood, instead Dalton gains the upper hand and repeatedly stabs Knox fatally. The sheriff arrives, agreeing to cover up for Dalton and orders him to leave. As Frankie and Stephen begin to rebuild, Charlie bids farewell to Dalton awaiting his coachbus out of town. Stephen discovers Dalton has left them the trunk of Big Dick's cash unable to thank him as the bus pulls away. In a mid-credits scene, Knox, revealed to have survived the fight, assaults hospital staff as he leaves wearing only a hospital gown.