Stop Watching Road House, Jake Gyllenhaal Was Way Better in This 95%-Rated Hit

Summary:

• Jake Gyllenhaal is getting a lot of attention yet again thanks to his brand new action movie Road House, but 10 years before that, the actor got to portray another resembling character.
• In the 2014 film Gyllenhaal plays a journalist who finds it hard to decide whether he has to choose morality or quite a profitable business.
• Gyllenhaal’s characters in Road House and the 2014’s movie have one common feature, yet the latter is definitely superior in terms of the actor’s dramatical performance.

Jake Gyllenhaal’s brand new movie Road House, which comes as a remake of the 1989’s original film, has been making headlines with the impressive streaming results that it shows despite a controversial 59% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Though it may be a very good example of an action movie, Road House still lacks some truly dramatical twists that Gyllenhaal is so used to — and his filmography does have one particular film that stands out this way.

Generally speaking, Jake Gyllenhaal has proven long time ago that he isn’t really a romantic drama type of guy (he did appear in a couple of such films though) — the actor isn’t new in the tough action movies and thrillers’ world with brilliant examples like Zodiac, Rendition, Nocturnal Animals or The Guilty.

Yet there’s one more of his projects that can be somehow compared to the brand new Road House — and all thanks to one particular idea that the characters coincide in.

Nightcrawler Is Your Go-To If Road House Doesn’t Deliver

In 2014, Gyllenhaal starred in Nightcrawler, a thriller the plot of which follows freelance journalist Louis Bloom who finds an idea of a lucrative business in recording violent events around Los Angeles at night and selling the tapes to local television companies during the day.

The fact that both characters are played by the same actor can be the reason why they indeed look alike, but it’s not that simple.

Both Nightcrawler’s Louis and Road House’s Dalton find themselves on the edge of their moral principles when they decide whether they should go against them or stay true to themselves.

This point is proved even more by the fact that both of them sometimes try to go against themselves to fit in the society and to seem a good person.

The main difference here is that Nightcrawler demanded from Gyllenhaal much more of dramatical impact than Road House — and probably the actor’s sophisticated acting skills are the reason why the movie eventually ended up with an impressive 95% of score on Rotten Tomatoes.

You can stream Nightcrawler on Starz.