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I feel like the reviews that are bad didn't go into watching this film with an open mind. This movie is over the top Swayze awesome. This was Road House with a flare of Point Break. McGregor just did the thing that made everyone want to watch his fights, and did it amazingly. If you go into this movie thinking "this will be like one the Jason Bourne movies" you will leave confused. If you go into it with a "remember how ridiculous and fun Road House was" you'll leave loving every second.

Quick note about CGI fighting, they filmed quite a few shots in what's called a four-take sequence. Which is why the punches look so real, but also kinda not. But that's not the point. The point is, it's fun, awesome, hilarious, action packed.....it's Road House.

People are looking at this movie in a weird way. It is an original love story, regarding two people, and the *most complications you can fit into a love story while holding it all together. It, has the least amount of tropes for this category of film, and draws you in emotionally on several different levels.

Here is where the reviews start to slant. It's what I've heard as a "gay-mance" movie. Meaning a romantic film involving lovers of the same sex (in case you don't know). But if Dan Levi was played by Rachel McCadams, this would be better than The Notebook; and I hope someone tells Dan Levi that. It's a great romance that should be recognized in film. It was great to watch with my wife and ask "what if...?" I would implore everyone else to do the same.

There has been a lot of speculation regarding whether this film is a "good film" or an actual good movie. I'm not an expert. But as a film, it looks like, feels like, and seems like you are watching an old classic. Even the radio hammy voices they speak in seem distracting. Listen. Bradley Cooper did some aesthetically that can't be repeated. But the drawback of having a film feel like it was made 70 years ago, is that you have a film that looks like it was made 70 years ago. But it ain't Brando. I respect the man. Great actor and filmmaker. Outside of the makeup this is unfulfilling. ....add more characters, okay...the problem is that everyone in the movie spoke as if they were old actors, but only familiar with radio format entertainment in terms of their voice. Everything is over enunciated. It's distracting.