a rating of 39% based on 44 reviews and has an average rating of 5.12/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Whether Road House is simply bad or so bad it's good depends largely on the audience's fondness for Swayze – and tolerance for violently cheesy action." "Variety" was critical of "a flat romantic attachment" between Dalton and Clay, and wrote that its "vigilante justice, lawlessness and wanton violence feel ludicrous in a modern setting." Other reviews are critical of Swayze's role as Dalton.