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Film: Road House remake

Loved the take. Great setting. Gyllenhaal in top form. A number of terrific scenes, especially towards the beginning of the film. Generally great side casting all around. Billy Magnussen one of my favorite random actors. Connor McGregor was absolutely ridiculous and terrible, but in a way that makes sense for the film. I'm a fan of the way they redid this movie. Kept key elements from the first film, but really went on a riff. Terrible how Amazon treated the film. Really coming around to the view that the streamers are enemies to cinema. They are an inhuman machine meant to devour anything that gets in the way of churning algorithmic profit. Does anyone believe differently? Do the people who work at these places like what they're doing? I imagine all of them are just counting the paychecks until their balances reach a point where they can be set for life.  

Who is happy with this new arrangement of things?

I just checked rotten tomatoes. 52% audience. How is this possible? You can't tell me Deadpool vs. Wolverine is better than this film. Similar audiences. But Deadpool is 94%. Have people lost their minds?