Rating of
3/4
"Logan Lucky" by Yojimbo
Yojimbo - wrote on 02/03/19
The Logan family from West Virginia never had much in the way of luck, but when big brother Jimmy loses his job they decide to test it by staging a robbery of the Charlotte Motor Speedway track.
Taking a cue from the Kubrick classic The Killing, this is yet another heist movie from the ever-prolific Steven Soderbergh. Logan Lucky is essentially “Yokel’s Eleven” as in a change from the usual fast-talking smooth operators, the job is perpetrated by a motley assortment of hicks and dropouts which puts something of a fresh spin on the genre. The cast are all very likeable, including Adam Driver as a superstitious, one-armed combat veteran, Daniel Craig as a bleach-blonde safe cracker suffering from an inconvenient bout of incarceration and Riley Keough as the resident Daisy Duke. As with many of Soderbergh’s movies, it does feel a little lightweight and generic but it never fails to entertain and has some genuinely funny moments.
Not a world-changer, but Logan Lucky is an enjoyable – if slightly inconsequential – bit of fun that will appeal to fans of a good, old-fashioned heist.
