Movie: Logan Lucky
Starring: Channing Tatum, Adam Driver
Writer: Rebecca Blunt
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Rated: PG-13
On September 18, I ventured out for my second MoviePass excursion. With this movie, even though it was another early bird special, I officially made back my initial $9.95 investment. This time I headed for Angelika Film Center and once again the MoviePass worked like a charm.
I mainly wanted to see Logan Lucky because I'd heard comparisons between this heist movie and director Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven (in fact, even in the movie, they refer to the caper as "Ocean's 7-11"). The comparisons are apt, but this version has way more camo.
Jimmy Logan, played by a bearded and burly Channing Tatum, is fired from his underground construction job beneath a NASCAR race course in Charlotte, North Carolina when someone from HR spots his limp and decides he's a liability. With not much else in the way of prospects, Jimmy heads home to West Virginia to enlist the help of his one-armed bartender brother Clyde and hairstylist sister Mellie (Riley Keough) and embark on a plan to rob NASCAR. They can't do it alone, of course; the Logan brothers turn to incarcerated explosives expert Joe Bang (played with pugnacious hillbilly charm by--surprise!--Daniel Craig) who insists on involving his two idiot brothers.
Clyde gamely goes along with Jimmy's intricate plan, even though he is convinced that the Logan family is cursed. Even someone who didn't believe in such things might question the wisdom of a plan that hinges on breaking Joe Bang out of prison and returning him on the same day without anyone noticing. Fortunately, the warden (Dwight Yoakam) is an idiot, so that helps.
Once I officially suspended my sense of disbelief, this movie was a hoot and a half. Jimmy's pageant-participant daughter Sadie (Farrah Mackenzie) is a scene stealer and the true motivation for everything he does. Jimmy is smarter than the world or his ex-wife (played with a sneer by Katie Holmes) give him credit for, but there are a lot of moving parts to his plan. It would be spoiling things to say whether he and his co-conspirators succeed, but it sure is a wild ride while it lasts.
Starring: Channing Tatum, Adam Driver
Writer: Rebecca Blunt
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Rated: PG-13
On September 18, I ventured out for my second MoviePass excursion. With this movie, even though it was another early bird special, I officially made back my initial $9.95 investment. This time I headed for Angelika Film Center and once again the MoviePass worked like a charm.
I mainly wanted to see Logan Lucky because I'd heard comparisons between this heist movie and director Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven (in fact, even in the movie, they refer to the caper as "Ocean's 7-11"). The comparisons are apt, but this version has way more camo.
Jimmy Logan, played by a bearded and burly Channing Tatum, is fired from his underground construction job beneath a NASCAR race course in Charlotte, North Carolina when someone from HR spots his limp and decides he's a liability. With not much else in the way of prospects, Jimmy heads home to West Virginia to enlist the help of his one-armed bartender brother Clyde and hairstylist sister Mellie (Riley Keough) and embark on a plan to rob NASCAR. They can't do it alone, of course; the Logan brothers turn to incarcerated explosives expert Joe Bang (played with pugnacious hillbilly charm by--surprise!--Daniel Craig) who insists on involving his two idiot brothers.
Clyde gamely goes along with Jimmy's intricate plan, even though he is convinced that the Logan family is cursed. Even someone who didn't believe in such things might question the wisdom of a plan that hinges on breaking Joe Bang out of prison and returning him on the same day without anyone noticing. Fortunately, the warden (Dwight Yoakam) is an idiot, so that helps.
Once I officially suspended my sense of disbelief, this movie was a hoot and a half. Jimmy's pageant-participant daughter Sadie (Farrah Mackenzie) is a scene stealer and the true motivation for everything he does. Jimmy is smarter than the world or his ex-wife (played with a sneer by Katie Holmes) give him credit for, but there are a lot of moving parts to his plan. It would be spoiling things to say whether he and his co-conspirators succeed, but it sure is a wild ride while it lasts.
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