Logan Lucky. Fun, y’all.
Aren’t we all ready for a movie for grown-ups that’s, you know, fun?
And one featuring good ol’ boys and girls in the south who aren’t ‘alt-right’ racists or stereotypical rednecks or any of that crap we’ve been seeing on the news lately?
Well, y’all get ready, ‘cause you’re absolutely gonna enjoy Logan Lucky, the heist comedy from the master of the genre, Steven Soderbergh (Oceans 11, etc.) and starring Magic Mike himself, Channing Tatum, coddled by an all-star cast that delivers.
The gist of this entertaining movie orbits around the Logan brothers, Jimmy (Tatum) and Clyde (Adam Driver), and their sister Mellie (Riley Keough), West Virginia siblings who are convinced their family is cursed, what with its lack of good fortune and all.
So they conjure up a plot to change the family’s course from, basically, a trailer park life to at least what resembles big-time success in the hill country: they’re going to rob the big-purse Charlotte Motor Speedway during its Memorial Day weekend flagship race, the Coca-Cola 600.
As ambitious and ridiculous as that sounds, you’ll soon find yourself swept up in the mountaineer machinations of the Logans that include a safecracking prison inmate (Daniel Craig in a joyous off-the-wall performance) and a wide assortment of bumpkins you just know couldn’t pull it off.
The audience is drawn into the rhythm of Logan Lucky early on, and it’s fairly obvious from the start that the actors are having a ball in this ensemble Soderbergh has assembled. Let’s just say you’ll get bitten by this crazy bug before you know it.
The film is propelled by a Rebecca Blunt script that shows far more sympathy than stereotype as far as the characters are concerned, fusing flashes of surprising genius into the various elements of the story that you’ll catch yourself actually buying right up to the end.
Pretty much all of the faces aren’t just cameo-style window-dressing, like Katie Holmes as Jimmy’s ex, Bobbie Jo, or Hilary Swank as FBI Special Agent Sarah Grayson, or Dwight Yoakam as the wheedling Warden Burns.
Even the ‘real’ cameos by actual NASCAR drivers are functional: Carl Edwards and Kyle Busch play a couple of state troopers, Brad Keselowski and Joey Logano are security guards, Kyle Larson is a limo driver. You know, that kind of thing.
Suffice it to say that Logan Lucky will be one of the most entertaining rides on the big screen this year.
Rated PG-13, mostly for language, it’s suitable for adolescents on up.
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7 年Hopefully it will do well & boost our spirits with a smile