Post by mikef6 on Feb 4, 2018 18:11:15 GMT
Logan Lucky / Steven Soderbergh (2017). Soderbergh’s retirement from directing feature films lasted about four years. This light caper film was his re-entry into the arena. Channing Tatum stars as Jimmy Logan, an out-of-work former local football star in West Virginia who plans a complicated heist of the underground vault at the Charlotte Motor Speedway in North Carolina during one of the year’s largest attended races. There is just so much potential in the cast and script for suspense, comedy, and sympathy for the team of robbers that is just never realized. For instance, Adam Driver, racking up an impressive resume of divers characters, does it again but, somehow, Clyde Logan and all his eccentricities don’t really matter. Driver could have played the character any old way and it wouldn’t have made a difference to the story. And (this is the most interesting one of all) Daniel Craig in a supporting role as, as he put it, an “in-car-cer-a-ted” good-ol’-southern-boy in prison who has to be broken out of jail to utilize his abilities with explosives and then broken back into jail before he is noticed missing. But the excitement isn’t there. The film just plods along. Bland. Also in the notable cast is Riley Keough, Katie Holmes, Hilary Swank, Seth MacFarlane, Dwight Yoakam, Sebastian Stan, Jack Quaid, Brian Gleeson, and Katherine Waterston.
I had finished "Logan Lucky" in the late afternoon and then sat down and wrote the above paragraph review. But, you know how sometimes you will wake up at night or early morning and remember something you forgot or you have the solution to some problem you were worrying about? Well, that happened to me about 5:30 in the a.m. next morning regarding my previous day’s viewing of “Logan Lucky.” The (rather clever) method they use to steal all the money from a impenetrable vault had been used before on “Mission: Impossible.” I looked it up. It was Season Six, Episode 21, first broadcast on February 19, 1972. Titled Casino, the mission was to get mobster Orin Kerr (special guest villain Jack Cassidy at his oily best) to turn state's evidence and testify against The Syndicate. The IM Force robs Kerr's casino in the manner borrowed by Logan Lucky. When Kerr can't pony up the cash, he has to turn himself in and agree to testify for his own safety.
Channing Tatum and Adam Driver in Logan Lucky
Daniel Craig in Logan Lucky
I had finished "Logan Lucky" in the late afternoon and then sat down and wrote the above paragraph review. But, you know how sometimes you will wake up at night or early morning and remember something you forgot or you have the solution to some problem you were worrying about? Well, that happened to me about 5:30 in the a.m. next morning regarding my previous day’s viewing of “Logan Lucky.” The (rather clever) method they use to steal all the money from a impenetrable vault had been used before on “Mission: Impossible.” I looked it up. It was Season Six, Episode 21, first broadcast on February 19, 1972. Titled Casino, the mission was to get mobster Orin Kerr (special guest villain Jack Cassidy at his oily best) to turn state's evidence and testify against The Syndicate. The IM Force robs Kerr's casino in the manner borrowed by Logan Lucky. When Kerr can't pony up the cash, he has to turn himself in and agree to testify for his own safety.
Channing Tatum and Adam Driver in Logan Lucky
Daniel Craig in Logan Lucky