Logan Lucky is another summer fill-in. I wouldn’t say it’s a bad one but I wouldn’t say it’s a good one either. It’s a comedy, which may be its saving grace, about a heist with a twist. Hollywood is making these fill-ins a little better than they use to so kudos to Steven Soderbergh for a half way descent movie to end the summer.
Jimmy Logan (Channing Tatum), once had a promising football career that was ruined by an injury. To top things off, he was just laid off from his job at the Charlotte Motor Speedway and while picking up his daughter, Farrah Logan (Sadie Mackenzie) for a beauty pageant, he learns that his x-wife, Bobbie Jo (Katie Holmes) and her new husband Moody Chapman (David Denman), a wealthy car dealership owner, intend to move out of state to Lynchburg, making it harder for him to visit.
Angry, down and out, Jimmy visits his brother Clyde, (Adam Driver) an Iraq War veteran who, on account of losing part of his left arm, wears a prosthetic hand, at the bar where he works. He convinces Clyde to team up with him to rob the Charlotte Speedway after revealing a plan that will include Joe Bang (Daniel Craig) a convicted safecracker, as well as Joe’s dimwitted brothers Sam Bang (Brian Gleeson), Fish Bang (Jack Quaid), as well as their own sister, Mellie Logan (Riley Keough). Jimmy’s plan includes a jail break, gummy bears, an electrical grid outage, a stolen sports car, home made explosives, the loss of Clyde’s prosthetic hand and much more. It all takes place during the Coca-Cola 600 race on Memorial Day weekend. FBI agent Sarah Grayson (Hilary Swank) is assigned to investigate the heist but is sidewined via an insurance settlement.
Logan Lucky has a somewhat crazy plot with a plan that is so out there, I doubt it would or could ever happen. Despite it’s craziness, it’s entertaining but unbelievable. It is amazing someone could write a plot with so many unworkable parts yet pull it all together. Logan Lucky is truly a summer fill-in. Channing Tatum also gained some noticeable weight. I recommend waiting for the DVD on this one.
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