By Emilio Frenk.
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Channing Tatum, Adam Driver, Farrah Mackenzie, Riley Keough, Katie Holmes, Seth MacFarlane, Katherine Waterston, Jack Quaid, Brian Gleeson, Daniel Craig and Hilary Swank.
Rating: Excellent.
Academy Award Winner Steven Soderbergh is back after a 4 year hiatus in theatrical film and does it with “Logan Lucky” and I really enjoyed this movie.
The movie tells the story of Jimmy Logan (Channing Tatum) a blue collar worker who gets fired during the construction of the Charlotte Motor Speedway Race.
He goes with his brother Clyde (Adam Driver) a war veteran who looses his arm while he is in service.
He tells him he has an idea of stealing money from the Charlotte Motor Speedway and has an elaborated plan.
Clyde is intrigued about this idea and they try to convince Joe Bang (Daniel Craig) a convict who is serving time in prison that happens to be an explosive expert. After he ends up accepting, both brothers include their sister Mellie (Riley Keough) to be part of the heist.
Now the Logan´s with Joe Bang and his associates are going to perform of the most unexpected heists in American History.
“Lucky Logan” is a movie that from the beginning you are intrigued and this is because of the rich characters that are in this film.
This is thanks to the wonderful script that newcomer Rebecca Blunt wrote with an enormous amount of detail. I saw influences of heist movies like “Ocean´s Eleven", that happens to be directed by Soderbergh, some of "The Sting" and "Confidence" as well.
The way of how the conflicts were portrayed in every single character work at all levels and despite being a comedy you can see a little bit of drama in this film, because the characters are in the need of having money at all costs due to the situation that are in.
Steven Soderbergh´s directing again was top of the notch and it´s always a privilege watching a movie directed by him.
The printed his style as usual and got into the minds of the characters with this film.
The cinematography was really well made and the way how Soderbergh played with the mood and the tone of the film in certain scenes had a huge effect and did work.
The chemistry between Channing Tatum, Adam Driver, Riley Keough and Daniel Craig work at all levels and deliver incredible performances.
I wouldn´t be surprised if we see a possible Academy Award Nomination in next year´s awards for either Daniel Craig who did a remarkable as Joe Bang as well as Adam Driver who combined both his seriousness with a lot of physical comedy with his character of Clyde that reminded me some of the comedy that Buster Keaton use to do.
Rebecca Blunt´s debut as a screenwriter could not have started better. She wrote an impeccable movie and hopefully we can see more of her work in the future.
I still think that the movie could have had a shorter length but still I think the movie went pretty fast.
“Logan Lucky” is one of the year´s best films and I highly recommend for the directing of Steven Soderbergh, the performances he got from his cast and the screenplay.