Review of Logan Lucky (2017) by Kaptenvideo — 06 Sep 2017

Contrary to announced plans to quit making movies, director Steven Soderbergh is still here and producing one intelligent entertainment after another.

This is his first attempt to cut studios out entirely and get by on own means.

The man’s had enough of „Ocean’s“ after completing the trilogy but he likes an idea of a heist story. „Logan Lucky“ is a working class version of this, which means less glamor and more people wearing blue jeans and eating at diners.

As expected form Soderbergh project, there’s a bunch of pretty cool faces doing their thang.

Among others, we have Channing Tatum, Adam Driver, Katie Holmes, Daniel Craig (yes, the 007 himself), Dwight Yoakam, Seth MacFarlane, Jack Quaid, and Hilary Swank.

Soderbergh and the team are still very good at putting movies together, everything in technical sense is competent. The result is too laid-back to become very gripping but it is certainly well oiled and tuned machine of a heist movie worth your time if you care about the subgenre.

And there's enough little humorous details to smirk about, if you happen to notice them. Just like Soderbergh prefers it.

I still think it could’ve been shorter than 119 minutes, especially because some important plot parts are explained quickly rather than shown anyway. Also, there’s no big amount of suspense or character development to justify this kind of duration.

But maybe it’s just me, dreaming of a perfect world where so many movies don’t have to last two hours, so I have more time for other stuff too!

PS The ony screenwriting credit goes to Rebecca Blunt who is suspected to be a pseudonym. Would be nice to know who’s behind it. Maybe it’s like Roderick Jaynes for Coen movies. It wouldn’t be the only nod to Coens in „Logan Lucky“.