Logan Lucky

An indie take on Ocean’s Eleven. It has spark, the unobtrusive elegance of the central gang with the exuberance of rednecks instead of neon, the countryside and hot babes (Riley Keough, Katie Holmes). It’s not quite a dud, but unlike the elegant version of a heist, it's less watchable and more niche for a specific target audience who will enjoy this down-to-earth setting full of mongs and lots of deliberately absurd scenes. The second half is a notch better than the first with the introductions. (03/02/2018)

A film about a bunch of assholes, completely different from the usual Hollywood films. The Logan brothers are retarded. One is all muscles and the other one is missing a hand, so he is truly crippled. For their break-in gang they also recruit Daniel Craig, who is at the time sitting in jail with one last month of desperate staring into the wall left. However, they come up with an idea how to take him along, even though he is in jail, which gives the whole thing an absurd dimension. The film is funny at times, especially when there is a rebellion in jail because they do not have the newest volume of The Game of Thrones source book series in their library. Otherwise, it is your usual average film. For a while the absurdity reminded me of the Coen brothers’ stories, the only difference being that their characters and dialogues are way funnier than in this film. (27/01/2018)

I've been quite fond of Soderbergh's films lately, but Logan Lucky didn't do it for me at all. It's shot really well, and there's an attempt to capture the Southern setting, which it did, but plot-wise I just didn't enjoy the film and I didn't relate to the individual characters. It was a bit boring for me in that regard. (03/12/2017)

Steven Soderberg has never convinced me with his direction, but I loved this redneck version of Ocean’s Eleven. A very entertaining and likeable film with an enjoyable cast (Channing Tatum, Daniel Craig and Hilary Swank are excellent) and quite possibly one of the most thoughtful and original heist films I've ever had the opportunity to see. There's the occasional funny scene, no shortage of tension, great chemistry between the characters and I really stared with rapt attention for the final 40 minutes. A very nice surprise, I hadn't even hoped for such satisfaction. Almost 5 stars. 85%. (16/11/2017)

For my taste, this Soderbergh movie is too long and drawn out, lacks pace and offers only very few really funny moments. Unfortunately, I was bored most of the time, not even the stellar cast could help. Maybe if Hilary Swank had been given more space, I would have spoken differently, because it was the scenes with her that caught my attention, especially the surprisingly well-pointed one at the very end. (55%) (11/10/2022)