educallejero
Oh boy. Its this movie loved by the people who lives in rural areas (or smaller cities, or towns)?This movie is beyond overrated.The score is VOMITIVE. I hate every song they put in here. EVERY SINGLE ONE. I hate this music so much that I would love for it not to even exists. Then the absurdist humor. It just doesn't land.Then the accents. Either they were all badly done or they were expertly done compared to other movies, and that's why I hate them. But Oh my GOD I hate them.Then the plan. Look the Ocean's movies had plans as ridiculous and improbable as this one. So that's not the problem. But here the plan is unfolding as we see it. So when things go wrong we don't feel that bad, because we hardly know exactly what was planned and what was improvisation. Etc.Plus, the directing just like the frenesy of something that it supposed to be fun. It seems that in this case, the plan serves more for the situations to be "funny", than to have any kind of importance.In the end. This is a TERRIBLE movie by almost every front.
jkcarlo
This movie is neither bad nor god. It is a an attempt of making a funny and exciting heist movie that in fact is neither.The movie is not bad played by the actors*. Not even bad directed by Steven Söderberg - who generally has a talent of making movies with a realistic edge due to his way of shooting scenes with quiet sequences that speak for itself - Its just that in this case it is a funny mixture of Söderbergs stile that does not match with the genre. *However: Is Adam driver not a wrong cast to play Jimmys one armed brother?Maybe Söderberg should look towards Guy Ritchies brilliant movie Snatch (maybe he did?) - Now there is a mixture that comes out both funny, exciting and brilliant even.But you know - This movie tends to either impress or the opposite. So maybe you will call Logan Lucky differently than I did?And not somewhere in between!
Semisonic
When Cohen brothers make a film, it seems as if its plot is secondary - almost irrelevant. Because the true beauty of their unique style is the characters and the little moments they share on screen. Like a real life in a miniature: pointless and sometimes even absurd at each particular moment - but priceless when put together.Steven Soderbergh is no novice in the cinema business, with an established style of his own. But this time, it seems, he decided to approach his clearly beloved topic of high-profile heists (let's not forget that the Ocean's Eleven franchise is a child of Soderbergh's creation) and do it in a "characters first" way. So instead of the likes of George Clooney and Brad Pitt and their impeccable smiles we have a bunch of amateurish looking hillbillies from West Virginia, a divorced father who's been laid off lately, his one-armed (sorry, one-handed!) brother and a trio of other brothers who look as if Kid Rock is their style icon. Together they are gonna try to pull off a heist only an American would fully appreciate: stealing a ton of cash from the company organizing the NASCAR races.If the "characters first" approach was indeed the goal, then it worked out beautifully. Channing Tatum and Adam Driver are so natural as brothers that in some close-ups you start seeing an even physical resemblance between those two, no matter how far apart their real looks are. And Daniel Craig, looking like a German rave band frontman from the 90's and talking like a true backwoods dweller, is simply brilliant. I mean, if there was a cinematographic award for the most unlikely character transformation, then this "from Agent 007 to a hillbilly gangsta" switch would be the hands-down winner.But this is where all the "but"s start appearing. Because, after all those extraordinary gentlemen (and a few ladies to spruce up this team) finish introducing themselves and all their quirks are known, there's little Logan Lucky can offer to maintain the suspense and keep you involved. The heist itself is typical, its twists and turns may not be absolutely predictable but you definitely expect some second layer of events to reveal itself - and you get what you expected. The third act addition of Hilary Swank, a die-hard FBI investigator keen to put those responsible for the heist behind bars, does spice up things a little, but it's still not enough to make the film's final as intriguing as its opening."Ocean's 7-Eleven", a pun that the film makes of itself, is a nice way to describe Logan Lucky. A crime comedy without the high grades of pathos. But that pathos was actually essential to make Ocean's Eleven at least seem grand. Without it, the only thing left is some dudes trying to steal money in a quirky way. Yeah, the dudes were fun while it lasted, but the rest is the same old routine we've seen a hundred times. And no smoke screens or robotic hands could distract you enough to stop seeing that.
