Caper flick that is criminally fun
Logan Lucky leaves audiences guessing how it's going to turn out, but this hillbilly heist is worth the price of admission.
IF anyone knows how to make a feel-good caper flick, it's Steven Soderbergh. Exhibit number one was Ocean's Eleven (2001) and its two sequels; now, the director is back from a filmmaking hiatus with Logan Lucky, a low-rent, high-fun version of Ocean's featuring a crew of redneck robbers channelling their inner Danny Oceans.
Soderbergh, a keen observer of the American working-class culture, championed blue-collar workers in the past with Erin Brockovich (1999) and Magic Mike (2012).
He does more of the same with an ensemble cast in his latest offering, about a laid-off worker determined to get his own back at the system that let him down.
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