While I am lazy (somewhat like a world champion in procrastination) my poor blog seems to be orphaned, again - again. I have however seen plenty of films since the beginning of this year, actually already more than 100. It is just the reflection part that is dramatically behind.
Today I watched Logan Lucky by Soderbergh. After some years of self-imposed retirement from the screen, he returned with this movie. Well, there is nothing daring, maybe not even original about it. On the other hand it is pure entertainment in this hillbilly Oceans 7/11 (as it is called in the film).
The Logan brothers are not particularly lucky. Jimmy Logan (Channing Tatum) gets sacked from his work, because he walks with a limp. Clyde Logan (Adam Driver - marvelous) lost one hand in Iraq ans now makes a living as one-handed bartender. While Jimmy devises a scheme to rob money from the NASCAR race, this plan has only one weakness. They need Joe Bang (I liked for once Daniel Craig - as bottle-blond bully), but he is (as he puts it) in-car-ce-rated. Jimmy invents a scheme to get him out of prison and back again. It is also a condition of Bang that his dumb-witted brothers Sam and Fish be a part of the plan.
The plan of the hillbillies meets a series of drawbacks and failures, but they manage to get out of every predicament. The end seems to confirm the New Age slogan: a defeat is turned into victory.
Soderbergh never overdoes anything.On the negative side this could be seen as "playing safe", but it doesn't really matter very much, as this is pure entertainment.
8/10
Today I watched Logan Lucky by Soderbergh. After some years of self-imposed retirement from the screen, he returned with this movie. Well, there is nothing daring, maybe not even original about it. On the other hand it is pure entertainment in this hillbilly Oceans 7/11 (as it is called in the film).
The Logan brothers are not particularly lucky. Jimmy Logan (Channing Tatum) gets sacked from his work, because he walks with a limp. Clyde Logan (Adam Driver - marvelous) lost one hand in Iraq ans now makes a living as one-handed bartender. While Jimmy devises a scheme to rob money from the NASCAR race, this plan has only one weakness. They need Joe Bang (I liked for once Daniel Craig - as bottle-blond bully), but he is (as he puts it) in-car-ce-rated. Jimmy invents a scheme to get him out of prison and back again. It is also a condition of Bang that his dumb-witted brothers Sam and Fish be a part of the plan.
The plan of the hillbillies meets a series of drawbacks and failures, but they manage to get out of every predicament. The end seems to confirm the New Age slogan: a defeat is turned into victory.
Soderbergh never overdoes anything.On the negative side this could be seen as "playing safe", but it doesn't really matter very much, as this is pure entertainment.
8/10
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