Reviews for the movie "Logan's Luck." Steven Soderberg's Triumphant Return

Steven Soderberg’s new project in 2017, which marked the director’s return to the big movie, tells the story of the insane robbery played by C. Tatum, D. Craig and A. Driver.

Melodramatic comedy

The whole action of the tape looks as absurd as possible, as befits a comedy created by an intellectual filmmaker. Serious merit of "Good luck Logan" reviews of the film are called the harmonious combination of the weightless lightness of the "tale" of Ocean's friends with the impressive seriousness of the director’s social parables. Despite an IMDb rating of 7.10, the picture in America barely covered its modest budget, although it was highly praised by film critics. According to their authoritative opinion, Soderberg turned out to have a frisky, funny melodramatic comedy about bandits, although without any special plot plot.

Hollywood comeback

More than four years ago, Stephen Soderberg plunged into the abyss of despair the million-strong army of fans with a statement about leaving the feature film on television. During this period, he succeeded, working in the TV format, created several television pictures and the successful series “Knickerbocker Hospital”. To the triumph of true fans of cinema last year, he returned to duty, having shot the film “Logan’s Luck” (2017), according to the source, it was simply doomed to become a hit. The director himself compares the new project with Ocean's Eleven Friends, which is why filmmakers, analyzing comedy, also do not shy away from drawing parallels. By their comparison, the first picture was more romantic, dramatic and spectacular, and the acting ensemble was more charismatic and brighter than in "Logan's Fortune". Reviews of the film, however, recommend showing the tape as a guide for cinema universities. Installation delights and filigree selected camera angles are so easy that they can serve as a training tool and role model.

Intriguing hoax

The only secret of the film “Logan’s Luck” (2017) is the identity of the author of the script. Officially, the British writer Rebecca Blunt appears to be the screenwriter, but most of the reviewers are sure that such a person does not exist. There is an opinion that, in fact, history has come out of the pen of Soderberg himself, who is not the first to hide behind pseudonyms. It is not hard to believe in the rumors, since no one from the film crew saw the debutant playwright, everyone communicated with the screenwriter via e-mail.

At the same time, reviews of the film “Logan's Luck” call the script one of the best components of the picture. It is thought out, verified, sparkling with witty dialogues, competent connection of the plot and characters and decorated with local color. The second version of who is hiding under the name of Rebecca Blunt mentions the wife of a visionary TV presenter Jules Esner. In any case, the author’s experiment was 100% successful.

Plot

“Logan's Luck” introduces the viewer to the main characters - two brothers and a sister. The eldest of them is awkward Jimmy (Channing Tatum), who was once the best player in the school football team, who as a result did not have a sports career and missed his wife (in the bitchy role of Katie Holmes), he could lose his daughter. The middle brother, who dreamed of becoming a hero, Clyde (A. Driver), lost his hand in Iraq, now works as a bartender despite his disability. Their youngest sister (Riley Kio, who shone in Call Girls) saw herself as a fashionable stylist, but because of the vicissitudes of fate, she works as a manicurist in a local salon.

The family is haunted by a series of failures. At the moment when Jimmy loses his job, he decides to rob the stadium, which hosts NASCAR racing competitions. For help, he turns to his brother and sister, and they agree to realize his idea. The matter remains small - the three newly-made bandits must be freed from jail by an experienced specialist, the restless pyromaniac Joe Babah (unrecognized Daniel Craig). Heroes of Hilary Swank, Seth MacFarlane and one of the recent Avengers, Sebastian Stan, are involved in the scam.

Acting Ensemble

In "Luck of Logan" the actors are assembled magnificent. Channing Tatum has not ceased to please the gallery with diverse, memorable, vivid roles lately. The performer has experience working with the brothers Cohen, M. Vaughn, B. Miller and K. Tarantino, however, it was Soderberg who discovered him as a diverse performer who could equally realistically translate on the screen a comedic and dramatic image. Jimmy Channing managed to combine a lot: the hero is comical, funny, but down to earth and realistic.

Adam Driver is an actor of immeasurable talent who adorned with his presence the works of D. Nichols, M. Scorsese, T. Gilliam and D. Jarmusch, and played his brother with hard fate.

At the same time, if Driver and Tatum confirmed the status of talented and flexible performers with their exemplary filmography, then what could be expected from Craig was not clear. The viewer certainly hadn’t seen such Daniel yet. The repainted blue-eyed blonde Joe Babah in Craig's interpretation is a real frenzied beast. According to critics in the reviews of the movie "Logan's Luck", Soderberg really knows how to open up new facets of talent.

In addition to the stunning trinity mentioned above and the charming Kio, many more famous persons appear in the comedy - some in hilarious cameos, others as secondary characters. Each of the members of the ensemble of the tape brings something different to the story.