Logan Lucky (2017)

Hoping to reverse a "curse" that's hung over his family for generations, a man (Channing Tatum) hatches a plan to rob a speedway during NASCAR's biggest race of the year. Directed by Steven Soderbergh (ERIN BROCKOVICH). Soderbergh returns to the heist genre but instead of an OCEAN'S ELEVEN, he gives us a red neck variation that could be dubbed OCEAN'S SEVEN ELEVEN! I found it modestly entertaining but I have little patience for movies with stupid people at the core of the narrative. Is this film so different than SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT, WHITE LIGHTNING or other "hicksploitation" movies of the 1970s? I don't want to be too hard on it because as I said I was entertained by it despite my distaste for the genre. There's a lot of talented people involved and I was most impressed by Daniel Craig, showing some comic flair, as a tatted safe cracker serving time in prison. The film has a higher dose of sentimentality than the usual Soderbergh film. With Adam Driver, Hilary Swank, Katie Holmes, Seth MacFarlane, Riley Keough, Dwight Yoakam, Sebastian Stan, Katherine Waterston and LeAnn Rimes.