Movie Review: Logan Lucky

 

Michael's Movie Grade: A

Often times the films that stand above the rest are the ones that take the most chances and are the most original. With Logan Lucky that is not quite the case. This movie stands above so many other movies coming out of Hollywood today, not because of being original but because it does what other mainstream Hollywood movies do even better.

This is a movie filled with pure energy and even more important pure fun. There is never a scene in this movie that is boring. Every scene is filled with excitement and humor. The characters are fantastic. Again they are not the most original characters but they are handled with real sincerity and therefore feel more real to us than other similar characters from other similar movies. It doesn't hurt that the whole cast does a fantastic job. The movie has very clever script that ingeniously mixes a crime drama with a comedy and it does this perfectly. The movie works perfectly as both and neither the crime drama nor the comedy ever get in the way of each other. They in fact complement each other and make the other work all the better. The humor in this film ranges from very subtle to very broad and both are very funny. I simply laughed out loud a lot while watching this movie. The story contains a lot of movie clichés but they are handled with so much sincerity that they are completely believable. Steven Soderberg's direction is of the highest caliber. It moves the film along at a brisk pace that helps fill the movie with so much fun, but it never moves too fast to ever feel rushed.

This is a definite must see movie and just a lot of fun.