Steven Soderbergh isn’t any stranger to hysterical and intelligent motion flicks—in any case, his Ocean’s Eleven was so profitable that it grew to become a full-blown franchise. And when phrase acquired out that he could be rising from a quick directorial hiatus to helm the barmy heist movie Logan Lucky, it felt thrilling. There was additionally the intriguing incontrovertible fact that its screenwriter, first-time scribe Rebecca Blunt, has been shrouded in thriller; some have claimed that Blunt can be a pseudonym for an as-yet unknown particular person, a risk that Soderbergh has coyly evaded discussing. Regardless, the excitement surrounding the movie, together with the star-studded forged, amplified the anticipation surrounding its launch.

The film has all the suitable stuff: stable plot construction, an amazing forged, and an attention-grabbing setting. Set within the bowels of North Carolina, Jimmy (Channing Tatum) and Clyde Logan (Adam Driver) are brothers who’re satisfied household curse is the rationale for his or her dangerous luck. When Jimmy will get fired from his development job, he decides to resort to determined measures with a view to get the cash he must assist his daughter. With the assistance of their car-enthusiast sister Mellie (Riley Keough) and an incarcerated grasp of explosives named Joe Bang (Daniel Craig) and his two bungling brothers (Jack Quaid and Brian Gleeson), Jimmy and Clyde put collectively an elaborate plan to rob the vaults beneath the Charlotte Motor Speedway in the course of the iconic Coca-Cola 600 race. Things go awry, in fact, however the group in the end handle to execute the heist…a lot to the chagrin of FBI agent Sarah Grayson (Hilary Swank), who exhibits up on the finish for seemingly no cause save to increase the already too-long movie’s period by an additional 20 minutes or so.

The film additionally will get slowed down by numerous high-profile superstar cameos that don’t have anything to do with the plot. Sebastian Stan briefly exhibits up as a health-nut NASCAR driver, alongside an nearly unrecognizable Seth MacFarlane. Katie Holmes pops out and in as Jimmy’s ex-wife Bobbie Jo, who’s now married to Roy from The Office (David Denman). These cameos provide temporary glimpses at an attention-grabbing forged of characters, however add little to the general story arc.

On a optimistic notice, the chemistry between Adam Driver and Channing Tatum is enjoyable to observe; they’re each masters of bodily comedy, and their back-and-forth makes them really feel like they’re a plausible pair of goofy, blundering brothers. It’s additionally hilarious (and a bit disarming) to see Daniel Craig utterly out of debonair, elegant 007 mode, as he portrays a tattooed, bleach-blonde hick with a passion for vending-machine hard-boiled eggs and makeshift explosives.

Despite a number of genuinely humorous moments and the occasional first rate piece of dialogue, the movie simply falls flat. The viewers spends two hours ready for one thing to occur, however nothing ever does. The inventiveness that held collectively the capers in Ocean’s Eleven isn’t current right here, making Logan Lucky really feel like an interminable, milquetoast train in world-building fairly than an precise story (regardless of the inarguable skills of a incredible however underutilized forged).