LOGAN LUCKY    3.5***

 Steven Soderbergh’s (Director..  Oceans 11,12 & 13) describes this movie as an "anti-glam version of an Ocean's movie", Logan Lucky is a return to the style of film-making that made his Ocean's trilogy box office hits. The film moves at a neat pace, features a strong ensemble cast and is packed with enough twist and turns to keep things interesting throughout its two hour running time. 

 Recently let go from his construction job due to, "liability reasons with insurance," former football prodigy Jimmy Logan (Channing Tatum) decides to put in motion a robbery plan he's obviously been thinking about for some time. He recruits his siblings, hairdresser Mellie (Riley Keough) and one-handed bartender Clyde (Adam Driver), to aid him. Then they knock on the prison door of infamous local demolitions expert and safe cracker Joe Bang (DanielCraig) whose incarceration proves the first snag of many in the plan to rob the Charlotte Motor Speedway during the Coca Cola 600.

 As with all heist movies, much of the entertainment stems from the tension created when the plan, as described deviates ever so slightly risking exposure. What Logan Lucky doesn't just get right but gets near perfect is the way it plays with that convention. Minor problems come across as inspired character moments for which Jimmy, Clyde, Joe Bang and his brothers Sam and Fish Bang  show their goofy, simple, superstitious selves

. The movie had unique visuals in details like the painted cockroaches, jelly beans in the bomb, Joe Bangs favorite: two hard boiled eggs and salt, and strangely artistic stripy prison uniforms. And many steps of the Heist were  creative and a lot of fun and kept me smiling and engrossed throughout.

Rated PG-13 for language and some crude comments.

Clark