Starring: Channing Tatum, Adam Driver, Daniel Craig, Seth MacFarlane, Riley Keough, Katie Holmes, Katherine Waterston, Dwight Yoakam, Sebastian Stan, Brian Gleeson, Jack Quaid, Hilary Swank
OUR RATING: ★★★☆☆
Story:
Comedy directed by Steven Soderbergh. Logan Lucky (2017) follows siblings Jimmy (Channing Tatum), Clyde Logan (Adam Driver), and Mellie (Riley Keough), a hardscrabble family from the hills of West Virginia. Trying to reverse a family curse, the siblings, with the help of Joe Bang (Daniel Craig), an incarcerated explosives expert, set out to execute an elaborate robbery during the legendary Coca-Cola 600 race at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
Best Quotes
Sadie Logan: Oh, I finally know what song I’m going to sing for talent.
Jimmy Logan: What song?
Sadie Logan: Umbrella by Rihanna.
Levi Chapman: When Rihanna sings Umbrella, she’s not really singing about a rain umbrella. She’s really singing about her v***na. It’s code.
Jimmy Logan: Who told you that?
Levi Chapman: Everybody.
Bobbie Jo Chapman: I have full custody.
Jimmy Logan: It’s not happening. I’m getting a lawyer.
Bobbie Jo Chapman: With what money?
Max Chilblain: [as he sees Clyde] I just thought of a great song title, The Kindness of a One-Armed Bartender.
Jimmy Logan: I take exception to people messing with my brother. That’s two tours in Iraq right there. He stepped forward when others were stepping back. So you need to show a little respect.
Max Chilblain: Thank you for your service. And cheers. So, brothers, eh? You know, it’s funny. With your bad leg, and his missing an arm, excuse me, hand, it’s like the two of you almost add up to one normal person.
Clyde Logan: [to Jimmy] Did you just say “cauliflower” to me?
Clyde Logan: Unless I’m mistaken, yesterday, as you were leaving the bar, you said
the word “cauliflower”.
Jimmy Logan: That’s right. I did.
Clyde Logan: The last time you said that word to me, I ended up getting sent down for six months.
Jimmy Logan: It was juvie.
Clyde Logan: [to Jimmy] I let you lead me into trouble with all your crazy “cauliflower” plans. My life of crime is over. But you did make breakfast this morning. Even burned the bacon like I like and you hate. I also saw you have some sort of robbery “to do” list. Now, I know this attempt to be organized is a big step for you. So go.
Jimmy Logan: We do good work.
Clyde Logan: But you were just fired.
Jimmy Logan: I was let go for liability reasons involving insurance.
Clyde Logan: A real bank vault?
Jimmy Logan: Yeah, it’s a tough one too. I looked it up on the Google.
Jimmy Logan: What you say there, Joe Bang? Ain’t seen you in a while. How goes it?
Joe Bang: Well, I’m sitting on this side of the table wearing a onesie. How do you think it’s going?
'I know everything there is to know about computers. Okay? All the Twitters, I know them.' - Fish Bang (Logan Lucky) Share on X
Joe Bang: I am in-car-cer-ra-ted.
Jimmy Logan: Yeah, we got a plan to get you out.
Joe Bang: As in, break me out?
Clyde Logan: Yep.
Joe Bang: In the middle of the night?
Jimmy Logan: No. Afternoon. It’s a day job.
Joe Bang: You’re going to get me out of here in broad daylight, do the job, and then get me back in here before anyone notices?
Jimmy Logan: Yep.
Joe Bang: You Logans must be as simple-minded as people say.
Clyde, Jimmy: People say that?
Jimmy Logan: Who?
Jimmy Logan: We need like a computer whiz. Like one of them Facebook boys.
Fish Bang: I know everything there is to know about computers. Okay?
Jimmy Logan: Do you?
Fish Bang: All the Twitters, I know them.
Joe Bang: I’m about to get naked back here. So no peeking.
Clyde Logan: Would you give me my arm, please?
Joe Bang: [as he takes it out of the bag] Is it this one?
Warden Burns: As warden, I can approve buying a copy of A Dance With Dragons for the prison library, to go up on the Game of Thrones shelf. Now, the only problem is that The Winds of Winter and A Dream of Spring have yet to be published, so those aren’t available. Well, I can’t do anything about what I can’t control.
Naaman: That is total bulls**t! George R. R. Martin was supposed to deliver The Winds of Winter to his publisher over two years ago.
Warden Burns: I know that was the original deadline. That’s what it says here. But I’m reading to you from the Wikipedia page. It also says that Martin had a grueling promotion schedule, or something, and it’s interfered with his writing schedule. He’s failed to complete The Winds of Winter.
Naaman: That don’t make no sense. Those two guys who transferred in from Federal last month knew about all the new stuff with the hot chick and her dragons.
Warden Burns: No. I’m telling you, I believe those two inmates had that information from watching the TV series. Again, I’m reading to you. The series has jumped ahead! It’s no longer following the books!
Darrell Waltrip: Mike, it’s an honor to be able to start this six hundred mile race here on Memorial Day. Boogity, boogity, boogity! Let’s go racing for those who made the ultimate sacrifice, boys.
'That's a plastic bag, bleach pens, fake salt, and gummy bears. That's our bomb?' - Jimmy Logan (Logan Lucky) Share on X
Joe Bang: Now, how many yards away is the vault?
Jimmy Logan: About twenty yards. I don’t know, maybe thirty.
Joe Bang: Is it twenty, or is it thirty? We are dealing with science here.
Jimmy Logan: I guess when I saw that gummy bears is our secret ingredient to our bo… Our explosive device, that I wasn’t thinking about science!
Joe Bang: Sugar, plus potassium chlorate, yields two gasses and a solid. Now, you throw in some heat, you get energy. Energy means light, explosion. Or, as I like to call it, the Joe Bang. What? You thought I was going to use a stick of dynamite or something?
Jimmy Logan: Well, yeah, I kind of did.
Clyde Logan: Yeah, me too.
Jimmy Logan: What? What happened?
Clyde Logan: [to Joe] You sucked my arm off!
Fish Bang: NASCAR is a beautiful thing. NASCAR’s like America.
Sam Bang: It’s like you’re making us hurt America. So moving up that date was a vagrant fliolation of our morality clause.
Reporter: [on TV] What do you think of the robbery?
Woman on the News #1: Well, I heard that they’re calling it “Ocean’s 7-Eleven”, because they found that truck with the money behind a convenience store.
Joe Bang: What do you make of all this Logan Curse stuff?
Mellie Logan: Well, that’s Clyde’s thing. I never really gave it that much thought. What about you? You think we’re destined to repeat the past?
Joe Bang: No. I’m all about the future.
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