Logan Lucky’ Bombs by Using Only Salt Substitute, Bleach Pens and Gummy Bears

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Daniel Craig (whose day job is James Bond) is obviously enjoying Potholes and plot holes himself as Joe Bangs, the twang- ing autodidact explosives expert. Incarcerated in a Monroe, W.V., abound in good-humored correctional facility, the terrifying- RE B E C CA yet-earnest Bangs is a genius jail- L. FORD house chemist who can create crime flick ‘Logan Lucky’ bombs by using only salt substitute, bleach pens and gummy bears. Rebecca L. Ford is counsel at Scharf In order for the plan to succeed, Banks Marmor LLC, and concentrates her practice on complex litigation, compliance, Bangs must escape and return to By same director as ‘O c e a n ’s’franchise, a board governance and specialized the prison without detection by employment issues. She is the former the prison authorities. surprise-free appeal to red state interests executive vice president for litigation and Dwight Yoakum, minus his intellectual property at MGM. She can be trademark Stetson, reveals his reached at [email protected]. wispy pate as Burns, the mean- he predictable and to be near her vile new husband’s spirited, self-absorbed Monroe pleasantly forgettable car dealership. Sadie, a pageant First onboard is his brother warden who knows something is hillbilly-heist caper princess competing for the Little Clyde (Adam Driver), an Iraq awry but can’t put is finger on it. “Logan Lucky”is essen- Miss Pretty West Virginia title, is War vet who lost his lower arm “Logan Lucky”relies heavily on tially “O ce a n’s Eleven” her father’s heart and, with her in combat. In Jimmy’s shadow laugh-track-worthy redneck comic Trepurposed to appeal to red state googly, wide, ocean-blue eyes, is since childhood, Clyde tends bar stereotypes of class resentment a u d i e n c e s . played by MacKenzie as a pint- at a dive called the Duck Tape, and gullibility to explain why any- King of the remade Rat Pack sized Goldie Hawn. and his prosthetic arm becomes one, family included, would join franchise, director Steven Soder- First his job, now his daughter, a gag tertiary character in the J i m m y ’s cockamamie venture. bergh, also helmed “O ce a n’s Jimmy seems to be losing every- m o v i e . And it demands the audience’s af- E l e v e n , ” “O ce a n’s Twelve,”and t h i n g. Their sister, Millie (Riley Keogh, firmative refusal to acknowledge “O ce a n’s Thirteen.”He will release But he has a plan. daughter of Lisa Marie Presley its plot holes. “O ce a n’s Eight”next June featur- The money from NASCAR con- and granddaughter of Elvis), is a Neither the story nor the char- ing a female cast. cessions travels through pneumat- hot-chick tomboy. As a cosmetol- acters deliver any surprises, ex- No wonder “Logan Lucky”has ic tubes that run through the ogist, her ability to style hair is cept that in a movie chock full of been dubbed “O ce a n’s 7-Eleven.” sinkhole sites at Charlotte Motor rivaled only by her ability to hot- red-state references —N A S C A R , Jimmy Logan (Channing Speedway. With the Coca-Cola wire cars. beauty pageants for tykes, John Tatum) is a former high school D e n v e r ’s“Country Road,”L e A n n football hero from a family known Rimes, Mr. Yoakum, and Fox News for its bad luck. He works con- “Logan Lucky”relies heavily on —Soderbergh makes it work struction on a team that is re- without flying the confederate flag. pairing sinkholes under the laugh-track-worthy redneck comic stereotypes of Good-humored and agreeable, NASCAR track near Charlotte, “Logan Lucky”has no highfalutin’ N.C. Jimmy is abruptly laid off class resentment and gullibility ... aspirations. It’s the last summer when someone notices he has a movie in the waning days before limp, a preexisting condition that 600 race coming up, there will be At first the Logan siblings have the serious cinematic submissions creates a potential liability for the millions in the pipes. All he has to their doubts about the plan. The of the fall. c o m p a n y. do is intercept it. luck of the Logans must be taken With its familiar patchwork of Jobless, Jimmy must now ne- Danny Ocean-style, Jimmy sets into consideration. But they are derivative references and cultural gotiate with his ex-wife, Bobbie Jo about assembling a motley crew persuaded by Jimmy’s level of signifiers, the movie is both laugh- (Katie Holmes), who wants to of criminals, misfits and losers commitment and his efforts at or- able and comforting —as if Tyler move out of state with their with diverse expertise to help him ganization. After all, he has a to- Perry had directed “The Dukes of daughter Sadie (Farah MacKenzie) execute the heist. do list. H a z z a r d . ”