With an interesting cast - put Dwight Yoakim and Seth MacFarland as character actors in more stuff(!) - the movie sets expectations it never quite reaches. Running breathlessly from one set piece to another, it is a bit like reading an author who only writes in very long sentences with no 6 word-er to break up the rhythm. Definitely Cohen Brothers-esque in scene structure, it approaches its surrealist scenes with a little too much self-consciousness. You can hear Soderbergh standing behind the camera saying: "this is just CRA-Z, huh?" None of the cool casting quite pans out. Channing Tatum just isn't very interesting when wearing realistically ill-fitting clothing. Hilary Swank seems to take her part with as little seriousness as she used when filming "The Core". Why was Seth MacFarland's character British? This is an auto racing movie set in West Virgina, an Englishman would have been run out of the state the moment they got a whiff of his accent. Katie Holmes does her normal technically sounds but bloodless performance. The dialog takes a lot of shots on the funny goal but lands few of them in the net. In short, maybe skip.
Review of Logan Lucky
