Fun and clever but nothing to write home about. Underutilized cast

I thought this was a pretty good movie, way better than I was expecting. Supposedly it tanked in the box office and got bad reviews all around so I went in with lowered expectations.The acting was pretty good from everyone. Nothing stood out to me as particularly bad. Daniel Craig has probably the best bit of acting, far from 007 for sure.The basic plot is "good" bad guys are introduced, plan is hatched, tense moments throughout execution of said plan - end results. Nothing we haven't seen before just done in a different setting.One thing I find irritating and doesn't have much to do with the movie but the poster I saw for this, the characters are all hanging out on a car with a pile of money indicating that whatever the movie was about they end up with the money OR it might have a twist too it, add to that the trailers are so long that it's hard not to see where the movie is heading before you even start watching. I see this with tons of other movies too and it bugs me.

A los que no nos gusta, pues no nos ha gustado, hablo en plural pero es a mí. Es una película muy especial. Tienes que entrar en ella o no te va a gustar y yo no entro en la película. Eso de que todo sea en tono comedia, no me va. No me puedo creer nada y entonces no me funciona.Los actores estarán estupendo, si entras, pero si no, es un conjunto de actuaciones excesivas.No me gusta la fotografía. Pero es que no entrando, no sé si la fotografía le va a la película, aunque a mí me parece demasiado clara y con mucha luz.No me gusta como dirige. No me gusta cómo pone la cámara. No entiendo por qué usa angular unas veces y otras no.Yo la he visto, porque hay que verlo todo pero no la recomiendo.Those of us who do not like it, we did not like it, I speak in the plural but it is me. It is a very special movie. You have to enter it or you will not like it and I do not go into the movie. That everything is comedy, I'm not going. I can not believe anything and then it does not work for me.The actors will be great, if you enter, but if not, it is a set of excessive performances.I do not like photography. But it is not entering, I do not know if the picture is going to the film, although to me it seems too clear and bright.I do not like how he directs. I do not like how he puts the camera. I do not understand why he uses angular sometimes and not others.I've seen it, because you have to see everything but I do not recommend it.

When Cohen brothers make a film, it seems as if its plot is secondary - almost irrelevant. Because the true beauty of their unique style is the characters and the little moments they share on screen. Like a real life in a miniature: pointless and sometimes even absurd at each particular moment - but priceless when put together.Steven Soderbergh is no novice in the cinema business, with an established style of his own. But this time, it seems, he decided to approach his clearly beloved topic of high-profile heists (let's not forget that the Ocean's Eleven franchise is a child of Soderbergh's creation) and do it in a "characters first" way. So instead of the likes of George Clooney and Brad Pitt and their impeccable smiles we have a bunch of amateurish looking hillbillies from West Virginia, a divorced father who's been laid off lately, his one-armed (sorry, one-handed!) brother and a trio of other brothers who look as if Kid Rock is their style icon. Together they are gonna try to pull off a heist only an American would fully appreciate: stealing a ton of cash from the company organizing the NASCAR races.If the "characters first" approach was indeed the goal, then it worked out beautifully. Channing Tatum and Adam Driver are so natural as brothers that in some close-ups you start seeing an even physical resemblance between those two, no matter how far apart their real looks are. And Daniel Craig, looking like a German rave band frontman from the 90's and talking like a true backwoods dweller, is simply brilliant. I mean, if there was a cinematographic award for the most unlikely character transformation, then this "from Agent 007 to a hillbilly gangsta" switch would be the hands-down winner.But this is where all the "but"s start appearing. Because, after all those extraordinary gentlemen (and a few ladies to spruce up this team) finish introducing themselves and all their quirks are known, there's little Logan Lucky can offer to maintain the suspense and keep you involved. The heist itself is typical, its twists and turns may not be absolutely predictable but you definitely expect some second layer of events to reveal itself - and you get what you expected. The third act addition of Hilary Swank, a die-hard FBI investigator keen to put those responsible for the heist behind bars, does spice up things a little, but it's still not enough to make the film's final as intriguing as its opening."Ocean's 7-Eleven", a pun that the film makes of itself, is a nice way to describe Logan Lucky. A crime comedy without the high grades of pathos. But that pathos was actually essential to make Ocean's Eleven at least seem grand. Without it, the only thing left is some dudes trying to steal money in a quirky way. Yeah, the dudes were fun while it lasted, but the rest is the same old routine we've seen a hundred times. And no smoke screens or robotic hands could distract you enough to stop seeing that.