From the opening scene, in
which a goateed Channing
Tatum discusses the merits of
John Denver while working on
a car engine, it’s clear we’re not
in for a subtle depiction of life
in its West Virginia setting. Ta-
tum is Jimmy Logan, as close to
a protagonist as Logan Lucky
can boast of among its roster
of crudely drawn Southern ste-
reotypes. Limping like James
Garner in the final season of The
Rockford Files, Jimmy loses his
job at a coal mine, making his
struggles to pay alimony and
child support to his ex-wife (Ka-
tie Holmes) even more difficult.
Along with his hairdressing
sister Mellie (a wasted Riley Ke-
ough) and bartender brother
Clyde (a somnambulistic Adam
Driver), the latter a veteran with
a prosthetic arm, Jimmy con-
cocts a scheme to rob the vault
of the Charlotte Speedway track.
To pull it off he must enlist the
currently incarcerated Joe Bang
(Daniel Craig), an expert in bust-
ing open bank vaults.
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