obstacles appear in their path
are dispensed within seconds.
There’s never a sense that these
people are out of their depth,
and the Speedway is laughably
devoid of security. The movie
keeps telling us how the Logans
are jinxed, but never shows us
much evidence of this. As a com-
edy, it’s devoid of witty dialogue
and amusing scenarios, relying
on sub Coen Bros gurning from
its cast.
There’s a subplot about Jim-
my’s love for his young daughter
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Sadie (Farrah Mackenzie), but
we only see this in the opening
scene, which makes a final act
sequence set during a school
pageant, in which Sadie sings
her father’s favorite song (I’ll let
you guess which John Denver
standard it is), completely un-
earned and a cheap exploitation
of musical sentiment. I almost
forgot about the doctor played
by Katherine Waterston, who ap-
pears in one scene yet is posited
as a love interest for Jimmy. The
over-riding sense throughout Lo-
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