Steven Soderbergh's Crime Caper "Logan Lucky" Stars Channing Tatum and Adam Driver-Takes the Long Road

"Logan Lucky" is a crime escapade that escalades along the fast track and the slow turns.  Steven Soderberg, (b Amer 1963) is an Acad Award winning dir whose film credits include "Oceans Eleven."  Soderberg knows how to mount a grandstand robbery and "Logan Lucky" makes the cool cons in "Oceans 11" look like  'Heehaw heroes' in comparison.  Still, "Logan Lucky" lingers too long in places and needed to pick up the paces.  The film needed editing to keep it on course.  Regardless, this is a joy ride especially with its the multi-talented cast.  Logan brothers Jimmy (Channing Tatum) & Clyde (Adam Driver) are lovable brothers who love one another & their sister, Mellie (Riley Keough) and Jimmy's daughter Saddie (an adorable Farrah McKenzie) with his ex-wife played by Katie Holmes.  Clyde is a slow talking, sure footed vet who lost a hand while serving.  Clyde doesn't bemoan the loss of his loan but bemoans the lousy hand his family's been dealt, 'The 'Logan Curse'.  Things get worse when Jimmy is let go from his mining job in West VA to minimize the company's insurance premiums.  Jimmy comes up with a plan to scam for big bucks but first needs to enlist a cast of shady characters including scene stealer Daniel Craig as inmate Joe Bang currently behind bars.  Nothing is insurmountable when Driver, Craig & Tatum combine their star power.  Makes you wonder why their characters are not more successful from the get go, but then Soderbergh would have no where to go with his madcap, charming & enormously entertaining movie.  Still, the film gets a little too ambitious.  It crashes into overdrive with a grab bag of nascar racing, "Little Miss Sunshine" and "The Shawshank Redemption".  The Acad Award nominated film "Hell or Highwater" (2016)  is a more compelling & convincing story about brothers (Ben Foster & Chris Pine) bonding   being outlaws.  But, "Logan Lucky" is meant as lighter fare and Adam Driver & Channing Tatum making a winning pair.