While hearing their plan during a prison visit, Joe tells the brothers: “You Logans must be as simpleminded as people say.” But the film proves otherwise, slowly subverting our expectations about these Southerners as the heist heats up. Before their heist gets underway, the Logans need to break legendary safecracker and explosives expert Joe Bang ( Daniel Craig) out of prison. Affectionately nicknamed “Ocean’s 7-Eleven,” “Logan Lucky” opts for NASCAR as its setting instead of Vegas. “Logan Lucky” marks Steven Soderbergh’s triumphant return to filmmaking after he retired from the medium in 2013. It’s the last straw for Jimmy, and this chain of events leads to the inevitable: a heist of the Coca-Cola 600 race at Charlotte Motor Speedway. If that isn’t enough, he has the misfortune of meeting Seth MacFarlane’s Max Chilblain at his brother’s bar, a pompous billionaire who sells energy drinks, owns a NASCAR team and makes fun of Jimmy’s brother. Oh yeah, and Jimmy’s ex-wife, Bobbie Jo ( Katie Holmes), is moving away with their daughter, Sadie (Farrah Mackenzie), and Jimmy has no money to fight her decision. This injury gets him fired at the start of the film from the construction company fixing sinkholes at Charlotte Motor Speedway. But his brother Jimmy Logan ( Channing Tatum) doesn’t believe in the curse, despite ruining a promising football career after blowing his knee out.
Explaining the curse, Clyde recounts family mysteries, like when Aunt Maggie won the lotto but lost the ticket, Papaw’s diamond and Uncle Stickley’s electrocution. The heroes of “Logan Lucky,” the Logan family, are cursed - at least, that’s the story according to Clyde Logan ( Adam Driver), a bartender and veteran who lost a hand returning from the Iraq War.