93% on Rotten Tomatoes
Chloe's thoughts: It's alright
Watch it if you: Want to watch a whimsical and bizarre heist scene;
Aren't expecting a laugh-out-loud sense of humour from this film;
Are a fan of any of the main cast
In West Virginia, Jimmy Logan recruits his brother, sister, and an incarcerated demolitions man for a wacky and colourful hillbilly heist.
If you've seen the trailers for this, you might expect this film to be a hilarious non stop comedy fest, but unfortunately I found it didn't live up to the hype. Even now, critics are saying it's amazing and hilariously witty. While I did find it funny and enjoyable, it wasn't hilarious or anything.
But before I get into anything that matters, I have to say that overweight Channing Tatum and Adam Driver are quite funny to look at.
I might be finally getting used to Adam Driver's face because he didn't look that weird here, but maybe because his facial hair is sort of covering his features, and because he's overweight it fills out the weird angular bony structures of his face.
But honestly, these two lead characters don't really matter in light of Daniel Craig's character. He is honestly hilarious in this and he steals every scene he's in. I've never seen him act like this sort of whacky, ridiculous, and bizarre character before, and it was really refreshing to see him.
There's also a really decent cast of cameos in this movie, I kept hearing people go, "Ahhh" or "Ooooh" whenever someone familiar popped up.
But as I said before, this film is funny, but not in the crazy laugh-out-loud sense of humour that I expected it to be from watching the trailers. It was more like the chuckle-here-and-there, or even the what-on-earth-is-happening type of humour.
However, there are a few stand out scenes that are just so ridiculously funny. For example, there is a whole sequence taking a dif at how slow George RR Martin is at releasing The Winds of Winter. Come on Georgie, there's a whole prison full of people waiting for you to release that book!
Apart from this though, some parts of the movie felt like they dragged on for quite a bit. It's only a 2 hour film but it felt a lot longer.
In the end, the plot was kind of hammed in but overall the movie was still quite fun. I don't think it's worth watching in cinemas because there was nothing really exceptional about anything. The cast was fine, the humour was fine, the directing was fine. Everything was fine but nothing was amazing. There are a few jokes here and there that make it quite funny, and there are some very memorable scenes, and overall it is quite enjoyable, but the plot in itself isn't amazing so it just stays as an alright film for me.
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