Jimmy Logan (Channing Tatum) enlists the help of his brother Clyde (Adam Driver) and sister Mellie (Riley Keough) to pull off a heist at a NASCAR event. Matters are confused by the Logan curse, the fact their safe cracker Joe Bang (Daniel Craig) is in prison and that he wants them to include his idiot brothers.

Steven Soderbergh retired from film making in 2013 to pursue other projects and frankly it’s great to see him reversing that decision, because he is a phenomenal and experimental talent. This film is quintessentially his work as it is both consummately put together and also not quite the perfect product.

Where this film works really well are with the two sets of siblings and the heist itself. The Logan’s feel like a closely knit group who look out for each other and feel like genuinely ‘good’ people. The Bangs on the other hand are a bunch of screw ups and only Joe seems to have anything going on between his ears. Daniel Craig is great as the extrovert safe cracker who is “in-car-ce-rat-ed”! And the heist is genius, lots of moving parts and characters involved with moments early on in the film paying off later. This after all is from the man who gave us Oceans Eleven, Twelve and Thirteen.

Where it doesn’t quite pay off are in an experimental piece of casting and perhaps too many characters not quite getting fleshed out. Seth MacFarlane is famed for his voice work but whilst funny, his believability as a British entrepreneur investing in NASCAR is a stretch. Where as Katherine Waterston and Hilary Swank show up much later in the film as a love interest and FBI agent respectively with roles that feel underwritten or cut for the sake of running time.

So, overall a smart and entertaining romp that is fractionally short of great. But much better than your average fare.