Lucky Day

Lucky Day is one of the movies ever made. A plot happens. People move. Guns exist. Motivation is implied. Logic clocks out early. Cinema continues **** it serious? Probably. Is it a joke? Also probably. Does it care? Absolutely not. Characters enter scenes like they were told something should occur, but not what. Violence is loud. Comedy is accidental. Style is intentional. Meaning is optional. The antagonist is present. That’s enough. Music plays. Colors appear. Editing **** no point does the film explain itself. At no point does it need to. It is confident. It is committed. It is there. You watch it. A movie has been watched. Truly one of the films of all time.

As the trailer proclaims, Roger Avary is best known for writing the “story” of Pulp Fiction. This time he’s writer/director and the Tarantino influence is glaringly obvious. The film starts when a safe cracker (Luke Bracey) gets out of jail and comes home to his wife and daughter. Meanwhile, a deranged assassin (Crispin Glover at his most extreme) leaves a path of quick kills seeking revenge. The dialogue never gets remotely close to Tarantino’s linguistic style, although some of the violent moments do have a gruesome comic element. Almost every scene goes on longer than needed with no reason (certainly not the writing). While there’s a cruel energy to the action, much of the plot and character situations are predictable.