Rating: Four out of five stars
Originality can be overrated. Sometimes all we demand of escapism is a series of familiar set–ups, quirks and thrills, strung together at breakneck pace.
Lucky, a thriller about a con artist on the run from the FBI and the Mob, delivers exactly that. From the opening sequence, where our heroine Anya Taylor–Joy hurtles through a maze of parked lorries, scrambling over and under them as bullets fly, it’s non–stop breathless pursuit.
Every scene, almost every shot, looks like it has been pinched from a classic movie or TV show. Some I can place, such as
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