Some of Steven Soderbergh's films are big studio tentpoles; some of them are micro-budget doodles; some of them seem to alienate on purpose. But every single one of them is fascinating
was actually born out of defeat. Soderbergh had just parted ways with Sony over its adaptation of, and in the midst of his funk, the dejected director happened to catch MMA fighter Gina Carano on TV. “She had just lost her last [most recent] fight,” he, “so it seemed like a good time for the two of us to get into a room, me having been fired and her having been beaten.
The movie is more style than substance, but heavens, what style.In a career of left turns, Soderbergh’s interest in telling a fictionalized version of Channing Tatum’s pre-Hollywood life as a male stripper stands among his oddest digressions. And yet,is pure pleasure — albeit pleasure flecked with melancholy recognition that its aging main character can’t keep doing this forever. Tatum is Mike, the top draw at the Xquisite, a strip club run by the grandiose Dallas .
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