**This is a spoiler-free review so feel free to read on!**
“Nice doing business with you…”
Lift premiered on January 12th 2024 on Netflix. The action heist film stars Kevin Hart, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Vincent D’Onofrio, Kim Yoon-ji, Billy Magnussen, and Sam Worthington. It runs for approximately an hour and forty-five minutes.
A master thief is offered a job from an FBI agent, who also happens to be his ex-girlfriend, as he tries to pull off an almost impossible heist on an airplane with his team.
Here is the trailer:
Lift is basically Ocean’s Eleven without the finesse, relying on its cast and flashy effects to hold your attention. Is it worthy of YOUR next watch? Let’s find out…
The Pros:

Fun cast.
There are plenty of recognizable faces in this one to pull you into a mediocre film. That being said, I did enjoy the cast and thought that Gugu Mbatha-Raw stood out the most. She breathed the most life into her character and carried a lot of the team through some otherwise boring interactions.
The rest of the characters fit neatly into tropes, but I thought the cast did a decent enough job with what they were given.
Some of the fight scenes were enjoyable and I thought that the pacing improved once we actually got onto the plane, but it took a while to get there.
The Cons:

Lazy and uninspiring…
This movie wasn’t terrible, but there really wasn’t anything that memorable or unique going on here. It borrowed a lot from films like The Fast and the Furious, Ocean’s Eleven, and even Netflix’s Red Notice (although I liked that film a lot more).
I normally enjoy Kevin Hart in films, but this was a rough one for me. He needed some of his trademark humor to lighten things up. Everything just felt way too serious. This film needed to find the fun and embrace some silliness to make this one more enjoyable.
Everything just felt phoned in and lifeless, which was beyond frustrating. The movie wasn’t that long, but I felt like I was watching it forever and by the time I got to the end, I had already forgotten about what had I just watched…
So am I in or out?

Unfortunately I’m out on this one…
Lift is a movie I’ve seen a million times before. There were some entertaining moments sprinkled in here and there, but I was expecting a lot more.
I hope you enjoyed the review and feel free to post your own thoughts and theories on Lift in the comments section below. Thanks so much for reading and happy viewing!
Best,
Amy Koto, TV Fanatic Girl
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