Lift (2024)

Lift
Lift

Master F. Gary Gray has seemingly produced finer action films Set It Off, and The Italian Job, and should again in the foreseeable future. The list of movies or television shows for that matter, where Magician with a French accent impersonating a knowledgeable engineer is the twist the great concoction feel and overall adjusts with Lift’s plot of a couple of disparate conmen attempting to execute an outrageous robbery almost thoroughly seems endless. It does provide some enjoyment, as the task in question gets more and more interesting. However, the characters are so thin in Daniel Kunka’s screenplay that it isn’t easy to root for them or not, and the computer graphics are so artificial that you get the feeling throughout that you are inside a computer game.

Powered by high tech tools, this proven outfit now has to pull off a 500 million dollar grab and extract resources from an airliner in a commercial flight that is flying from London City to Zurich.

Both of those moments revolve around Cyrus, who is played by Kevin Hart and is first introduced at the beginning of the film while orchestrating the heist of a luxurious art auction in Venice. This movie is the type that applies a bizarre touch to its worldwide adventure by including scenes from various European countries throughout the film such as Venice, London, and Brussels, which appear to be homogeneous at times. Here, Hart breaks away from the fast talking and flabbergasted manner that he commonly exhibits to a nice welcome. On the other hand, however, Ling claims to be a rogue romantic lead which the movie doesn’t do much to him emulate it doesn’t allow him to do something of interest instead.

Cyrus is in some way linked with the Interpol agent tracking his reckless crew termed as Abby Gladwell, played by Gugu Mbatha Raw. They both share some sort of painful flirting interaction and not much feeling for each other. As per the orders of her boss who is played as Sam Worthington in the movie, who is allowed to be Australian for a change, Abby quite reluctantly and quite against her better judgment of authority persuades these characters to steal gold from these criminals who are shipping off to a terror organization run by Jean Reno who intends to create chaos then step in and make money post the anarchy. Don’t be alarmed if it does not make sense. The entire idea is simply to provide a rationale for why these people would get together to perform the more delicate tasks that are needed in the air.

There are members of the group who have specific roles. The roles include the pilot played by Camila (Ursula Corbero), the hacker played by Mi-Sun (Yun Jee Kim), the master of disguise Denton (Vincent D’Onofrio), and the list goes on That’s all. Hysterically two dimensional, they waste time huddled in a tacky furnished high rise condo or warehouses with uniform white lighting where the script’s supposed to be light heartedly witty yet sounds overdone. Of skull cracking safes, there is Billy Magnussen in the role of Magnus, who twitches with reckless abandon like a trace of Brad Pitt in Burn After Reading which is pretty cool in a goofy way. He appears to be in a different movie and it seems like the only one you’ll want to see.

However, it also appears that the faddish and zany touch of Lift was too funny and out of place to not do it more than once the sound of fast forward, and zoom cut much action, and later a montage. For too long, confronting a number of airplane fistfights has only one possible outcome tiredness. They become dull and monotonous, not unlike the film in general. But then again perhaps Lift’ should be viewed more as a ‘take your brain out of the situation and watch’ movie while on a plane in need of kill time.

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