IMDb plot summary: Follows a master thief and his Interpol Agent ex-girlfriend who team up to steal $500 million in gold bullion being transported on an A380 passenger flight.
Directed by F. Gary Gray. Starring Kevin Hart, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and Sam Worthington.
Lift is about a team of art thieves, lead by Kevin Hart, who are asked by Interpol to steal a shipment of gold that would be used to pay for terrorist actions. It's your straightforward team heist movie, complete with fun gadgets, a large casts, and some big adventurous twists. The tone of the movie is right on -- light, playful, friendly. The problem is that we don't actually get enough time with our ensemble cast or glimpses into their personality or roles in the story, so we don't feel the same camaraderie that we get in other ensemble heist films like Ocean's Eleven or Sneakers. It makes it feel a little bit like a knock-off version of one of those better stories that took a shortcut through character development to make way for cool set pieces. Granted, the character development bar for this genre isn't extremely high, so it doesn't destory the film by any means, just settles it into a place of mediocrity. A perfectly okay movie with nothing special to recommend it.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Lift < Captain Phillips
Lift > Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Lift < Stepmom
Lift > Cinderella (2015)
Lift > The Hot Rock
Lift > Bee Movie
Lift > Withnail & I
Lift > Nightmare Alley (2021)
Lift < Kicking and Screaming (1995)
Lift < Confessions of a Shopaholic
Lift < Fun and Fancy Free
Lift > Guarding Tess
Final spot: #2429 out of 3864, or 37%.
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