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‘Lift’ Review: Kevin Hart Ratchets Up His Action-Star Cred In Netflix Heist Film That Is Ludicrously Entertaining
After parodying his attempts to become an action movie star in the Quibi/Roku short film series Die Hart (later compiled into a Amazon Prime feature), Kevin Hart goes for the gold in the genre and …
The latest bloated Netflix star-driven action epic on the scale of Red Notice and The Gray Man, this one has our star as master art thief Cyrus Whitaker whom we meet with his team trying to pull off one of their signature thefts at a Venice Italy auction house involving an NFT (just to keep this as contemporary as they come), leading to a wild boat chase all over the colorful canals, but not ending well for the gang. But her boss, Dennis Huxley ( Sam Worthington) insists that a get out of jail card is worth the price to get them to retrieve $500 million in gold bars being used as terrorist payoffs by evil investment banker Lars Jorgensen ( Jean Reno) who has big and dangerous plans. The Cyrus team is also appealing led by a game Hart who acquits himself nicely in new territory, and in addition to Corbero includes veteran Vincent D’Onfrio as the disguise guy, Billy Magnussen as the safecracker, Viveik Katra as the engineer, and Yun Jee Kim as the electronics expert.
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