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‘Lift’ Review: Netflix’s Derivative Kevin Hart Caper Never Takes Off
Even with F. Gary Gray at the helm, cliché-ridden heist movie 'Lift' is a pale imitation of better films.
That might have seemed plausible two years ago, when Netflix first acquired Daniel Kunka’s spec script, but F. Gary Gray ’s followup to “Men in Black: International” has the misfortune of arriving shortly after the vast majority of non-fungible tokens were deemed officially worthless. Even if the MacGuffin that sets this heist picture in motion were a tangible object, however, “Lift” would suffer from a serious lack of star power at its center: Kevin Hart, who has neither the acting chops nor gravitas to lead such a project — or anything other than broad comedies, it seems. That globetrotting ensemble includes master of disguise Denton (Vincent D’Onofrio), pilot Camila (Úrsula Corberó) and safecracker Magnus (Billy Magnussen), whose combined efforts will have to be enough to bring down financial terrorist Lars Jorgensen (Jean Reno, who isn’t given nearly enough to do).
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