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Netflix’s New Heist Movie Lift Wastes a Fun Cast
Kevin Hart, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and Vincent D’Onofrio are trying to steal Jean Reno’s gold. Somehow, we don’t really care.
Cyrus is surrounded by a likable cast of accomplices, including Denton (Vincent D’Onofrio), a somewhat hapless master of disguise a bit too in love with his abilities; Camila (Úrsula Corberó), a spunky getaway driver and pilot; Magnus (Billy Magnussen), an adrenaline-junkie safecracker; and Mi-Sun (Yun Jee Kim), a hacker. She wants to take him down, but after that opening art heist, she enlists his aid in trying to stop murderous tycoon Lars Jorgensen (Jean Reno) from transporting a ten-ton block of half a billion dollars in gold from his vault in London to his lair in Switzerland, where he plans to pay off a group of international hackers to set off a series of terror strikes around the world, from which he will then profit. Luckily, there are some nice character moments, as when Denton gently mocks Cyrus for the puppy-dog face he makes whenever he looks at Abby, or Camila’s sheer terror at what she’s gotten into mid-heist as she races a stealth-panel-covered jet beneath an enormous passenger airliner, or Magnus’s desperate attempt to flee a gun-toting baddie that ends with someone losing a few fingers.
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