 It's so hard to even feign excitement at this point to get through an intro, but I'll try Netflix's back with another exclusive film that definitely is gonna be great I have no reason to doubt anything they put out on that platform. It's just stellar all around Kevin Hart's in this one. It's called lift a generic title fit for a king and it really is perfect because this movie is about as generic as you could possibly get across the board with actors Who put a little effort in a script that doesn't even bother to make sense and one viewer who miserably wasted his Sunday afternoon watching it Let's get into lift This is a bad movie just getting that out there right away, but I do want to give some Recommendations if you like heist films. I'm a big fan of the genre myself I would recommend inception if you want to see a heist of the mind I'd recommend the old-school Oceans 11 with George Clooney not so much Oceans 12 That movie's trash Oceans 13. I think kind of pulls things back But at that point I was already gone from the franchise Inside Man is a solid flick. I'm a huge fan of snatch with Brad Pitt directed by Guy Ritchie Great quirky comedy heist film and of course we got heat bank robbery heist classic heat is Phenomenal, but we're here today. We're talking about lift I'd rather watch Oceans 8 it is managing to get the job done Whereas lift only manages to get another exclusive offer Netflix so they can say hey look We got a funny man Kevin Hart not being funny in this movie He's supposed to be the straight man of the picture. That's different. We have Sam Worthington in this For a little bit Sam Worthington anybody show of hands who knows who that is He's only the lead star of two Avatar movies and yet no one really knows the guy. It's incredible Vincent D'Onofrio doing anything for you. He's in the movie for a little bit I'm not really sure what the point of his character is He seems to be kind of underutilized, but that kind of goes with all the cast see lift is one of those flicks where everybody's a Specialist at something you have a safe cracker. You got the getaway driver. You have The guy that puts on disguises occasionally. That's D'Onofrio's character But those people are all very one-dimensional kind of throw away extras This is really about Kevin Hart's character Cyrus and his girlfriend Abby. Well, they only had a five-day fling a Short weekend fling. I guess it wasn't a girlfriend It was just a five-day fling long ago and she happens to work for Interpol Which is gonna be at conflict with what he does which is steel shit That's right. He's a thief and he's one of the best in the business He and his team steal art across the globe and they pump up the value and then sell it back for a hefty sum And when this movie starts out with this is gonna be spoiler-free and not because I'm worried about spoiling the movie But I legitimately can't remember anything about it and I just finished watching the thing It is so nonsensical and all over the place I really couldn't make heads or tails of what was going on in the plot Which is a testament to a really solid script and the fact that I'm kind of an idiot But it's mostly the scripts fault here We get to know their skill set at their first little gig when the movie fires up It's at an auction they're selling off different arts the artists are actually there one of which is a prominent artist Who is releasing an NFT that you can like go inside of or something and look at for 30 seconds and they capture your image It was all kind of convoluted to be honest and seemed unnecessarily complicated He's there wearing a mask because he's artsy and eccentric and whatever and the bidding starts and it's all kind of a ruse This movie did come out like two months ago And even then I feel like it was dated by about a year or two on the NFT side of things is that even are those even a thing still? I don't hear anybody talk about them, but that might be a rich person situation I have no nothing about anyway It kind of sets the table for what's to come as we find out how Cyrus and his crew work how things are a little bit More complicated than stealing an NFT They want to do more with it get more bang for their buck sort of thing and so yeah You know, it's your traditional by the numbers sort of situation. You see the team in action They're then proposed with some other conflicts that they have to overcome They have one big final mission they have to do to get out in this case Cyrus's ex-girlfriend Abby's back in the picture and she says hey Interpol needs you guys to do this mission for us where you're gonna have to hijack ten tons of gold from a bad guy Who's transferring it via plane over to his estate? Cyrus sees this as an absolute win and kind of a must otherwise their whole crew is gonna go to jail Really no other option. Of course the team is gonna be like hey. No. No. We don't want to do this This is bullshit man. He's like hey We have no other choice and he's right because it's such a dumb thing to argue about they have no other choice I don't want to get into the weeds on the plot. I will just say from this point forward I didn't know what the hell was happening. They're on a bunch of really fake-looking planes The CG is out of control silly this let's talk about the visuals just for a second Now this is a problem. I've had for several years in the age of digital film God this movie looks fake as shit. It looks like a video game. I Looked back at Harrison Ford in Air Force one obviously a dated film and even that final scene Where Air Force one smashes into the ocean? It looks so bad. It looks bad then But the rest of the movie is just you know an action film on a plane. It's visceral It's real looking it's by the numbers sure But it at least has some stakes to it and it has some things have some realness Nothing feels real in this movie in the slightest even when they're on the plane The thing is so wide it felt like they're just on a soundstage in a single room And when they showed the outside of the plane, I thought I was playing Grand Theft Auto 5 I just or a plane simulator not a very good one It just looked terrible if I were to compare this to another movie in the same ilk I would say it's close to now you see me if you like now you see me This might be up your alley I think that movie is dumb as shit and it goes way off the rails in the second half But I can at least look at now you see me and say alright. I get why people would like this. It's combining magic It's combining action and suspense and the heist angle that it's got a little thing going for it Lift has nothing going for it It's just generic across the board and thinking Kevin Hart could be the straight man in this was just nonsense He's he's great as like a side character a supporting funny guy But putting him in a role that someone like George Clooney really is good at as like the oceans 11 guy The you know the real expert dude who's pulling up the cufflings and really getting his hands dirty. No That's not the role for Kevin Hart. I would talk about the other supporting actors But they just don't really have anything going on. There is the safecracker guy. That's supposed to be the wild card He's like the he's like the fun guy. Yeah, let's do it. Let's go on come on But that's about it. He's just a glorified cheerleader at the end of the day. There's no good one-liners There's no witty jokes or banter It's just like scene-to-scene Getting this film out the door so Netflix can stamp their logo on one more thing and again The final third of this movie is so completely shot out of the can and stupid I don't know what the hell's going on with these planes. They're they're on top of each other They're spinning and flipping around. There's digital messages on the bottoms of them It's just asinine and completely ridiculous what this movie is to me is like a lot of other movies released on Netflix these days an hour and 45-minute flick that you put on in the background while you're doing the dishes or while you're sitting on your phone You go to the bathroom and you might even forget that the movies on that's how completely generic it is I don't think that this is meant to be taken seriously as a real movie like a lot of the films that come out by this Studio nowadays. I think it's just product for their platform and because a lot of general audiences now don't watch films like they used to It's almost unfair for me to even review this from the standpoint of a guy that just likes watching films because I'm sitting there like Tossing and turning and going oh my god. This movie is not good. Why am I wasting my fucking time watching it even? It's just it's kind of unfair to myself and so when I think about who is watching Lyft Why is it recommended on Netflix and says there's 3.8 million people watching it this week? I have to imagine it's the grandma who just says oh, I like Kevin Hart Let's put this on while I do my puzzle and it's just in the background and that wasn't bad I couldn't tell you anything about the movie But there it is or the mom who's got four kids running it out of the door So she just puts it on in the background while she is putting groceries away and dealing with Tommy's scraped knee or some stupid Crap or the dad who works from home on his computer and he's like yeah, let's just throw this on looks like a fun time And he's not really watching it's just there. This is the kind of movie for them It's not the kind of movie for probably you or I who's actually interested in sitting down and watching a story and watching actors Interact with each other and watching some high octane action and some fun mystery and intrigue. No, it's just by the books crap Oh, there's little reveals thrown out and even if you think about it for half a second They don't make sense and no oceans 11 and some of those other movies you can break them down and tear them apart too The difference is they feel like real movies with real characters and Interactions and quippy lines of dialogue and fun scenarios. This is like the the Walmart version of that It's not real. It's not serious And so there that's where I stand with the lift Oh and I should end with if you like drinking games You could definitely do one for this movie take a shot every time someone says the word lift And you'll be dead drunk off your ass within 35 minutes of the film. All right, there you have it My thoughts on this movie. Let me know leave a comment below if you liked it or hated it or thought Yeah, Netflix. No, thanks. I'm out. 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