‘Lift’ Review: Netflix’s Derivative Kevin Hart Caper Never Takes Off
variety.comMichael Nordine author A case study in the downside of timeliness, “Lift” is a caper predicated on a truly ludicrous concept: an NFT increasing in value.
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.
The funnyman is woefully miscast as Cyrus Whitaker, the head of a jet-setting crew of thieves whose suave knowhow makes him ideally suited to work with Interpol on, you guessed it, one last job in order to thwart a terrorist whose own misdeeds make Cyrus look like a boy scout.
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