On January 12, Netflix released a new movie starring Kevin Hart titled Lift. Let’s see if this heist movie holds up against the others in the genre.

Cyrus (Hart) leads an international group of thieves. There’s master-of-disguise Denton (Vincent D’Onofrio), pilot Camila (Úrsula Corberó), hacker Mi-Sun (Yunjee Kim), engineer Luke (Viveik Kalra), and crazy safecracker Magnus (Billy Magnussen). After successfully stealing a Vincent Van Gogh painting in London while kidnapping a mysterious artist named N8, the group gets tasked by Interpol to help capture a terrorist named Lars Jorgensen (Jean Reno). In exchange for their freedom, the group agrees to the deal.

I don’t think I have ever seen a more boring heist film. For most of the movie, I was wondering when the action was going to start. Even though the movie begins with a massive art heist, we don’t see anything interesting until around an hour and fifteen minutes into the 90 minute runtime. I wanted to like this movie so much but is was so utterly bland. How can they take someone like Kevin Hart and make him dull?? Who was OK with this?

Rating: D