Lift (2024) review

Or, Mission: Not-Quite-Likely.  Abby (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), an agent from Interpol, demands infamous thief Cyrus (Kevin Hart) and his team - who recently kidnapped masked artist N8 (Jacob Batalon) in exchange for his latest creation (a Damien Hirst-like mask with cameras attached) - swipe half a billion in gold bars owned by cretinous short-seller Jorgenson (Jean Reno) from a plane ... while it's still in mid-air.  Hart has built up quite a career for himself as a stand-up comedian, selling out huge arenas and filming very popular specials, but for whatever reason that's not good enough for him and he thinks he can pass as an action star, except no one is ever going to mistake him for Tom Cruise.  The "story" strains plausibility from the beginning, consistently denying any kind of logical explanation, but I suppose when you're cobbling together a shoddy knock-off such things don't matter ... especially since Netflix is signing the cheques.