It seems strange to promise that 2024 will be the year in which films should regain the prestige they had above series, especially since the strikes of writers and actors in 2023 delayed many productions, but we will see more films. One of the releases that opens the year is the unpretentious Lift, starring comedian Kevin Hart. It’s fun.

There are many genres and subgenres that American cinema knows how to do very well. One of them is where George Clooney created a career: con movies. A group of scammers come together to carry out an impossible robbery and we embark on a complete suspension of reality to follow the incredible twists and turns that generally lead us to travel the world on jets, yachts, and luxury hotels. It is, of course, the formula here. and if you think you’ve seen something like it before, it’s because you have.

Directed by F. Gary Gray, who wrote The Italian Job and The Fast and the Furious, the premise is the same as achieving the impossible. Here, international art thief Cyrus Whitaker (Kevin Hart) and his team of tech-savvy criminals are blackmailed into stealing $500 million in gold. If that wasn’t enough of a challenge, here’s the main thing: they have to do everything aboard a passenger jet.

What critics complain, and I join them, is that it doesn’t work as well here, even though it’s distracting. They don’t develop any of the scammers to the point where it’s possible to create a connection, so it’s just fun for fun’s sake. They allude to a past and a series of scams that seem more interesting than what we are seeing, which makes it clear that the project is just a pilot. Yes, there is potential to see them more often.

In this way, Lift has the feeling of being disposable, but it is also welcome. What I regret is that by casting Hart as an action star, we lost his comedic edge and it would be essential here. Nothing that the sequel won’t solve, yes, because I doubt there won’t be one!

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