Starring: Kevin Hart, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Vincent D’Onofrio, Úrsula Corberó, Billy Magnussen, Kim Yoon-ji, Viveik Kalra, Paul Anderson, Sam Worthington, Jacob Batalon, Jean Reno, Burn Gorman
OUR RATING: ★★☆☆☆
Story: Netflix heist comedy directed by F. Gary Gray and written by Daniel Kunka. Lift (2024) centers on an international heist crew, led by Cyrus Whitaker (Kevin Hart), as they race to lift $500 million in gold from a passenger plane at forty thousand feet to prevent a terrorist attack.
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Top Entertaining Quotes from Lift
Cyrus: [referring to the auction] How does it feel in the hall?
Mi-Sun: Rich.
Cyrus: My favorite feeling.
N8: Holy s**t. You guys kidnapped me.
Cyrus: Do you feel kidnapped?
N8: No.
Cyrus: Leonardo da Vinci sold The Mona Lisa for twenty-five thousand dollars and nobody gave a s**t about it for four hundred years until someone stole it. That smile is now worth eight hundred and sixty million because there’s a crazy story behind it. Just like the one of us borrowing you.
Abby: You’re facing twenty years to life.
Denton: Twenty years is life.
Abby: Your friends are looking at kidnapping, wire fraud, identity fraud, and transportation of stolen property. Did I leave anything out?
Denton: A little joy, maybe.
Abby: Everything okay?
Huxley: Well, if it were, we’d be out of a job.
Abby: You want Cyrus to nick the gold.
Huxley: Well, I wouldn’t have used the word “nick,” but…
Huxley: Our job is to do things we don’t like and make calls we don’t want, so the rest of the world can just carry on.
Cyrus: [to Abby] Can I get you a drink? What is it? Tequila during the day, vodka by night, right?
Abby: That was real cute, by the way, nicking the painting that was in the NFT.
Cyrus: Thought you’d appreciate the artistry involved.
Abby: You stole art, Cyrus. You didn’t make it.
Magnus: It’s a half a billion in gold.
Camila: That we don’t get to keep.
Magnus: Yeah, but we get to see it.
Cyrus: If we don’t do this, we go to jail. She has us on the Van Gogh.
Abby: Plus, and not that this should sway anyone, but it’s about saving lives.
Luke: Saving lives. Lovely.
Cyrus: Don’t lead with that.
Camila: I don’t appreciate the emotional blackmail, Cyrus.
Cyrus: This is not emotional blackmail. This is blackmail blackmail.
Camila: It’s impossible.
Magnus: It’s not impossible.
Cyrus: When you’re beat, what do you do?
Denton: Accept defeat gracefully?
Cyrus: AKA you go to jail or…
All: Look for the nearest exit.
Cyrus: The rules were already broken for someone like me.
Cyrus: I would never lift anything from anyone that doesn’t deserve to lose it. And if I do my job well, well, the thing I took, they’ll never know was missing.
Camila: We are taking the plane?
Magnus: Nice!
Mi-Sun: The whole plane?
Cyrus: It’s kind of hard to take half a plane.
Camila: We’re not hijacking a plane, Cyrus. It’s not the ’70s.
Cyrus: We’re not hijacking anything, Camila. Don’t ever use that word. We’re borrowing it.
Cyrus: To take a plane, you got to fake a plane.
Denton: [referring to the fake beard] Hey, too much? Or…
Cyrus: Are you going for like Gandalf the Grey? Or Moses?
Denton: No.
Cyrus: Then, yeah. That’s too much.
Cyrus: The game we’re in is not compatible with love.
Denton: That’s a little lonely, no?
Cyrus: Lonely? How about when we partied for New Year’s Eve, Taj Mahal?
Denton: I’m saying there’s respect, and there’s admiration, and friendships. But is there closeness? Is there intimacy?
Magnus: [offers a fist pump] If it was in a movie, it would go like, “Hey, let’s steal a plane!” And then you’d put your hand in, and people would be like, “Ah!”
Cyrus: Sometimes the best way to blend in is to stand out.
Abby: Oh, is calling me a trophy wife your idea of flattery?
Cyrus: No. Calling you my wife was.
Jorgensen: That was a clean shot through your leg so you can still type on your computer. Next shot, no more typing.
Cyrus: [to Abby after the heist is all done] You need a lift?
Cyrus: [to Abby] I’ve always trusted you. That was never in question. You know, in Paris, our first week, I didn’t fall in love with the cover. I fell in love with the way you looked at the art, the way that you cared about something that wasn’t even yours. Losing you during that week was the stupidest thing I’ve ever done in a lifetime full of stupid things. I don’t want to lose you again.
Abby: Does it always feel this good?
Cyrus: It’s never been this good.