Film Review – Lift (2024)

In 2003, director F. Gary Gray found career success with his remake of “The Italian Job.” The feature found an audience in theaters and exploded on DVD, giving the helmer industry viability when he needed it. After taking a professional hit with 2019’s “Men in Black: International,” Gray is back in the thieving game with “Lift,” which details the work of professional bandits aiming to steal a fortune in gold from an airplane in flight. Screenwriter Daniel Kunka (“12 Rounds”) doesn’t stray far from formula with the material, creating a target for the team and time to explore their way of doing business. There are no real surprises with “Lift,” which often departs from the realm of the real, but Gray keeps the endeavor on the move, sticking with the basics in heist cinema. He provides a flashy ride of breakthroughs and setbacks, and he keeps the effort to a 95-minute-long run time (before end credits), staying mercifully short to help digest semi-enjoyable nonsense. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com