News Summary

• Firmly in the well-worn heist genre to the point that one of its producers, Simon Kinberg, has made it with his company called Kinberg Genre Films, it will be no surprise Lift borrows liberally from just about every other movie of its type, old and new..
• The Cyrus team is also appealing led by a game Hart, who acquits himself nicely in new territory, and in addition to Corberó includes veteran Vincent D’Onofrio as the disguise guy, Billy Magnussen as the safecracker, Viveik Katra as the engineer and Yun Jee Kim as the electronics expert..
• But her boss, Dennis Huxley (Sam Worthington), insists that a get-out-of-jail card is worth the price to get them to retrieve $500 million in gold bars being used as terrorist payoffs by evil investment banker Lars Jorgensen (Jean Reno), who has big and dangerous plans..
• The crux of the job is that Cyrus and his team must pull off this heist 40,000 feet in the air in a plane where the gold is being safely transferred in an unpentreable vault..
• That is just the beginning of the ambitious job that gets more ludicrous, and actually fun as it goes along, even if the end, and the actual end, are all too predictable..
• Key to the plan is to have Camilla (Úrsula Corberó), Cyrus’ wheelwoman, pilot another private plane under this one and link to it electronically, enabling the transfer after a lot of other hijinks aboard..