Kevin Hart leads an eclectic crew in the action heist comedy movie Lift, directed by F. Gary Gray, a name synonymous with famous heist flicks.
And this time around, the filmmaker revokes the story in mid-air. Lift follows a robbery gang that plans to steal $100 million in gold while flying on a passenger flight.
The film’s release date is just two weeks away, and with it comes a final trailer from Netflix promoting the heist film and how this gang plans to steal an entire plane.
Lift | Official Final Trailer
‘Lift’ promises a high-stakes heist to steal $500 million in gold in mid-flight.
In Lift, Kevin Hart leads his gang on a daring heist. Netflix posted the latest teaser for Lift on YouTube with the caption, “The New Year lifts off January 12 with Kevin Hart and his team planning a heist such as no other – at 40,000 ft, exclusively on Netflix.”
Aside from the thrilling flying sequences, the trailer depicts Kevin Hart’s character, Cyrus Whitaker, taking his crew across Europe, including Italy, and training them to successfully ‘lift’ off the passenger plane.
Lift seems to follow a skilled thief lured by his ex-girlfriend, an FBI agent, to pull off an impossible heist on board an airplane flying from London to Zurich.
Netflix’s official summary reads:
In the new film from director F. Gary Gray ( Straight Outta Compton, Friday, Set It Off, The Italian Job, The Fate of the Furious), a group of skilled criminals led by Cyrus Whitaker (Kevin Hart) are selected to do what they do best: lift $500 million in gold from a passenger plane while in mid-flight at 40,000 feet!
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The Cast and Crew of the Movie.
The lift will be a star-studded action film led by Kevin Hart as the leader of Cyrus Whitaker, the heist crew. Lift promises to be up the actor/comedian’s alley, having starred in various action-comedies such as the Ride Along films, Central Intelligence, the Jumanji sequels, & The Man From Toronto.
The all-star cast also includes Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Loki) as Abby Gladwell, Billy Magnussen (Game Night) as Magnus, K-pop star Yun Jee Kim as Mi-Su, Vincent D’Onofrio (Daredevil) as Denton, Sam Worthington (Avatar: The Way of Water) as Dennis Huxley, Úrsula Corberó (Money Heist) as Camila, Jacob Batalon (Spider-Man: No Way Home) as N8, & Jean Reno (Da 5 Bloods) as Lars Jordensen. Viveik Kalra (Blinded by the Light), Burn Gorman (Halo), & Paul Anderson (Peaky Blinders) also appear in unknown roles.
The movie will now be released on January 12, 2024, thus becoming one of Netflix’s first New Year’s tentpoles.
