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Lift (2024)
Attention! Calling All The Cliché.
A waste of time and talent, I hope Vincent D'Onofrio and Jean Reno used this as a way to guarantee a future project at Netflix that is good or got a huge paycheck for it, it's a cliché fest from beginning to end, at 15 minutes I was already done with it, but kept the film going as a background sound while playing on my phone just to make sure all my predictions of the end would be right. (They were!)
Spoilers ahead:
The end is so convenient that you actually feel bad for watching this
1- there was nothing against the villain until he decides to kill someone for no reason besides the writing team having to answer "he needs to go to jail, what should we do?"
2- His operation was legal, as mentioned a couple of times, his "private security" was there to prevent robbers and only acted against them, the number of times they should have shot at least on the leg both the female pilot and the "hostages" was mind boggling, as far as they know those were robbers, there is no reason not to harm them except for plot convenience;
3- the reason Hart's team was forced to work for Interpol was to avoid jail and in the end they should all be arrested for stealing the gold, the Interpol agent discovered the gold was fake when Hart's team was both at the villain's mansion and at the plane in the mountains, the flashback shows it.
4- Reno's character was caught for murder, but he is a billionaire, and Interpol is not above the law they had an agent help steal 500 millions in gold bars from him, that would be a huge scandal, probably enough for him to walk free (that would be a better ending and bait for a revenge plot for the sequel) not that it deserves.
5- they are being forced to do this or go to jail, the minute Hart's partner decides not to board the plain he would be caught by the Interpol, what if he decided to escape?
6- in the beginning Hart's team is so good Interpol is after him but later on he is considered a small fry that nobody pays attention to, he got like 80 millions doing one job, hitting 2 places at the same time and only got caught for convenience (be blackmailed to work for Interpol), why wouldn't the villain who likes art be aware of someone skilled like him?
I hope I didn't get any points wrongs those were all from the top of my head (I won't go back to rewatch this mess), but there should be dozens more. The movie is not original, Hart is not funny nor good in the role and the best actors (Reno and D'Onofrio) were barely in the film (that is good for them).
This seems like a vanity project given to Kevin Hart, he is tired of being the funny guy, the comic relief and thought he could become an action star all of a sudden or worse someone from his staff convinced him of that, I rather watch Vin Diesel or Jason Statham doing stand-up comedy than another Kevin Hart action hero film.
Erin & Aaron (2023)
Cliche & Cliché
Where to start with this one?
I was watching this with my daughter and after a couple of minutes thought "this is bad", it has half the quality of Disney/Nick shows from 10-20 years ago and double/triple the cliches, it was so bad I came to see who was behind it, just to discover it's actually a Nickelodeon show! (I was watching on Netflix).
I know they fired Dan Schneider obviously but he was there for so many years, nobody learned nothing from him? (I'm talking about the good parts).. I could probably do a top 30+ cliches this show has and to see people reviewing as one of the best from Nick in the last couple of years is just terrible.
Go watch reruns from Victorious, Henry Danger and Wizards of Waverly Place with your kids.