“Lift” is a heist comedy film streaming on Netflix starring Kevin Hart and Gugu Mbatha-Raw.
Let’s dive into some trivia and facts about the film.
- Lift is a 2024 American heist comedy film
- It is directed by F. Gary Gray
- It is written by Daniel Kunka
- The film stars Kevin Hart, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Vincent D’Onofrio, Úrsula Corberó, Billy Magnussen, Jacob Batalon, Jean Reno, and Sam Worthington
- Hart also served as a producer
- Lift was released on Netflix on January 12, 2024
- In March 2021, Dan Kunka’s spec script Lift was acquired by Netflix
- With Simon Kinberg’s Genre Pictures and Matt Reeves’ 6th & Idaho set to produce
- In September, F. Gary Gray was set to direct and Kevin Hart was attached to star and produce
- Principal photography took place from February to May 2022 in Italy and Northern Ireland
- Filming occurred in March at Belfast’s Harbour Studios
- Scenes were shot in Trieste on the Miramare Castle grounds in late May
- It was originally scheduled to be released on August 25, 2023
- However, it was postponed as a result of the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike in the United States
- On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 29% rating
- Based on 42 critics’ reviews
- With an average rating of 4.6/10
- Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 40 out of 100
- Based on 18 critics
- Indicating “mixed or average” reviews
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