{"id":1300,"date":"2024-06-20T07:07:34","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T07:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/20\/lift\/"},"modified":"2024-06-20T07:07:34","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T07:07:34","slug":"lift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/20\/lift\/","title":{"rendered":"Lift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"s1\">\u201cLift\u201d is as generic and forgettable as its title, the kind of glossy, empty action picture that Netflix just keeps pumping out, whether we need it or not. It\u2019s not as aggressively glib as \u201cRed Notice,\u201d for example, but rather is more in line with \u201cThe Gray Man\u201d: Competently made and star-studded, with a couple of intriguing ideas, but hollow.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">Veteran director F. Gary Gray has made better action movies in the past (\u201cSet It Off,\u201d \u201cThe Italian Job\u201d) and will likely do so again. Like so many films before it, \u201cLift\u201d is about an eclectic collection of con artists trying to pull off a seemingly impossible heist. That premise offers some pleasures, especially as the assignment becomes increasingly complicated. But there\u2019s so little to the characters in the screenplay from Daniel Kunka that it\u2019s difficult to care whether they get away with it, and the special effects look so detached from reality that it often feels like we\u2019re playing a video game.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLift\u201d is as generic and forgettable as its title, the kind of glossy, empty action picture that Netflix just keeps pumping out, whether we need it or not. It\u2019s not as aggressively glib as \u201cRed Notice,\u201d for example, but rather is more in line with \u201cThe Gray Man\u201d: Competently made and star-studded, with a couple &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[36,33,50,46],"class_list":["post-1300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-action-movies","tag-action","tag-comedy","tag-crime","tag-netflix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}