'Laughably bad' blockbuster on Netflix has the last laugh - becoming one of the streamer's most-watched this year

Netflix's latest deed whitethorn person been wide panned - but that hasn't stopped it becoming 1 of the platform's most-watched films this year. A existent drama of errors, but its baffling occurrence is nary joke

Netflix has yet different astonishment deed connected its hands - contempt galore deeming it an implicit travesty of a film.

Originally released successful January, Lift purports to blend high-octane enactment sequences with starring antheral Kevin Hart’s signature comedic flair, but spectacularly fails to embody the thrilling and hilarious escapade it aspires to be.

In fact, the lone hilarious happening astir this movie is its critics people connected Rotten Tomatoes - a meagre 29%. But contempt its captious mauling, the movie has inactive managed to amass a whopping 129.4m views betwixt January and June, with 238.8m hours watched.

It has besides held disconnected pugnacious contention from the likes of Under Paris, Society of the Snow, the Super Mario Brothers Movie and Mother of the Bride connected the platform. In fact, lone Millie Bobby Brown’s Damsel has been watched more, coming successful astatine the apical of the database with a gargantuan 143.8m views, and 263.7m hours watched.

Lift is an action-comedy heist movie starring Kevin Hart as a skilled and quick-witted thief recruited by the FBI for a high-stakes mission. After a bid of unfortunate run-ins with the law, our leader finds himself with fewer options but to co-operate with the authorities. His task? To propulsion disconnected 1 of the astir ambitious heists ever attempted: stealing a load of golden from a highly secured planetary formation mid-air.

Teaming up with a radical of misfit criminals and experts successful assorted fields, Kevin indispensable navigate a unsafe and thrilling plan, each portion dealing with the absurdity and chaos that ensues with his crew.

As tensions emergence and the program becomes progressively complex, the starring man's earthy charm, quick-thinking, and knack for getting retired of sticky situations are enactment to the eventual test. But with the timepiece ticking and stakes higher than ever, Kevin realises that the ngo whitethorn impact much than conscionable stealing - his endurance is besides connected the line.

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Viewers surely don't mince their words erstwhile it comes to giving Lift a kicking, with 1 Rotten Tomatoes idiosyncratic branding the movie ‘laughably bad’.

Charlie posted: ‘It was a laughably atrocious movie. Bad storyline, cringe and predictable,’ portion Hussain wrote: ‘One of the worst films I’ve ever seen'.

Anton waded successful with: ‘Even for a instrumentality of Kevin Hart movies, this is unwatchable.’

Arrows_O added: ‘This was without a uncertainty 1 of the worst enactment movies I person seen. Nonsensical and silly, and yet without thing genuinely unsocial to it. Truly awful.'

Omar A raged: ‘I emotion KH, but this movie was precise disappointing. It’s astir apt the worse movie he’s ever done. The story, the acting, the character, and the lines are poor. We couldn’t decorativeness fractional of the movie. Don’t discarded your time.’

Have you seen Lift yet? Is it truly arsenic atrocious arsenic galore are making out? Let america cognize if you're a instrumentality - oregon not - successful the comments below.