Lift | 2024 | PG-13 | – 3.6.4

Why is “Lift” rated PG-13? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “violence and action, suggestive material and some language.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes a woman pretending to have sex behind an airplane bathroom door, a few kissing scenes, a death by gunshot with blood shown, several dangerous flying sequences with planes crashing, many threats with guns, several fight scenes with no injuries shown, many arguments and discussions of theft and robbery, and some strong language. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.

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A professional burglar (Kevin Hart) plans a heist of $500 million in gold bullion that is being transported on an A380 passenger flight for his crew of criminals (Vincent D’Onofrio, Ursula Corbero, Billy Magnussen and Kim Yoon-ji); however, things go awry and an Interpol agent (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) gets involved. Also with Sam Worthington and Jean Reno. Directed by F. Gary Gray. [Running Time: 1:46]

Lift SEX/NUDITY 3

 – A woman in an airliner washroom pretends to be having sex to keep a man who’s knocking on the door from entering; she moans many times, howls and says, “Yeah baby” and “Keep going, baby. Don’t stop” several times for about two minutes.
► A woman and a man kiss for several seconds. We see a photo-booth picture of a man and a woman kissing. A man looks at a woman longingly several times and a male friend tells him he is in love, but he denies it.
► A man seated on a bench spreads his legs wide apart so another man cannot sit down (he seems to want the other man to look at his crotch); the second man says sarcastically, “Big dog,” and looks disgusted.
► A woman wears tights with high heels and a jacket/blouse combination that reveals significant cleavage in several scenes. A close-up of a woman’s back focuses on her buttocks as she walks upstairs while wearing a knee-length skirt that has a slit in the back running up to above the knee. A man in a swimming pool at night surfaces and we see his bare chest, shoulders and arms.

Lift VIOLENCE/GORE 6

 – A door opens on a jet after a crash landing and a large crate of gold bars falls out and scatters with a thud while people exit the craft, a man from a nearby mansion pulls a handgun as a woman says she is leaving and shoots her in the thigh (she falls and we see a spot of blood); he then points his gun downwards toward the woman (she’s off-screen) and shoots; we later see footage of the man shooting the woman in the head and we see blood on her forehead as she falls back and dies. A man hangs by his bound wrists and ankles from a warehouse ceiling, another man cuts the wrist restraints and the victim hangs by his ankles, another person enters, threatens the hanging man and sets a ferocious barking dog loose on him; the scene ends and we later hear that the victim died. A plane lands hard on an ice-covered area in the Alps, skids, slices a tree in half, and tips over onto one side as it stops (no one is injured); a man takes a flight attendant hostage and later releases her while a man takes another man outside and points a gun at him, but the second man escapes when the gun explodes (we see what looks like a shredded and charred hand in a long shot as the victim screams).
► A super-jet sets down hard and skids a short distance to stop; three gunmen take three people as hostages, a man threatens the pilot several times and hits her in the head with the butt of his gun, and she shouts and slumps, but remains conscious (she has an abrasion on her forehead and cheek). A plane dives creating sliding and weightlessness of people on board, and a man kicks a gunman out a door that opens during the dive (it is implied that he fell to his death). Two extended fight scenes include men and women sliding around inside an airplane during turbulence and the pilot’s rolling of the plane from one side to another, people float temporarily in weightlessness, and they fight using punches, kicks, chokes and throws as we hear loud smacks as people shout, grunt, and growl; in one of the scenes, a few of the men point guns, but drop them and one man grabs a gunman, twists his neck and throws him head-first through a glass dividing wall that shatters as the man falls unconscious into the shattered glass (no wounds or blood are seen). A super-jet pulls out of a dive after its steering pump breaks down, and fast approaches a compound as NATO scrambles two jets to intercept it; the pilot of one NATO jet radios to the super-jet that they will shoot them down if they don’t identify themselves while an Interpol supervisor on the ground yells twice, “Shoot it down!” knowing one of his agents is onboard, a woman activates a sign on the jet that reads “Civilians on board” and the NATO jets return to base; the craft sets down hard, taxis and skids down a road and cracks through a mansion’s stone wall before it stops.
► A heist crew uses a super-jet and create a cloaking device so the plane can fly beneath a jumbo jet undetected and diverts the flight path while a man wearing a gas mask uses technology to crack a high-security safe and air pressure knocks him against a wall, but he recovers. A woman and a man drive a motorboat through canals to chase another couple in a motorboat, they are bumped by a third motorboat and temporarily stopped, but continue the chase; the two boats race for several minutes until a man tosses an electronic device into the water and a heavy iron sea wall rises across the canal cutting the chasing motorboat off.
► Two police cruisers with flashing lights arrive at a plane crash site and eight armed officers arrest a man and his associates. An Interpol agent realizes that her supervisor was not operating above board, she approaches him and slaps him hard in the face as she shouts, “I quit!” A man tells a woman that his crew stole a gold shipment by replacing the real gold with iron bars painted gold, because some people deserve to be robbed. We see TV broadcasts of major flooding in the streets of Madrid, with hundreds of cars, SUVs, and vans floating away and a criminal arranges for many gold bars to be flown to a bank in Zurich.
► Several loud arguments occur between a man and a woman. Two men argue a few times. Several people argue briefly twice. We hear that a man was killed and stuffed into several grocery bags. A man leading a crew of robbers states that he “lifts” only from the rich who deserve to be robbed and splits the spoils with his crew.
► A supervisor in a wheelchair in an air traffic control tower tells a woman to go away, she declines, and he loudly accuses her of prejudice against him because he is handicapped; she is startled and walks away. A man disguised as a senior citizen pretends to use an oxygen tank on a plane.

Lift LANGUAGE 4

 – 17 scatological terms, 10 anatomical terms, 6 mild obscenities, name-calling (stupid, stupidest, crazy, homeboy, big-dog, liars, amateurs, small-time crooks, boring), exclamations (shut-up, wow, whoo-hoo), 6 religious exclamations (e.g. oh my God, thank God, God, Holy [scatological term deleted]). | profanity glossary |

Lift SUBSTANCE USE

 – Several men and women dance with glasses of champagne in their hands (we don’t see drinking) and a man holds a champagne bottle close to the camera with the contents bubbling down the side of it, several men and women drink from rocks glasses of clear liquor, a man holds a full bottle of vodka (no one opens it or drinks it), a woman pours vodka into a glass and sips some and a man finishes the rest of the drink, a man drinks from a glass of clear liquor, a woman drinks a full glass of champagne on an airplane and we see several empty glasses at other seats. A woman tells a man on a plane that he cannot use the eCig he is holding and he puts it away (it is not really an eCig).

Lift DISCUSSION TOPICS

 – Friendship, responsibility and sacrifice, Robin Hood philosophy, new technologies, fine arts, robbery/theft, murder, greed, double-crossing, ethics, pursuing dreams, breaking rules, prejudice against people in wheelchairs, corrupt secret agents, death, loss, regret, anger, consequences, Interpol.

Lift MESSAGE

 – Justice is not always delivered by legal means.