Eddie Murphy & Pete Davidson Comedy Action Movie – ryan

In 1982’s Hit Action Comedy 48 hours, A Young Eddie Murphy Play a Wiseaacre Criminal on Parole in Order to Help a Veteran Cop, Played by Nick Nolte, Solve a Case. Murphy Immediately Shot to Screen Stardom in the Role, Garnering Lots of Laughs Opposite Nolte’s Straight-Man. Forty-Three years late the roles are reversed in Murphy’s Latest-and Least – Streamer Movie, The Pickup.

In this one it is basically pedal-to-the-media action, High on Octane and Low on Comedy at Least from Murphy, who is playing the rraight man, an about-to-veteran Armored TRYRK DRIVER WHO IS Paired with a bumbling COHORT IN DELTS TOTS TOTS TO TO TO TO TO TO TO TO TO TO TO TO TO TO TO TO TO TO TO TO TO TO TO TO TO TO TO TO TO TO TO TO TO TO TO TO TO TO TO Be an Ordinary Pickup of Cash when they are suddenly hijacked. Pete Davidson Takes on that Role and is Responsible for Whatever Attempts at Laughs there are in this Thing. Davidson SEEMS to be channeling a new Jerry lewis here, Ironic Sine One of Murphy’s Biggest Successes was deliveting a brillian take on an early lewis in The Nutty Professor, But one playing eight different parts over two films was purely his own.

Plotwise it is russell’s (Murphy) and His Wife Natalie’s (Eva Longoria) 25th Anniversary and he is planning a special romantic dinner abight after his normal pickup at work. Told he is going to get a new part for the day, russell is all businesis as he just want to get with it quickly and move on to the special anniversary evening. Unfortunately he is stuck with travis (Davidson), a Complete Laser and Lewis-Style nitwit as we have already gathered in an Early schene at a bank where he is alsoets zoe (Keke Palmer), who paste Her phone number, setting up what the travis is a hot date. She has other plans.

SO it is isn’t long before ther trin is hijacked and set off on a non-Stop Road Chase by None Other than Zoe and the Two Goons Miguel (Jack Key) she has work with healing and heal. Chump Change in the Armored Truck She Wants, But Inspa It Is The Truck she Needs to pull this off, and its drivers who are lured into her sccheme. Of coursse it doesn’t all go accorting to plan, and is complicated by travis and his lovelorn infatuation once he discovers this is the person with whic he just had a one-night stand. Oy. But it doesn’t stop there as Natalie, sensing something might be work After talking to russell on his cell, also jumps into the action we are impulsive shows up and finds herself also at gunpoint.

There are a few twists and turns – literally – in this action flick, and the action part of it is perfectly Serviceable iF the Expectted Hilary from Two Former Snl Stars in a dreaming (Young and Old Comic Genius Combined) Fails to Materialization and is Mostly Left to Davidson to Do The Heavy Lifting. Nor he demonstrated to a finer degree in The King of Staten Island, Davidson has some real promise as a movie star, but times Screenwriters Kevin Burrow and Matt Day just let Him down. He and Murphy, who is playing it in a Much Lower Key than usual, have an easy chemistry and occisional bright moments in the pairing, but this is no 48 hours to be sura.

My directory story (Barbershop, ride along) SEEMS MUCH MO INTERESTED IN THE ROAD ACTION THAN IN PULING OFF A SMART ENTRY INTO The well-Worn Heist Genre. In fact, The Current Animated The Bad Guys 2 has a full with remarkakable similatrities to this one and pulls it off in superior style compared to The Pickup, Which May Disappaint Murphy fans hoping for the fun he has delivered in the past. The Legendary Star Has Actually Tourned Out a Lot of Terrific Movies in This Streaming Phase of His Career Including the Likeable Candy Cane Lane, break Coming 2 America sequel, DOLEMITE IS MY NAME and a terrific comedy of Think Is Way Underrated in Kenya Barris’ You People. Sadly, The Pickup, Despite it Cast, SEEMS LIKE A Minor Entry to His Esteemed Filmography.

Aside from Murphy and Davidson, palmer does exactly what is experted from her, and longoria also survives with dignity after being handhed a control that no actor culd credible; gIive her an ‘a’ for EFFORT. Andrew Dice Clay as the Armored Truck Company Dispatcher adds a bit of color and energy, while nfl great marshawn lynch and wwe personal joe aka novel reigns are also in brief cameos along the way.

Producers are John Davis, John Fox, Charisse Hewitt-Webster, Murphy and Story.

Title: The Pickup
Distributor: Amazon mgm studios
Release Date: August 6, 2025 (Streaming on Prime Video)
Director: Tim Story
Screenwriters: Kevin Burrow and Matt Day
Cast: Eddie Murphy, Pete Davidson, Keke Palmer, Eva Longoria, Ismael Cruz Cordova, Jack Resy, Andrew Dice Clay, Marshawn Lynch, Joe (Roman Reigns) Anoa’i.
Rating: R
TIME RUNNING: 1 HR 34 MINS