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The Pickup film review: Entertaining but fractured buddy carper
Updated On: 10 August, 2025 12:25 AM IST | Mumbai | Johnson Thomas
The Pickup, directed by Tim Story and streaming on Amazon Prime, is a buddy comedy-heist film buoyed by the chemistry between Eddie Murphy and Pete Davidson. Davidson plays Travis, a hapless armored truck guard, while Murphy’s Russ is his reluctant partner on a high-risk route
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Film: The Pickup
Cast: Keke Palmer, Pete Davidson, Jef Holbrook, Eddie Murphy, Eva Longoria, Andrew Dice Clay, Jack Kesy, Ismael Cruz Cordova
Director: Tim Story
Rating: 2.5/5
Runtime: 94 min
Tim Story’s Amazon Prime fare, ‘The Pickup’ is not a smooth ride but it is entertaining mainly because the fresh new buddy combo of Eddie Murphy and Pete Davidson manage to generate enough chemistry and laughs.
At the start of the movie, Travis (Pete Davidson), the dopey armor truck guard who panics under pressure, pulls a gun on a customer at a bank, thinking the woman is trying to rob him. But Zoe (Keke Palmer), just wants to give him her number.
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