Due to their bloated budgets, with the most high-profile releases costing hundreds of millions of dollars, we often tend not to think about straight-to-streaming movies as the modern equivalent of a cheap and disposable straight-to-video one. The very nature of the movie business has led high-profile directors and stars to accept money from streaming behemoths that a studio wouldn't cough up, and nobody could seriously label a Martin Scorsese film as straight-to-video even if it did bypass more theaters than it played in. But then you see something like "The Pickup," which even with its bevy of charismatic A-list stars can't quite hide how limited its scope is compared to a big-screen action-comedy.

The first couple of acts take place largely on the same deserted stretch of highway, only

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