It’s been decades since Eddie Murphy made an honest-to-goodness funny movie, and The Pickup won’t break that dispiriting streak.
Going straight to Prime Video on August 6 even though, in a just world, it would be released on DVD and sent directly to a Big Box retailer’s bargain bin, this heist comedy is a half-baked throwaway that’s so busy staging third-rate action sequences that it forgets to concoct a single passable joke.
Paired with Pete Davidson and Keke Palmer, two likable personalities given nothing witty to say or do, the legendary star spends the majority of this misfire looking alternately bored and really bored—an emotion that viewers will find all-too-relatable.
Russell (Murphy) is a workaholic armored truck driver who’s less than eager to retire and start up a bed and br