Prime Video’s The Pickup Review: I Am Far More Baffled Than Amused By Eddie Murphy And Pete Davidson’s Heist Comedy

Russell and Travis screaming while driving armored truck with tear gas in the air in The Pickup.

If you look up “project that sounds way better on paper” and “wasted opportunity” in the dictionary, you won’t actually find anything, because that’s not how dictionaries work. In a world where those concepts were included, however, Prime Video’s new action-comedy The Pickup would be the pictured and heavily cited example, because wow, what an exercise in unexpectedly rampant disappointment. But how?

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Release Date: August 6, 2025
Directed By: Tim Story
Written By: Kevin Burrows & Matt Mider
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Pete Davidson, Keke Palmer, Eva Longoria, Ismael Cruz Cordova, Jack Kesy, Andrew Dice Clay
Rating: R for language throughout, some sexual references and violence.
Runtime: 94 minutes