In recent times, we had been Rather pleasantly surprised by the news offered by Prime Video. Mr Wolff 2, Warfare, Heads of State… So many programs to recommend to various degrees. Like any streaming service that produces – or recovers the exclusivity of international dissemination – en masse, like its competitors, the catalog accumulates also a lot of black sheep. Recently, you could make fun of Shadow Force or drink a sip with each photo of Countdown. You can guess which side leans the scale of The Pickup…
RUssell (Eddie Murphy) is a conveyor about to retire. His only goal is to end his day as quickly as possible to enjoy a wedding anniversary dinner with his wife (Eva Longoria) the same evening. For his last trip, He must give money to New Jersey with a new driverTravis (Pete Davidson).
The latter is a real pipelette that does not think much before speaking and the journey promises to be very long for the two men. Except that on the road, Their truck becomes the target of three individuals Seeking to recover the machine and to use it to turn a casino. At the controls of the operation, Zoé (Keke Palmer), a young woman with whom Travis has just spent the night. Very quickly, Russell and Travis will be forced to participate in the breakage … and we give you Three reasons to avoid pressing reading.
Non -playable characters
The Pickup East A model of actors under or poorly exploitedespecially because the rhythm of the film bridles each attempt to thicken the protagonists. We are deeply convinced that Pete Davidson can have a good career in the cinema. But apart from a few exceptions like The King of Staten Islandthe comic of Saturday Night Live Lack of opportunities worthy of the name. Here, He is responsible for carrying the entire humorous aspect of the film – A height when he was added Eddie Murphy, we will come back to it – in a script that soaps her board.
Difficult to be funny when his character was portrayed from the first minutes as a parodic figure within a intrigue written in the first degree. Travis is only written to be the idiot of service that makes tons in it despite attempts to make it endearing. We will also have Lots of trouble for Eva Longoria which does its best despite a role in a post-it. Only Keke Palmer manages a minimum to existstealing the show regularly to its male counterparts.
Eddie Murphy is bored as much as we have the pickup
Far from the time when Eddie Murphy’s films proudly occupied the obscure rooms. Despite a beautiful resurrection in Dolemite Is My Namethe actor now lives streaming services with projects ranging from means to very (very) weak. However, we have always had this impression that he was investing a minimum in his films.
Which is not the case with The Pickup. With the excuse of his character’s fatigue, Murphy does not pretend to have nothing to do with it, not even trying to reconnect with his comic aura of yesteryear. He shows no energy, no inspiration and keeps the face of a disillusioned, resigned actor, who knows his career permanently behind him. He was known to him, but he had the merit of trying to make them success. There, The only thing in common between the actor and his role is that the two just seem to want to go home.
An action -free action comedy
You could tell you that it is there, our good old category of “watchable then forgettable” works whose SVOD platforms are full. Except not. For this, it would still be necessary that The Pickup has a minimum of the desire to entertain us despite low proposals. Here, We will only save a sequence of action an explosive bit which seems to be the only one to have kept the interest of director Tim Story (The Fantastic 4 of the 2000s, Tom & Jerry…). Everything else seems lifelessaccording to an automatic course which does not even check the entertainment boxes.
Once at the heart of the plot, the scenario of Kevin Burrows and Matt Mider will simply pass fromOne event to another with extreme flatness. A casino turning scene does not differ from that of a meal in the restaurant, whether in staging or writing. Humor is never funny enough, the action never captivating enoughand we have your eyes fixed on the minutes that never parade quickly enough.
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You can offer the credit of a failed feature to sometimes push the cursor so far in the wrong taste that it makes him almost memorable. We remember very wellIn The Lost Lands For example. The Pickup does not even make this effort. There are films that we can forget a few hours after viewing, The Pickup achieves the feat of forgetting.
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