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THE PICKUP MOVIE REVIEW
Eddie Murphy returns with The Pickup, another straight-to-streaming action-comedy. Murphy stars as Russell, a long-time armored truck driver on the verge of retirement, who finds his last stretch on the job complicated when he’s paired with Travis (Pete Davidson). Travis dreams of becoming a cop, but his lack of tact—and basic smarts—makes that ambition questionable at best. Their routine route takes a sharp turn when Zoe (Keke Palmer), a criminal mastermind, targets the truck, sparking a high-speed chase that forces the unlikely partners to defend a payload of cash and contraband. Russell is focused on finishing his shift and making it to his anniversary dinner with his wife (Eva Longoria), while Travis seems intent on filling every quiet moment with nervous chatter, wild energy, and more than a few fart jokes. Melina, Kimberly, and T.C. race down the One Of Us airstrip to discuss how much more capable each of them are when it comes to pulling off heists and whether or not this movie is worth putting in a bank vault or letting it be abandoned on the side of a highway.
DIRECTED BY: Tim Story
STARRING: Eddie Murphy, Pete Davidson, Keke Palmer, Jack Kesy, Ismael Cruz Córdova, Eva Longoria, Andrew Dice Clay, Jef Holbrook, Marshawn Lynch, Roman Reigns, Lara Grice
YOUR REVIEWERS
T.C. De Witt (Screener Squad)
T.C. De Witt is a multi-awarded writer/director originally from Wisconsin and now based in Los Angeles. His life has been devoted to the arts since he was a child. He’s been a stage performer, playwright, stand-up comic, film and television actor, radio DJ, podcaster published author, recorded musician, and comic writer/illustrator. He is now a professional screenwriter and has been thriving for the past decade, regularly offering his talents to production studios in LA, Chicago, Milwaukee, and internationally in Sydney and Poland. He’s provided content for Amazon Prime, Netflix, and several YouTube partners. His films have screened internationally, and his stageplays have been performed across the country. In the last ten years, he has directed 57 films, 23 episodes of his series The One Minute Rewatch, 300+ episodes of podcasts, and his multi-award-winning short film Screen: Righter screened at the Festival de Cannes in 2016. He has released two feature films, The Princess Knight and A Christmas Sunset. He thrives on collaboration and the thrill of sharing stories in all forms.
Kimberly Brown (Highly Suspect Reviews)
Kimberly wants to live in a world filled with blue telephone boxes, speedsters, and ice dragons but through an ironic twist of fate, she’s stuck in this reality where these wondrous things only exist on page or film. Kim’s perpetual desire to consume sci-fi and fantasy media as a teen led her to the study of illustration/design at university to better understand its creation. Currently an Austin transplant, when she’s not wearing her critic hat you can find her pretending to like hiking, fielding questions about her hair or maybe even enjoying a local brew at the nearest dive bar.
Melina Eames (Screener Squad)
Melina first discovered that she carried the nerd gene at the tender age of four following her exposure to a little film called A New Hope. In the twenty-some years that followed, Melina continued to grow into her geek identity through the discovery of Batman, Mst3k, Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings and The Mandalorian. But perhaps her most significant discovery came at the age of fourteen when a night of YouTube mining led her to the review site of Spill.com. Melina became a devoted follower whose fandom did not end with the site’s demise. By then, it had worked its dark magic and left her with a love and appreciation for film criticism that she has yet to shrug.
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