Keke Palmer and Eva Longoria also star in the latest feature from director Tim Story ('The Blackening'), about a pair of armored car guards who get ensnared in a deadly pursuit.

Murphy gets in some good zings, Davidson can play endearingly obtuse, and Keke Palmer can’t help but be charismatic. But neither the script nor Story’s direction really gives anyone much of a chance to shine.

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,