The Pickup (2025)
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Synopsis
While executing a standard money transport, two contrasting security guards are targeted in a sudden assault by violent thieves. This unexpected confrontation quickly escalates into a high-stakes chase, forcing the unlikely partners to cooperate to survive. As they flee, the guards realize their pursuers have an agenda that goes far beyond a simple robbery.
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Woke Score Breakdown
🎭 Race-swapped character
1The film is an original action-comedy with no pre-existing source material, meaning no characters were race-swapped from an established depiction.
🔃 Gender-swapped character
1As an original screenplay, the film features no established characters to recast as a different sex.
👥 Diverse casting
1The cast is diverse, featuring Eddie Murphy, Pete Davidson, Keke Palmer, and Eva Longoria, which realistically reflects the modern American metropolitan setting without appearing forced for demographic representation's sake.
✊ Racial messaging
1The movie is a straightforward action-comedy that does not touch upon systemic racism, racial grievances, or white culpability.
🛂 Immigrant themes
1Immigration and the immigrant experience are entirely absent from the narrative.
🪶 Indigenous peoples
1The film does not address indigenous peoples, colonization, or related issues.
🏳️🌈 LGBT characters
1There are no LGBT characters or themes depicted in the film.
♀️ Feminist themes
1While Keke Palmer plays a highly competent and dangerous criminal mastermind, her character serves as a standard action-movie antagonist without any critique of traditional gender roles or systemic anti-male messaging.
🏢 Anti-capitalist themes
1The plot focuses on a heist involving contraband and a casino, which is used strictly as a genre vehicle rather than a critique of corporate greed or capitalism.
🌱 Environmental issues
1Environmental and climate themes are completely absent from the film.
Content Rating Breakdown
💋 Sex & Nudity
ModerateWhile no explicit sexual acts are shown on-screen, the film includes partial nudity, showing Travis in his underwear and Zoe in her bra and a bikini. The film features frequent, highly crude sexual dialogue, references to a one-night stand, BDSM song lyrics, sexual gestures, and multiple jokes about sexual encounters.
🩸 Violence & Gore
SevereThe film contains high-stakes violence and action, including a scene where a man is run over by a truck with audible bone-crunching sounds. Additionally, a character is shot in the leg on-screen before being executed off-screen, several other characters are shot during gunfights, captives are struck with gun butts, and a group of characters are covered in gasoline with the intent of being burned alive. Frequent car crashes, flips, and explosions occur throughout.
🤬 Profanity
SevereStrong and vulgar language is used pervasively, including over 80 instances of the f-word and nearly 60 uses of the s-word. Other profanities include 'ass,' 'bitch,' 'bastard,' 'dick,' 'piss,' and 'douchebag,' alongside Spanish vulgarities and multiple instances of God's and Jesus's names being taken in vain.
🍺 Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
ModerateCharacters are shown drinking alcohol in social settings, including a scene where Travis gets visibly drunk on a date. There is also a brief, non-literal verbal reference to a 'meth lab on wheels,' though no actual drug use is depicted.
👻 Frightening & Intense Scenes
SevereThe film features sustained sequences of intense peril, including armed ambushes, characters being held at gunpoint, tied up, and taken hostage. A particularly tense sequence involves captives being doused in gasoline and threatened with being burned alive.