7/10
Slow, but will indeed hook you if you let it.
14 September 2022
The Pickup From Hell (literally) is really 9 parts stage play and 1 part movie. With those numbers, you're thinking it would have to be pretty darn compelling to justify your time? And it is. Thanks to Justin Long, who more or less gives a one man show for 90 minutes. Long coincidentally stars in one of the movies on my "BEST" IMDb list (see below) and clearly, even more than a decade later, he has lost none of his famous "Jimmy Stewart" charm. Oddly, this is an upside-down sort of "guys" movie in that, for self-identifying male watchers, you would be constantly asking yourself, "If that were me, at what point would I have had the common sense to grab my hat, head for the door, and run down the road SCREAMING?" ((Designated "IMDb Top Reviewer." Please check out my list "167+ Nearly-Perfect Movies (with the occasional Anime or TV miniseries) you can/should see again and again (1932 to the present))
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