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Came across this quite by chance, and what a little gem of a film. Double crossing and more double crossing with Pixie manipulating everyone who crosses her path. Think Guy Richie on a low budget, that kind of story, but Irish instead of Cockneys. Well worth a watch if you like gangster flicks. I wouldn't rate it as a comedy, but the humour is there, and quite dark it is. It is what it is, a very enjoyable watch.

Modern day Ireland. Pixie (Olivia Cooke) is out to avenge the death of her mother and start a new life - but when a botched drug heist threatens the truce between her gangster father (Colm Meaney) and church leader Father Hector (Alec Baldwin) she finds herself on the run with two strangers (Ben Hardy, Daryl McCormack) who are as eager to start a new life as she is.

Pixie Hardy (Olivia Cooke) is a smart, funny and manipulating tease. Exactly the kind of woman your mum would warn you away from (but also the kind she's secretly rooting for). Pixie is joined by hapless companions Frank (Ben Hardy) and Harland (Daryl McCormack) when the aftermath of a botched drug heist, involving Catholic priests, sees them thrust together introducing Alec Baldwin's shady Father Hector.

With the first half hour spent establishing the trio's characters (and teenage jokes) the film is in no rush to get going. More time is spent introducing the lead characters and setting up the uncomplicated plot (how to get rid of an absurd amount of drugs) rather than cutting to the chase.

Almost a hybrid of Snatch, Hot Fuzz and On the Road, this is a fun take on the classic road-trip film. The sense of adventure and threat of the story is balanced with an undercurrent of dark humour.

Whether panning across the countryside, rural areas of Sligo or the Irish coastline, the cinematography here is stunning. Great care has been taken to capture the feeling of isolation - the sights of Ireland's West Coast are truly beautiful.

With a cast of supporting characters and short cameos (Colm Meaney, Dylan Moran) this is a fun ride - But It's definitely Pixie's show and Olivia Cooke's mesmerising performance without a doubt carries this.

Pixie is a simply to follow film. The three lead actors give great performances. I'd not watched the trailers before going in so seeing Alec Baldwin was a pleasant surprise, however he is very underused, only showing up late on then returning for the finale. Olivia Cooke is great as Pixie, her Irish accent very rarely slipping. The film is very well directed, the only place is falls down is towards the end the characters begin to make silly decisions and it becomes very predictable. However this film flows along very well at 1 hour 33 minutes and supplies some good laughs here and there, as well as utilising the stunning scenery.

I lost count of how many people got shot, I think it was 4 before the opening credits, that's why it's a 15 The comedy does fit in with the violence and drugs, somehow. There is some spectacular Irish scenery, that made it worth watching in the cinema. Overall, it's fun but a bit mixed up. It's not terrible.

If Quentin Tarantino and Guy Richie had a love child, this is it. I enjoy both these directors/writers and enjoyed this comic crime romp. No clever editing, just a fun tale well told.

The best way to describe Pixie is it's an Irish comedy western .

It stars Olivia Cooke ( Pixie) ,who to avenge her mother's death , masterminds a heist with two lads , they flee across Ireland from gangsters, take on her father and nasty step brother and confront a bunch of psychopathic priests .

I have to say I was really disappointed with this . Considering it has Alec Baldwin , Ned Dennehy and Colm Meaney in it , I was expecting something with far more substance but instead , all I got was a ridiculously over the top , not very funny , comedy.

The best thing about the film is Olivia Cooke . Her character is clever and she users her charm to manipulate the two boys well but even that charm wears off after a a while for the viewer .

The climax of the film , in the church is utterly ridiculous . Director Barnaby Thompson tries to nurture his inner Tarantino but fails miserably I'm afraid , although it is interesting to see Alec Baldwin with a gun in his hand !

If you are considering watching this - Stop . Go find a film called Calm With Horses instead - Also set in Ireland but one hundred times better than this caper .

This was overall a pretty solid crime film. It had comedy, some good action and a cute girl lead. Olivia cooke does a pretty good irish accent, so does alec baldwin for that mater. She is fantastic and adds so much character to the film. The run time is perfect to keep the film compact but at the same time helps it flow in a good way. The rest of cast I fell also add their own flares to their roles and even down to the shoot out in the church it is all pretty well done. Ben hardy and daryl.mccormac as our second leads are interesting and work well in the threesome dynamic. And lastly colm meaney who is always a fun addition to any cast. Overall I feel this film was fun and ticked all the right boxes.

Rump elaborating how to make quick money in the emerald country. its drugs, its priests, its druglords and kingpins, its assassinators, and its the police all of them in some way are related either the bloody way or trough friendship, because the irish rural countryside townships are so small that everybody knows somebody that knows everyone.

its not a film that brings a surprise, cause its generic to its kind, the actors are pretty seasoned tomatoes, full of juicy fruit , gunpowder and the survival of the fittest, eg the sweetest, the strongest and the most beautiful of the Kirkpatricks and malonees.

its sort of fon but as mentioned predictabel so its a one night one try flick, that will dig its grave in 90 mins, until theyre gone and their forgotten these forgotten sons...its a weak 7 from the grumpy old man

I sort of liked parts of this movie, and was a bit let down by the holes in it.

Olivia was breezy and cool but a lot of what happened to her seemed like good luck, but the film made it out to be clever calculation. I had to suspend quite a bit more disbelief than I was comfortable with.

There were some funny and clever plot points here. Colin Meaney's step dad character was nice, although he was playing a character we've seen him do a lot.

Not sure where they were going with the cross dressing forced bi thing but, it was mildly funny, and would have had more impact if it wasn't just some rudderless character inflicting herself on an admittedly already crooked world. 2 Wrongs don't make a right here either.

In-between the handful of clever plot ideas there were a lot of bog standard tropes and this is probably why this movie wasn't more successful. The holes really did drag it down and make it hard to root for anyone.

I really like a lot of the actors and components of this film but the whole was less than the sum of its parts and I left feeling conflicted.

I wanted to love it, but, it fell short of that.

You know sometimes when you see a trailer you think "oh yeah - this is a must see"! The trailer for "Pixie" (see below) was one such moment for me. A spaghetti western set in Sligo? With Alec Baldwin as a "deadly gangster priest"? Yes, yes, yes!

In a remote Irish church, two Irish priests and two "visiting Afghan Catholic priests" are gunned down by a couple of losers in animal masks - Fergus (Fra Fee) and Colin (Rory Fleck Byrne) - over a stash of MDMA worth a million Euros. This reignites a simmering gang war between the gangster families of Dermot O'Brien (Colm Meaney) and Father Hector McGrath (Alec Baldwin). Linking everything together is Pixie (Olivia Cooke), O'Brien's daughter, who has a magnetic effect on men. She is somehow subtly the woman controlling everything going on.

Drawn into the mayhem are hapless teens Frank (Ben Hardy) and Harland (Daryl McCormack) - both of who have the hots for Pixie - who embark on a wild and bloody road-trip around southern Ireland.

Key to your belief in the ridiculous story is that the character of Pixie has to have the beauty and charisma to utterly enslave the poor men she crosses paths with: taking a "Kalashnikov to their hearts" as drug dealer Daniel (Chris Walley) puts it. And Olivia Cooke - so good in "Ready Player One" - absolutely and completely nails the role. I'm utterly in love with her after this movie, and she's thirty years too young for me! There's a sparkle and a mischief behind her that reminded me strongly of a young Audrey Hepburn.

Supporting her really well are the "Harry and Ron" to Cooke's Hermione - Ben Hardy (Roger Taylor in "Bohemian Rhapsody") and Daryl McCormack. And the trio make a truly memorable "love triangle". A bedroom scene manages to be both quietly erotic and excruciatingly funny in equal measure.

The direction here is by Barnaby Thompson, who's better known as a producer with the only previous movie directing credits being the St Trinian's reboots in 2007/09. Here he manages to channel some of the quirky camera shots of the likes of Guy Ritchie and Matthew Vaughn and mix them with the black humour and comedic gore of Quentin Tarantino. The taciturn hit-man Seamus (Ned Dennehy) typifies the comedy on offer, using a Land Rover to drag a poor victim round in a figure of eight on a soggy moor to make him talk!

Where I think the movie wimps out a bit is in an ecclesiastical shoot-out finale. Vaughn's "Kingsman: The Secret Service" set the bar here for completely outrageous and out-there church-based violence. Here, the scene is both tame by comparison (not necessarily a bad thing!), but also highly predictable. Given this is supposed to be "a plan", none of it feels to be very well thought-through! As such, belief can only be suspended for so long.

The visuals and music are fab. The cinematography - by veteran John de Borman - makes the west Ireland coast look utterly glorious and the Irish tourist board must have been delighted. There are also some beautifully-framed shots: a boot-eye (US: trunk-eye) perspective is fabulous, and there's a gasp-inducing fade-back to Pixie's face following a flashback. And a shout-out too to the editing by Robbie Morrison, since some of the plot twists are delivered as expert surprises.

The music - by Gerry Diver and David Holmes - is also spectacularly good at propelling the action and maintaining the feel-good theme.

Where I did have issues was with the audio mix. I'm sure there were a bunch of clever one-liners buried in there, but the combination of the accents (and I've worked in Northern Ireland for 20 years and am "tuned in"!) and the sound quality meant I missed a number of them. I will need another watch with subtitles to catch them all.

Thanks to ANOTHER WRETCHED LOCKDOWN in the UK this was my last trip to the cinema for at least a month: I was one of only four viewers in the "Odeon" cinema for this showing. Because it's a great shame that so few people will get to see this (at least for a while), since its the sort of feelgood movie that we all need right now. Slick and utterly entertaining, I'll quietly predict that this one will gain a following as a mini-cult-classic when it gets to streaming services. Recommended.

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There is about a minute in the film where Dylan Moran has a cameo. He is gloriously over the top in that particular style that he has but it is no match for Pixie played by Olivia Cooke.

Olivia effortlessly steals every scene she is in and even some where she is just in the background. There are many comic moments and even a few recognisable actors like Colm Meany and Alec Baldwin but no one gets the traction that Cookes character does.

It must have been fun for her to do. Early on she leaves a bullet on the graveside of her mother. I don't know what that means but "unfinished business" might be a good guess.

It turns out that the death of her mother connected to many later events but we don't find that out till much later.

Two gunmen break into a church and kill a bunch of priests. They steal a big bag of drugs from the priest mob run by Father Hector McGrath (Alec Baldwin). The two guys die from complications of Pixie (Olivia Cooke). Soon, she's on the run with two other idiots. Her mobster stepfather Dermot O'Brien (Colm Meaney) is a rival to the priests.

This starts with a good scene shooting a bunch of priests. I was sold on these two idiots but the movie quickly kills them off. Instead, it replaces them with two less compelling idiots. I don't like Frank and Harland. Frank is cocky for no reason and both of them are overly idiotic. Pixie is the best of the bunch. At least, she's fun injecting her chaos. It's trying to be irreverent. The final battle doesn't work for me. A lot of this don't work but Pixie does.

If you are a fan of sexist stereotypes, this is the film for you. The men are without exception morons, they might be nasty violent morons or they might be blokes who think like women (as beloved of soaps), but still morons.

The women are clever, unscrupulously manipulative, have zero warmth or generosity and are just all around nasty. The main character Pixie is not someone a rational person would want anywhere near their life.

Oh, and "Come to Ireland". What on earth for, if they're like that?

Nice little movie with solid acting from older and some younger actors. I liked the pace and the flow of the story, and that it's ruthless at times - but not so much. By reading other reviews I expected rivers of blood, and it's not that way at all - I mean yes, the body count gets high by the end of the movie, but it's not an endless carnage and there's very little gore. The church/priest part of the story was unexpected in a nice way - and nuns with shotguns is always a pleasure.

What I didn't like was the said church side of the story was very short and with no background whatsoever), and main frustration was the Pixie character - she was too selfish and psychotic to relate to, yet too soft and actionless at some points, so it wasn't clear which one it's supposed to be - a brave ruthless criminal or a tender girl that lost her mom. If it was supposed to be both, it wasn't portrayed well.

But overall it a pretty solid action with engaging plot, vivid characters and beautiful landscapes.

The Location and scenery were great. A couple of the jokes were funny. But to be honest it felt like there wasn't a lot going on in the movie.

Pixie is an Irish based movie about a young lady played by Olivia Cooke to avenge her mother's death, go against the patriarchy that distributes drugs and choose her own destiny. Her step father is a mob boss played by Colm Meaney and her friends Ben Hardy and Daryl McCormack help her out to defeat the bad guys. The head of the patriarch is played by Alec Baldwin, who was a convincing Irish priest. This dark humor film was well made and great actors and good script. The Thompson brothers wrote and directed this film. I would definitely recommend this movie, it's short, enjoyable and better than I thought it would be.

The scenery is nice. The film shows young men not to trust women and that they are void of thanking men with anything other than sex and that men are not worth as much as money. Shame as it could have had a better message. But for those that have been burned in a relationship it will probably justify their hatred. Quite sad that someone with issues felt they needed to write the story.

Producer and (turned newb) director Barnaby Thompson directed the film, and his cast perfectly. Newb (third writing credit, first being a short) Preston Thompson (Barnaby's son) came up with a great story that was fluid, perfectly paced and the just-right runtime at 93 mins.

It had audacity, humor, suspense, action, with some far fetched moments and plenty of charm. I enjoyed the shoot-em-up straight out of the Tarantino playbook scenes that were unexpected and hilarious. Sure the story isn't anything original, but its infectious humor just may catch your mood, and give you that much-needed smile and lift.

What really elevated this film was Olivia Cooke, who was sheer perfection in her character. Casting overall was excellent, and it was great to see Colm Meaney and Alec Baldwin.

The score and cinematography were on point and the stunning Irish landscapes were incredible. The Thompson father and son duo should be very proud with their result, especially being novice filmmakers. It's a fun and funny film I really enjoyed and will probably see again.

Ignore all the Trump's Baldwin haters and the stuck-up religious freaks who can't understand parody and humor. This little gem was awesome in every way. It's a well deserved 9/10 from me. To read how I rate and review films, or to see more of my 1000+ reviews, click on my username. Then go see this wonderful film!

This was a whole lot of folk running about, shoot-outs, funny Irish accents and shenanigans throughout.

Great soundtrack and a whole lot of "what the hell is happening" moments. Definitely draws from the likes of Tarantino and Guy Ritchie - albeit in a quirky indie Irish style.

Fargo, The Gentleman and Derry Girls came to mind while watching this. You could tell Olivia Cooke was having a lot of fun with this role. The whole thing made me laugh out loud numerous times.

I liked its style and swagger, and the cinematography was breathtaking. Made me want to book a flight to that part of the world. Despite its strong points, it loses its way at times and not every scene hits the mark or the laughter button.

It was an entertaining ride though, and that's all I wanted.

Isn't that what they said about The Snapper? Another piece of trash. Sorry, your review is too short. It needs to contain at least 150 characters. There ya go more characters than the film had.

I like Olivia Cooke, she is attractive and a good, versatile young actress. In a prior movie she was a SW USA waitress turned to prostitution to earn her way to San Francisco. Interestingly in "Pixie" she is Irish and also working to get to San Francisco. I like quirky movies, and I like the distorted sensibilities of Irish and British movies, but this one has too many serious flaws. I enjoyed the dark humor at times but overall can't give it a very positive rating.

At the core is Pixie, a charming but devious young lady who will do whatever she needs to get to her chosen destination. She uses her charms to get the cooperation of gullible young men. Quite by happenstance they come upon a satchel full of drugs estimated to have a street value of one million. Then they find that the Catholic pastor of a local church and his priests and nuns are the drug kingpins.

While all this creates many interesting situations the filmmakers resort to way too many point blank, execution style killings with gunshots to the head. Plus a big shootout in the church. This approach to dark humor becomes too vulgar in its total effect.

Good actors, interesting story concepts, just executed (no pun intended) very badly. Mainly for movie fans who enjoy lots of shooting and violence.

At home on DVD from my public library.

No pun intended - the movie has a main character - but many other cool ones to add and also assist sometimes. Still she has to break out on her own - again no pun intended. There will be blood and there will be violence. Some crazy things are going to happen along the way/ride.

Some actors seem to appear in cameo style like roles. Pixie is a complicated character - or rather her circumstances are complicated. She has one goal in mind. And will take any help along the way. Good for her you may say - and maybe good for those helping out ... or is it? Well you have to watch through to find out - which brings us back to the beginning ... which is the end ... my friend ... ok that is way more cryptic than I intended and then the movie actually is. This is some simple fun action movie ... and good at it.