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.
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.