‘Pixie’ Review: In Ireland, They’ve Seen Too Many Tarantino Movies, Too

and his writer son Preston goes beyond homage or aspirational imitation, into the realm of pale, shameless mimicry.

We meet Olivia Cooke’s titular figure at her ma’s grave, swearing today is the day “we’ll finally set a bomb under this town for what they did to you.” But Pixie’s original plan is undone, as she’s left stewing at the airport, waiting for a no-show companion to board a plane to San Francisco. That has much to do with what happened after her ex-boyfriend Colin and apparent current one Fergus robbed a quartet of priests in incongruous possession of much cash, as well as 15 kilos of MDMA.

This will be difficult, as various parties are already hot on the trail of the stolen loot, including a goon squad ruled by Pixie’s own IRA gun runner turned commercial crime boss, Dermot , and the improbable network of “deadly gangster priests” led by Father McGrath . Those two factions have a longstanding grudge match whose uneasy truce this new trouble ends, with Pixie and her new besties caught in the crossfire.

Nothing about Pixie is credible , yet neither she nor the film are flamboyantly artificial enough for that to work as a deliberate gambit. The dullards, psychos, schemers and bystanders she’s surrounded with are expertly cast, but as written they are one-dimensional without the zest of outsized caricature. Sudden violent reversals of fortune ring hollow; nothing here has resonance on the one hand, or real wit on the other.

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