Pixie (2020)

Pixie (2020)

7/10

Starring

Olivia Cooke

Ben Hardy

Daryl McCormack

Chris Walley

Directed by Barnaby Thompson

With a Trainspotting vibe (where elements from it were borrowed), this movie is fun, and the comedy comes at you from all angles—in the action and the very weird family dynamic. Pixie is a British comedy-thriller film directed by Barnaby Thompson and written by Preston Thompson. Thompson is a name that can be tied to the production of 1995’s Tommy Boy and 1997’s Spice World.

Olivia Cooke is the lead in this movie, and her role is the sticky glue that holds all the incidents together. I enjoyed how the movie’s pacing is crafted, as you're left wondering what the endgame of the lady in question, Pixie (Olivia Cooke), was. Also, how the hell she was going to handle the two yahoos with her.

The movie starts with two men discussing their plans on their way to entering a building. To avoid spoilers, let's jump ahead to them entering the building and killing the men there. The men in the building were dressed in priest attire, but they were actually involved in a drug deal. These two men killed the priests and took the drugs. We soon understand that Pixie was the person behind this robbery, as she had tipped off one of the men. One of the men killed the other and was heading to kill Pixie as well.

Elsewhere, there are two other guys who met Pixie at a club, and one of them approaches her. Soon, we're at her home, with one of them hoping to get lucky. While the other guy waits in the car, he sees an angry man (one of the robbers) approaching Pixie’s home with the intention to kill her. For no reason, he runs him over. After the other guy comes out, he and his friend now have to deal with a dead body in their trunk and a bag full of drugs.

Pixie happens to be the daughter of a drug dealer and heard everything that happened leading to the death of the priests. Since she didn't see the drugs, she knew something had gone wrong with her plan. On her way home, she sees blood on the floor and, suspecting that something is off with the two men who came to her place the other night, she goes to where they live, and they tell her everything.

She tells them they'd better work with her to sell the drugs and make good money, or kill her. They decide it’s best they work with her to get the money that will set them up for a long time. She can finally get away from her family and their mafia lifestyle. How they plan to sell the drugs and the messy situations they get into along the way is what this movie is all about.

It’s fun to watch, and you get to see the funny ideas borrowed from Trainspotting.