Formula 51 (The 51st State) Reviews
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After creating the most addictive drug known to man, Samuel Jackson and Robert Carlyle go on the run looking for a buyer in what turns out to be a joyride of a movie that takes its inspiration from similar films that have come before it.
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...starts out well enough, with its quirky directorial touches and even quirkier storyline, but finally becomes just too overwhelming.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
CinemaBlend.com
Jackson is always watchable.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
San Francisco Examiner
Best described as the cinematic equivalent of junk food: loaded with synthetic additives, deficient in nutritional benefits, but uniquely and undeniably satisfying if you have an appetite for such stuff.
| Original Score: 2.5/4
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)
"Formula 51" is an intense, over-the-top mix that results in an entertaining slay ride.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/4
Boxoffice Magazine
The energy of star Samuel L. Jackson manages to carry the film through its lulls.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
New Times
For what it is, though, this formula provides a movie high worth experiencing.
San Diego Union-Tribune
If you are a moviegoer who realizes that your habit is not sustained by absurd demands on taste and sensitivity, then Formula 51 is the party junk you need as relief from worse junk.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Gun fights, car chases, action stunts and explosions abound, along with a finale that's the bloodiest thing this side of the Alien stomach-ripper. Party on, dudes.
| Original Score: 6/10
The fun of the movie is the chance it affords to watch Jackson, who also served as executive producer, take his smooth, shrewd, powerful act abroad.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Formula 51 is bloody and bloody funny, and Jackson and Carlyle make the best salt-and-pepper team since Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte knocked heads in 48 HRS., but ultimately the movie can't find a way out of its own dead end.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Talking Pictures (U.S.)
...mindless fun...
Full Review | Original Score: 3/4
Formula 51 isn't a rousing success, but its sheer outrageousness is infectious, and, for those willing to get into the experience, it is capable of delivering.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Greater Milwaukee Today
I enjoyed "Formula 51" in a guilty kind of way
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| Original Score: 3/4
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