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NUMBERS
Box Office: $5,142,921
VHS Rentals: $2,760,000
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CONSENSUS
Filled with profanities, Formula 51 is a stylized and incoherent mess that doesn't add up to much.
CAST & CREW
Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Carlyle, Emily Mortimer
Directed by Ronny Yu
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SYNOPSIS
Formula 51 is the story of Elmo McElroy (Samuel L. Jackson), a streetwise American master chemist who heads to England to sell his special new formula -- a powerful blue concoction guaranteed to take you to the 51st State. more...
MPAA RATING
R, strong violence, language, drug content, and some sexuality
RUNTIME
1 hour, 33 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Oct 18, 2002
Video: Feb 4, 2003
RELEASE COMPANY
Screen Gems
GENRE
Action/Adventure, Comedies, Action, Drugs, Drug Dealers, Los Angeles, California, Chemists/Chemistry
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Formula 51 Site
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PARENTS EVALUATION
POSTERS
TRAILER & MEDIA
PHOTOS
TIDBITS
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SUBMIT/EDIT ARTICLE
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 "It should be doing a lot of things, but doesn't."
-- The Wolf, IOFILM.CO.UK
 "Formula 51 is pretty much Quentin Tarantino meets Guy Ritchie, as directed by Ronny Yu. However, if you like that sort of thing, as I do, you just might have some fun with the chemical imbalance of Formula 51."
-- Staci Layne Wilson, FANTASTICA DAILY
"Just as the lousy Tarantino imitations have subsided, here comes the first lousy Guy Ritchie imitation."
-- Jeffrey Westhoff, NORTHWEST HERALD (CRYSTAL LAKE, IL)
"Thoughtless, random, superficial humour and a lot of very bad Scouse accents"
-- Ian Waldron-Mantgani, UK CRITIC
"A kilted Jackson is an unsettling sight, and indicative of his, if you will, out-of-kilter character, who rambles aimlessly through ill-conceived action pieces."
-- Phil Villarreal, ARIZONA DAILY STAR
"Jackson is always watchable."
-- Joshua Tyler, FILM HOBBIT
"In exactly 89 minutes, most of which passed as slowly as if I'd been sitting naked on an igloo, Formula 51 sank from quirky to jerky to utter turkey."
-- Lawrence Toppman, CHARLOTTE OBSERVER
"For what it is, though, this formula provides a movie high worth experiencing."
-- Luke Y. Thompson, NEW TIMES
"I enjoyed “Formula 51” in a guilty kind of way"
-- Steven Snyder, GREATER MILWAUKEE TODAY
"It never quite makes it to the boiling point, but manages to sustain a good simmer for most of its running time."
-- Chuck Schwartz, CRANKY CRITIC®
"Formula 51 is so trite that even Yu's high-energy action stylings can't break through the stupor."
-- Rene Rodriguez, MIAMI HERALD
"With an unusual protagonist (a kilt-wearing Jackson) and subject matter, the improbable "Formula 51" is somewhat entertaining, but it could have been much stronger."
-- Bryan Reesman, CITYSEARCH
"Ken Russell would love this. In one scene, we get a stab at soccer hooliganism, a double-barreled rip-off of Quentin Tarantino’s climactic shootout — and Meat Loaf explodes."
-- Jonathan R. Perry, TYLER MORNING TELEGRAPH (TEXAS)
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"Excessive, profane, packed with cartoonish violence and comic-strip characters."
-- Scott Von Doviak, FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM
"This action-thriller/dark comedy is one of the most repellent things to pop up in a cinematic year already littered with celluloid garbage."
-- Jeff Vice, DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY
"...mindless fun..."
-- Tony Toscano, TALKING PICTURES
"While it's nice to watch a movie that hasn't been focus-grouped into tedium, Yu's cinematic alchemy produces nearly as much lead as gold."
-- Tor Thorsen, REEL.COM
"A recipe for cinematic disaster...part Quentin Tarantino, part Guy Ritchie, and part 1960s spy spoof, it's all bad."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"Formula 51 has dulled your senses faster and deeper than any recreational drug on the market."
-- Gerry Shamray, SUN NEWSPAPERS OF CLEVELAND
"Elmo touts his drug as being 51 times stronger than coke. If you’re looking for a tale of Brits behaving badly, watch Snatch again. It’s 51 times better than this."
-- Nick Rogers, STATE JOURNAL-REGISTER (SPRINGFIELD, IL)
"With jump cuts, fast editing and lots of pyrotechnics, Yu clearly hopes to camouflage how bad his movie is. He fails."
-- Steve Rhodes, STEVE RHODES' INTERNET REVIEWS
"Here's a British flick gleefully unconcerned with plausibility, yet just as determined to entertain you."
-- Nev Pierce, BBCI FILMS
"Formulaic to the 51st power, more like."
-- John Patterson, L.A. WEEKLY
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ROTTEN 20%
Avg. Rating: 4/10 |
"Amazingly dopey."
-- Michael Wilmington, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"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."
-- Susan Stark, DETROIT NEWS
"Director Yu seems far more interested in gross-out humor than in showing us well-thought stunts or a car chase that we haven't seen 10,000 times."
-- Jeff Stark, SALON.COM
"The problem with the mayhem in Formula 51 is not that it's offensive, but that it's boring."
-- A.O. Scott, NEW YORK TIMES
"Long before it's over, you'll be thinking of 51 ways to leave this loser."
-- Steven Rosen, DENVER POST
"This thing is just garbage."
-- Richard Roeper, EBERT & ROEPER
"What ensues are much blood-splattering, mass drug-induced bowel evacuations, and none-too-funny commentary on the cultural distinctions between Americans and Brits."
-- Steven Rea, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
"Jackson shamefully strolls through this mess with a smug grin, inexplicably wearing a kilt and carrying a bag of golf clubs over one shoulder."
-- Bill Muller, ARIZONA REPUBLIC
"Formula 51 promises a new kind of high but delivers the same old bad trip."
-- John Monaghan, DETROIT FREE PRESS
"Arguably the year's silliest and most incoherent movie."
-- Lou Lumenick, NEW YORK POST
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"The most anti-human big studio picture since 3000 Miles to Graceland."
-- Mark Palermo, COAST (HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA)
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* Certain "Formula 51" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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