It's an English movie, with a Hong Kong director, starring Samuel L. Jackson in a kilt. That alone is a surefire formula for just plain fun at the movies.

| Original Score: B | Jan 4, 2018

Missing: plot, dialogue, characters.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 24, 2010

Overdirected, overacted, generally overwrought mess.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 2, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2008

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.

| Jul 2, 2008

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 30, 2006

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Tenta desesperadamente ser um novo Jogo, Trapaas e Dois Canos Fumegantes, mas perde o jogo, trapaceia o espectador e este quem entra pelo cano.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 26, 2004

...starts out well enough, with its quirky directorial touches and even quirkier storyline, but finally becomes just too overwhelming.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 1, 2003

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.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 27, 2003

Abnormal amounts of blood, bullets and wanton bodily functions could put the ill on some unsuspecting viewers.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 20, 2003

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10 | Feb 21, 2003

...Reeks of a studio trying to cut its losses and make a few bucks before the stiffer competition of Oscar season arrives.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 8, 2003

Excessive, profane, packed with cartoonish violence and comic-strip characters.

Full Review | Jan 2, 2003

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 8, 2002

Une trs, trs mauvaise copie du style Guy Ritchie.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Nov 12, 2002

Jackson is always watchable.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 5, 2002

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 30, 2002

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 28, 2002

Formula 51 has dulled your senses faster and deeper than any recreational drug on the market.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 27, 2002