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The 51st State
2001 1h 33m R
Thriller
,
Action
,
and more
6.3
25%
59%
61%
Play
An American master chemist plans to score big on a once in a lifetime drug deal. All does not go as planned and he is soon entangled in a web of deceit.
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Directed By
Ronny Yu
Written By
Stel Pavlou
Studio
The Film Consortium
,
Alliance Atlantis
,
and more
Cast of The 51st State
Samuel L. Jackson
Elmo McElroy
Robert Carlyle
Felix DeSouza
Emily Mortimer
Dakota Parker
Meat Loaf
The Lizard
Rhys Ifans
Iki
Sean Pertwee
Detective Virgil Kane
Ricky Tomlinson
Leopold Durant
Michael Starke
Arthur
Anna Keaveney
Shirley DeSouza
Paul Barber
Frederick
Stephen Walters
Blowfish
Nigel Whitmey
L.A. Highway Patrol
Mac McDonald
Mr. Davidson
Michael J. Reynolds
Mr. Escobar
Junix Inocian
Mr. Ho-Fat
Jake Abraham
Konokko
Aaron Swartz
Mr. Yuri
David Webber
Mr. Jones
Nick Bartlett
Trevor
Angus MacInnes
Pudsey Smith
Robert Fyfe
Hector Dougal McElroy
Robert Jezek
Priest
Joan Campion
Hotel Maid
Terry O'Neill
Deckhand
Marc Anwar
Pharmacist
Paul Broughton
Anfield Commissionaire
Sonny Muslim
Boy in Plane
Barbara Barnes
Boy's Mother
Christopher Hunter
Lawrence
James Roach
Grimtooth
Ade
Omar
The 51st State Reviews
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
Ridiculous, dispiriting and ... coarse.
Detroit Free Press
John Monaghan
Formula 51 promises a new kind of high but delivers the same old bad trip.
Village Voice
Justine Elias
Dull-witted caper.
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
This thing is just garbage.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Stars Samuel L. Jackson in the worst role of his career.
Common Sense Media
Nell Minow
Missing: plot, dialogue, characters.
Seattle Times
Ted Fry
After all the gunplay, explosions, foul-mouthed witticisms, and bloody carnage that fuel this amusingly forgettable trifle, Formula 51 is fundamentally about Samuel L. Jackson in a kilt.
Salon.com
Jeff Stark
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.
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
It isn't simple bad taste that Formula 51 deals in, but a total vacuum of feeling.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
What ensues are much blood-splattering, mass drug-induced bowel evacuations, and none-too-funny commentary on the cultural distinctions between Americans and Brits.
Denver Post
Steven Rosen
Long before it's over, you'll be thinking of 51 ways to leave this loser.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Scott Von Doviak
Excessive, profane, packed with cartoonish violence and comic-strip characters.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
A fourth-rate Pulp Fiction.
Arizona Republic
Bill Muller
Jackson shamefully strolls through this mess with a smug grin, inexplicably wearing a kilt and carrying a bag of golf clubs over one shoulder.
Detroit News
Susan Stark
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.
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
Formula 51 is so trite that even Yu's high-energy action stylings can't break through the stupor.
Orlando Sentinel
Roger Moore
It's no sin to try too hard. But in Formula 51, the effort shows. And in breezy, bloody, offhand action comedies, that's a cardinal sin.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
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.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Arguably the year's silliest and most incoherent movie.
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