Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
positive
4(14%)
mixed
5(17%)
negative
20(69%)
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75
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.
75
It is possible, however improbable, that a "bad" movie can still be highly enjoyable. Formula 51 is such a film.
70
Sure it’s brainless fun, but Formula 51 is a trip well worth taking.
63
A formula flick. And the formula is not 51 times more entertaining than usual. Maybe 1.5, at best.
50
Outrageously confident and wearing a kilt through the mayhem, Jackson proves once again that he has few equals in bringing off a broad, over-the-top lead.
50
Anything goes, though director Ronny Yu keeps the idiocy on a fast pace.
50
A messy fish-out-of-water gangland romp.
50
The film should have been called ''Lock, Stock and Two Wilting Barrels.''
40
Cocky, vulgar and very noisy picture.
38
It's a movie that puts Samuel Jackson in kilts, Robert Carlyle in a red Jaguar, and the audience -- if they have any sense at all -- out in the lobby, looking for another picture.
