Formula 51 Critic Reviews

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.Read the full review

It is possible, however improbable, that a "bad" movie can still be highly enjoyable. Formula 51 is such a film.Read the full review

Anything goes, though director Ronny Yu keeps the idiocy on a fast pace.Read the full review

The film should have been called ''Lock, Stock and Two Wilting Barrels.''Read the full review

Too often, Formula 51 fails to differentiate between gleeful excess and white noise.Read the full review

A fourth-rate "Pulp Fiction" with accents you can't understand.Read the full review

It isn't simple bad taste that Formula 51 deals in, but a total vacuum of feeling.Read the full review

There's an appalling amount of talent at waste up on the screen, starting with Jackson and Carlyle whose tall/short, silent/motormouth double act never clicks.Read the full review

A witless, gruesome barrage of jokey violence and lame trans-Atlantic humor, kept moving by the pointless, derivative kineticism of Mr. Yu's hyperactive cuts and splices.Read the full review