Cast
and Credits
Ronny Yu (Director)
Samuel L. Jackson (Elmo McElroy)
Robert Carlyle (Felix DeSouza)
Emily Mortimer (Dakota Phillips)
Meatloaf Aday (The Lizard)
Rhys Ifans (Ike)
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Samuel L. Jackson has this habit of playing bad asses.
Call it a stereotype, if you will, be he's just so good as it.
In both "Pulp Fiction" and "Jackie Brown",
Jackson created two of the most notorious lowlifes to ever
grace the silver screen. In "Formula 51", he
goes for a weird hybrid between his character in "Jackie
Brown" and his character in "Shaft". The
result is the worst Samuel L. Jackson film ever, and a
completely useless picture.
Jackson stars as Elmo McElroy, the most brilliant manufacturer
of illegal drugs in the known world. He has created a
new drug called 'formula 51', which is supposedly 51 times
stronger than crack or heroine. After pissing off drug lord
Meatloaf Aday, he flies overseas, hooks up with Robert Carlyle
and tries to find a buyer for his precious death chemical.
What a positive and reaffirming storyline. Ain't nothing
like a near deadly drug to brighten the faces of all around.
Now, I know not all movies are suppose to contain positive
messages, but this film supports drug usage to a whole new
level.
There are so many aspects of this film that are just plain
'stupid', I hate narrowing down to the worst, but, here goes:
the movie closes with the words 'no one ever found out why he
wore a kilt', just to go on and explain why he wore one.
What kind of nonsense is that, and why the hell did Robert
Carlyle get mixed up in it, not to mention Sammy L..
This film was directed by Ronny Yu, who I believe directed the
awful "Bride of Chucky", unless I am mistaken about
that. The two add up to about the same level of
intelligence. AVOID THIS FLICK AT ALL COSTS AND FORGET
IT WAS EVER MADE. I know I certainly will.
-- Billy
Ray ( 0 out of 4 pops )
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Matt ( 2 out of 4
pops )
"Formula
51" is watchable and fairly entertaining, but altogether pretty
lame. It will probably fade from my memory in a week or so.
As a matter of fact, as I'm writing this, I can barely remember a few
details from the film. Watching the previews, you probably assume
this is an action-packed crime caper. Well, there's not too much
action. However, the film is heavy on dialogue, which contains enough
profanity to make Quentin Tarantino squirm. That's right, so do
not take grandma to see this flick. I've seen tons of R-rated
movies with tons of profanity, but I can tell you this movie went over
the top. In movies like "Reservoir Dogs" and
"Pulp Fiction," the dialogue is peppered by profanity.
In this movie, the dialogue IS profanity! Plus, since the cast is
predominantly English, it's hard to decipher most of the dialogue (other
than the "f" words) through the cockney accents. In a
good English movie, I would make an effort to decipher the dialogue, but
in a film like this, it's pretty clear that even if I were to decipher
it, I wouldn't hear anything special. Samuel L. Jackson manages to
keep his cool, but when does he not? He could play the Easter
Bunny and keep his cool. About the only significant element of the
movie is the presence of Sam Jackson in a kilt. And if you've seen
the previews, you've already had the pleasure. The plot involves
drug-dealing, deception and greed (each person wants a cut of the
earnings, and each are willing to kill to receive a bigger cut).
Nothing that hasn't been done before. "F 51" is far from
disastrous, but there are much better films out there.
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