It's easy to critique 'Formula 51' and personify the comic book guy from the 'Simpsons'. "Worst Tarantino remake ever!"... DON'T This is not a typical Spin-Off of crime/comedy films of recent such as 'Who Is Cletis Tout' & 'Get Shorty'. Realistically, Tarantino is primarily a Spin-Doctor himself, brother mixes a mean party.
Pampered with Brittish Ghetto humor, 'Formula 51' is better titled 'An American Drug Dealer in Liverpool'. Samuel L. resumes his Bad MoFo persona, this time as a Pharmacist gone underground. He has developed a powerfully suggestive drug known as POS 51, more powerful than any drug on the market. After betraying The Lizard (Meat Loaf in a very tolerable role as a sleezy druglord) he ends up in Liverpool and situations just get worse from there. It seems every time Jackson get's close to sealing the deal, sh@t hits the fan (sometimes literally). Together with local hoodlum/tourguide Carlyle, they find themselves escaping assasin's bullets, crooked police and even worse the rival soccer team. With a cute love story amongst theives in the middle 'F 51' delivers a well humored, action ladden movie worth renting.
Bottom Line: Fans of the genre without ego-hatred for spin-offs will delight in this well constructed action/comedy. All other comic book store employees will continue to munch on their junk-food blabering that they could of done it better.
Pampered with Brittish Ghetto humor, 'Formula 51' is better titled 'An American Drug Dealer in Liverpool'. Samuel L. resumes his Bad MoFo persona, this time as a Pharmacist gone underground. He has developed a powerfully suggestive drug known as POS 51, more powerful than any drug on the market. After betraying The Lizard (Meat Loaf in a very tolerable role as a sleezy druglord) he ends up in Liverpool and situations just get worse from there. It seems every time Jackson get's close to sealing the deal, sh@t hits the fan (sometimes literally). Together with local hoodlum/tourguide Carlyle, they find themselves escaping assasin's bullets, crooked police and even worse the rival soccer team. With a cute love story amongst theives in the middle 'F 51' delivers a well humored, action ladden movie worth renting.
Bottom Line: Fans of the genre without ego-hatred for spin-offs will delight in this well constructed action/comedy. All other comic book store employees will continue to munch on their junk-food blabering that they could of done it better.