Formula 51
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Movie Reviews of Formula 51
Movie Review: AWESOME MOVIE!!
Summary: 5 Stars
If you're a Pulp Fiction fan, then this movie will feel just like a continuation of that movie, especially since Samuel Jackson was a main character in both movies. And you probably have to love drugs and be interested in watching the process of drugs being made, transported, and sold in night clubs. This whole movie is basically one long drug deal that takes forever to finally complete, which is fine by me. I only wish the movie spent more time showing him having success in selling his new drug and living the high life. This is one of the only drug dealer movies I've ever seen that have a happy ending, where he succeeds in getting his money and starting a new life as a millionaire.
Being an amateur chemist myself (alchemist) who has been successful in manufacturing the real "Elixir of Life" that cures all disease and reverses the again process, I especially like the beginning of this movie, because it showed him making his large batch of drugs in a professional lab with a pill making machine producing hundreds of thousands of pills at once. I wish there was more of the chemistry scenes later in the movie, but even when he makes the drugs again after he gets to London, they don't show the process in any great detail.
Sort of a movie that makes you wish there was more to the movie, and you want it to last just a little longer, or maybe have similar movies made like it. I personally think there just aren't enough good drug dealer movies. ;-)
Movie Review: Brilliant like, innit!
Summary: 5 Stars
If this is edited for the USA then they really are missing a treat. The humour and interaction between Samuel and Robert, the quick dialogue exchanges, and the introduction to the english football mentality to a poor unsuspecting american, makes for great tv! Any liverpudlians reading the above reference to the Thames will be seething mind, as thats about 200miles (and several cultures) to the south of liverpool. Certainly there is an air of Tarantino to the film though, and the story shifts from place to place enough to make a second viewing useful, just to make sure you caught it all! Thats not a negative though, as once you've watched it, you'll want to see it again anyway!
The language too is impressively realistic! That is to say, coarse, as you'd expect from drug dealing gun toting mad men, but also funny, again Tarantino-esk. Its escapism, and frankly, i loved it!
Movie Review: Great, hilarious movie. Get the R2 instead.
Summary: 5 Stars
Samuel L Jackson is the man! And this is one imaginative and outrageous action comedy. Some hate it but they are obviously not watching it from the right angle. The features here on this R1 disc are pretty poor. The R2 version contains:Audio Commentary with screenwriter Stel Pavlou
'Making Of' Featurette
On-set video diary
Interview with screenwriter Stel Pavlou
Photo gallery
Trailer
Interactive menu
Scene access
Cast and Crew Interviews
Dolby Digital 5.1/DTS 5.1 audio
2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen
So if you are a fan then get this version. Don't listen to the bad press and bad reviews as The 51st State (Formula 51) is one whacky and action-packed movie that you'll love if you're in the right mood.
Movie Review: A Matter of Taste
Summary: 5 Stars
This will appeal the most to people that like the unusual gang movies like "Get Shorty", "The Usual Suspects", "Snatch", "Weekend at Bernies" and "Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels". It has a nice story twist at the end, great acting, good action, unusual dark comedy, and much more. I can't sit through two hours of just bloody gang movies, I can if they have some comedy. This one definitely has a nice comedy touch with a good ending. The irony is when a pharmacist is busted for smoking marijuana right after he graduates college and it ruins his chance to go legitimate, he takes the pharmaceutical version of illegal drugs to a new level. A must see for people that enjoy the movies I mentioned before.Movie Review: I love this movie!
Summary: 5 Stars
I'll skip the plot summary, and I won't pretend to be a film critic. I'm just a regular guy, and I love this movie. Set in Liverpool, England, some of us "Yanks" might not get all of the humor. Having been to England, I got most of it. It's funny, has some good action, and the story is pretty good. Robert Carlisle is one of the best under-recognized actors in entertainment today. Sam Jackson, in a kilt...who woulda thunk it? The whole cast seems to have pretty good chemistry. If you have a couple of hours, and you're looking for a pretty good flick to pop in, get this one.