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Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Formula 51 is 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 more
John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: Formula 51 promises a new kind of high but delivers the same old bad trip. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: Formula 51 is so trite that even Yu's high-energy action stylings can't break through the stupor. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: This thing is just garbage. Read more
Susan Stark, Detroit News: The fun of the movie is the chance it affords to watch Jackson, who also served as executive producer, take his smooth, shrewd, powerful act abroad. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: Amazingly dopey. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: The problem with the mayhem in Formula 51 is not that it's offensive, but that it's boring. Read more
Ted Fry, Seattle Times: After all the gunplay, explosions, foul-mouthed witticisms, and bloody carnage that fuel this amusingly forgettable trifle, Formula 51 is fundamentally about Samuel L. Jackson in a kilt. Read more
Manohla Dargis, Los Angeles Times: An execrable mess that leaves no genre cliche unturned or human body or soul untrammeled. Read more
Steven Rosen, Denver Post: Long before it's over, you'll be thinking of 51 ways to leave this loser. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: The film should have been called Lock, Stock and Two Wilting Barrels. Read more
Ray Conlogue, Globe and Mail: A formula flick. Read more
Gary Dowell, Dallas Morning News: A dead-on-arrival attempt at a crime comedy that tries to hide its skeletal script under half-baked action set pieces, lame jokes and potty humor. Read more
John Patterson, L.A. Weekly: Formulaic to the 51st power, more like. Read more
John Anderson, Newsday: Formula isn't about anything but being aggressively cinematic, something Yu is very good at while leaving plot, character and structural soundness to others so inclined. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Formula 51 isn't a rousing success, but its sheer outrageousness is infectious, and, for those willing to get into the experience, it is capable of delivering. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: A fourth-rate Pulp Fiction. Read more
Jeff Stark, Salon.com: Director Yu seems far more interested in gross-out humor than in showing us well-thought stunts or a car chase that we haven't seen 10,000 times. Read more
Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle: It isn't simple bad taste that Formula 51 deals in, but a total vacuum of feeling. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: None of this makes a lick of sense, and the appalling unfunny story goes from bad to worse. Read more
Justine Elias, Village Voice: Dull-witted caper. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: Ridiculous, dispiriting and ... coarse. Read more