Sunday, May 2, 2010

Formula 51

On the day he graduates from college with a degree in pharmacology, Elmo McElroy (Samuel L. Jackson) gets busted for smoking a celebratory joint and ends up in prison. He serves his time and gets out with a plan for a new designer drug that’s 51 times more powerful than cocaine, ecstasy and pot combined. Ha also has a plan for using his formula to swindle the local drug lord (Meatloaf) and make enough money to never have to work again. When the plan goes horribly wrong, Elmo joins forces with a Liverpool hood (Robert Carlyle) and his sexy assassin ex-girlfriend (Emily Mortimer) to keep the mob from smokin’ his ass. Directed by Ronny Yu (Bride of Chucky) the action is top-notch, but it's the comic chemistry between the three stars that makes the film so much damn fun to watch.

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