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Dans ce business, la seule règle, c’est qu’il n’y en a aucune.
Elmo McElroy est vraiment un individu à part. Chimiste génial, il a mis au point le POS 51, LA drogue parfaite, celle qui vous donne l'impression que Dieu lui-même est venu vous faire signe. Bien décidé à commercialiser son petit chef-d'oeuvre sans intermédiaire, Elmo se débarasse de son encombrant patron, Le Lézard, pour rallier l'Angleterre - le 51e Etat - et s'associe avec Félix Desouza, un petit nerveux qui règne sur l'underground de Liverpool, parle tout le temps et ne supporte pas ce qui est Américain.Ce qu'ignore Elmo c'est que son ex-patron est toujours vivant, déterminé à se venger et à mettre la main sur la formule chimique. Et en plus il n'est pas le seul : la superbe et dangereuse Dakota Phillips est également sur ses traces.
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This is actually titled "Formula 51". It's original title was what it's listed as but I don't think it was ever called this after release.
Bearing a wealth of guns, drugs, quirky characters and fiery chase scenes, this desperately wants to be a cool, slick, suave black comedy in the same vein as Pulp Fiction or Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. With none of the panache, authenticity, or cornerstone performances that made its forefathers into modern classics, though, it comes off as a weak, uncertain impersonation instead. The plot plays it loose and loopy, with characters losing sight of their own motivations between set changes, and becomes especially double-cross happy as the credits near. Samuel L. Jackson plays the only part of note, as nothing more than his standard blue-lipped hardass, while Emily Mortimer is thoroughly unconvincing as a cold-blooded killer and Meat Loaf occupies the bizarre role of a drug-dealing Macguffin who constantly speaks in the third-person. Forgettable, shallow and bland.
Jackson's continued fetish with reptiles has left his career in the dumps.