Chicago Sun-Times: Formula 51 - - Roger Ebert's review: "...not a comedy so much as a farce, grabbing desperately for funny details wherever possible." (October 18, 2002)

Drugs, Guns, Car Chases and a Chemist in a Kilt - - A.O. Scott's review: "...the problem with the mayhem in "Formula 51" is not that it's offensive, but that it's boring." [New York Times] (October 18, 2002)

'Formula' Yields a Toxic Brew of Borrowings - - Marc Mohan's review: "...attempting to perform cinematic alchemy by combining parts of earlier films into this one." [Portland Oregonian] (October 18, 2002)

Jackson the Best Ingredient in Crude 'Formula 51' - - Review by William Arnold: "...never quite jams into gear, and the script's overload of gross humor never finds the proper vein to rise above the distasteful." [Seattle Post-Intelligencer] (October 18, 2002)