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Russell Crowe, actor, producer, director—“Gladiator,” “Unhinged,” “The Water Diviner,” “State of Play,” Gladiator,” “A Beautiful Mind,” “Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World” • Faith: Secularism • Worldview: Liberalism (activist)
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Formula 51

MPA Rating: R-Rating (MPA)

for strong violence, language, drug content and some sexuality.

Moral Rating:	not reviewed
Moviemaking Quality:
Primary Audience:	Adults
Genre:	Action/Crime
Length:	1 hr. 32 min.
Year of Release:	2002
USA Release:

Featuring	Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Carlyle, Emily Mortimer, Rhys Ifans, Meat Loaf
Director	Ronny Yu
Producer	Andras Hamori, Seaton McLean, David Pupkewitz, Malcolm Kohll
Distributor	Columbia Pictures, a division of Sony Pictures

Negative

Negative—Typical R-rated movie starring Samuel L. Jackson. There were references to homosexuality, the car chase scene where every chasing car gets destroyed but Sam’s, a sex scene, multiple instances of profanity, and graphic violence (shootings, beatings, and a bodily explosion). There were even scenes of urination and excrement. In this movie, like “Pulp Fiction,” everyone is a bad guy—there are just various shades of bad. Jackson’s character is, of course, smarter than everyone else.

The morality statement throughout the movie is that drugs are bad but the foolish will use them anyway. Thus, it is okay to profit off of the manufacture and sale of drugs to these foolish people. Although a typical movie of this type, I give it a negative rating due to fact that it doesn’t really entertain the viewer.
My Ratings: [Very Offensive / 3]

Eric, age 37

Movie Critics

…at least 163 f-words…

ScreenIt!

…Everything is generic… scenes of urination, with a lot of excrement tossed in…

Ed Blank, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

…not for the squeamish… features the traditional high-body-count set pieces [including a] blood-spurting burst of morbid choreography…

Margaret A. McGurk, The Cincinnati Enquirer

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