American McElroy comes to Britain to off load a formula for the ultimate designer drug, but his attempts to set up a deal don't go quite to plan and before long he's legging it around Liverpool with dodgy small-time gangster Felix as his tour guide. 51st State is a gangster, action comedy with Jackson running through his predictable but enjoyable cooler than a Swedish winter routine, other than that though this is a whee stinker, poorly scripted, cliché ridden and with characterisation that gives new emphasise to the word ‘slim'…..it is pacey though.