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05/22/04
Breakin' All the Rules (2004)
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Reviews Counted:85
Fresh:28
Rotten:57
Average Rating:4.8/10
Consensus: This formulaic screwball comedy is weighed down by a contrived, overly complicated plot.
Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Things are looking bleak for Quincy Watson (Jamie Foxx, ANY GIVEN SUNDAY and BOOTY CALL). His company is firing people left and right and his heartless fiancée Helen (Bianca Lawson) has just taken... [More]
Starring: Jamie Foxx, Morris Chestnut, Gabrielle Union, Jennifer Esposito
Director: Daniel Taplitz
Reviews for Breakin' All the Rules
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07/21/05
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05/14/04
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05/13/04
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05/26/06
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06/05/04
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12/19/04
While Foxx and Union carry the proceedings with humor and charm to burn, the lightweight script isn't quite clever enough to untangle their web without resorting to middlebrow obviousness.
05/13/04
Laden with misunderstandings, contrived situations, and terrible characterizations. Even Foxx's charisma can't save this one.
05/17/04
A movie that sags and drags under the weight of poor pacing, execrable writing and largely unlikable characters, including a leading man viewers can never really warm up to.
05/14/04
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06/05/04
Writer and director Daniel Taplitz piles on the convolutions in an overripe comedy of sitcom stock characters and bad jokes.
05/14/04
The strain of sustaining its thin premise exhausts the film well before the final credits.
05/13/04
The film's failure to adhere to one of the most important rules of humor -- never give extensive screen time to someone who is not the slightest bit funny -- prevents it from being a completely enjoyable, if silly, romp.
05/13/04
As lovers who lie to one another as a kind of mating ritual, Union and Foxx do about as well as possible.
05/13/04
It’s a safe, dull, tired comedy that you’ll think you’ve already seen even as you’re watching it for the first time.
05/14/04
How is Breakin' All the Rules different from all the countless other romantic comedies specializing in misunderstandings and mistaken identities? It isn't.
05/15/04
Spike Lee would have none of this nonsense.
05/07/04
Packed with enough muddles and mixups to stock a French farce (or a middling UPN sitcom), Rules coasts amiably on without striking any real sparks.
05/14/04
You wouldn't think a movie with this much plot could be this dull, but you'd be wrong.
05/15/04
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