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06/05/04
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
While bland and generic, the title certainly is fitting.
05/14/04
The movie doesn't leave an endearing impression of romance.
05/13/04
A funny movie. Ha-ha funny sometimes, but more frequently amusing in a good-natured, make-you-smile way.
05/13/04
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05/22/04
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05/13/04
As date-night piffle goes ... it's thoroughly engaging.
05/14/04
Despite what the title suggests, it's the good old-fashioned virtues that make Breakin' All the Rules better than most romantic comedies.
05/14/04
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05/22/04
With a little more polish, Daniel Taplitz’s quick-witted romantic comedy might have lived happily ever after.
05/27/04
It's all incredibly routine fare, borrowing as much from the old Doris Day and Rock Hudson comedies as from their numerous knockoffs.
05/14/04
The movie depends for its success on the likability of Jamie Foxx, Morris Chestnut and Gabrielle Union, and because they're funny and pleasant, we enjoy the ride even though the destination is preordained.
05/14/04
Top CriticThe best screwball comedies seem to breathe helium, but this one never gets airborne.
05/13/04
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05/26/06
A black-cast romantic comedy that derives its humor from character and plot development rather than from cliched notions of race-based uproariousness...
05/17/04
The results are at once unfathomably complex and staggeringly uninteresting.
05/12/04
It follows all the rules of comedic plot convention, with only an occasional ripple of surprise.
05/13/04
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05/14/04
It's a disturbingly conventional and painfully cliched bore that doesn't violate any existing cinematic rules, except maybe that romantic comedies are supposed to be funny.
05/14/04
In romantic comedy, it's all about the chemistry. Jamie Foxx and Gabrielle Union have just enough to make Breakin' All the Rules worth seeing.
05/14/04
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