TV-trained writer-director Daniel Taplitz displays little imagination and almost no sense of comic timing.
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05/14/04
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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.
Theatrical Release:May 14, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $11,827,301
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
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Reviews for Breakin' All the Rules
True love draws blood, or so the film's awkward metaphor goes. Breakin' All the Rules leaves little more than a hickey.
05/13/04
Laden with misunderstandings, contrived situations, and terrible characterizations. Even Foxx's charisma can't save this one.
05/17/04
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
A humorous, light-on-its-feet film that's vaguely similar to 2003's Down With Love, with a modern, urban twist.
05/13/04
Driven by a talented cast blessed with quick-witted characters.
05/13/04
It isn't great by any stretch, but it could be just the escape for anyone hoping to avoid the big-budget blockbusters currently using up all the available oxygen.
05/14/04
As date-night piffle goes ... it's thoroughly engaging.
05/14/04
Top Critic...may be shamelessly superficial but it's still an entertaining comedy.
05/14/04
The best screwball comedies seem to breathe helium, but this one never gets airborne.
05/13/04
Top CriticThis is a romantic comedy with heart (broken and otherwise), and in the end, that's all that matters.
05/14/04
If the movie were 10 minutes longer, the mix-ups might grind viewers down, but director Daniel Taplitz knows how to juggle the subplots he's given.
05/14/04
Top CriticThe personable, good-looking cast helps things along somewhat but Daniel Taplitz’s script falls short of success.
05/14/04
Digresses into that hazy zone where we're not sure if we're watching overwrought drama or a joke that just isn't funny.
09/16/04
All the performers deserve better than this.
05/18/04
Foxx and friends are broken by this laughless comedy
05/16/04
The strain of sustaining its thin premise exhausts the film well before the final credits.
05/13/04
Top Criticsticks to the rules of too many lame sitcoms and unfunny comedies past, which the doomed actors follow like lemmings off a cliff
05/18/04
With a little more polish, Daniel Taplitz’s quick-witted romantic comedy might have lived happily ever after.
05/27/04
It actually plays everything so safe and predictable that it feels as recycled as some of the hand towels you find in restrooms.
05/13/04
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