Jamie Foxx helms a warm-hearted comedy. It's entirely predictable, but it's a humorous good time.
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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
Foxx and an appealing ensemble ... plus a nice, light touch with the material by writer-director Daniel Taplitz, make for a generally pleasant diversion.
05/14/04
Top CriticIt’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
While bland and generic, the title certainly is fitting.
05/14/04
A sadly ordinary bit of fluff, a romantic comedy that aims to be wacky and charming and winds up being neither.
05/14/04
...may be shamelessly superficial but it's still an entertaining comedy.
05/14/04
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
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
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
Jamie Foxx floats gracefully through this screwball sex comedy with a cocked eyebrow and the playful smirk of an overgrown adolescent.
05/13/04
Top CriticThe strain of sustaining its thin premise exhausts the film well before the final credits.
05/13/04
The movie doesn't leave an endearing impression of romance.
05/13/04
Top CriticIt follows all the rules of comedic plot convention, with only an occasional ripple of surprise.
05/13/04
Top CriticAs lovers who lie to one another as a kind of mating ritual, Union and Foxx do about as well as possible.
05/13/04
Breakin' All The Rules has moments when it is very good, but it doesn't maintain that high level throughout the movie.
05/13/04
Crudely embraces reverse ethnic stereotypes.
05/13/04
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
Breakin' has tons of quippy dialogue, not all of it sterling. But it comes at us so quickly, and from such likable actors in such pretty rooms, in such spiffy shirts ... we can't help but like it.
05/13/04
The laughs are supposed to come from the mix-ups ... but this stuff is so attenuated and idiotic, it makes even less sense than is the norm for such flyweight workouts.
05/13/04
Top CriticThe 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
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