Breakin' All The Rules Critic Reviews

Not a comic masterpiece, but it's entertaining and efficient, and provides a showcase for its stars. It's on the level of a good sitcom.Read the full review

Has something many movies don't these days: interesting and attractive people talking to each other. Read the full review

Designed to be a date movie, Rules could have stronger male appeal than many comedies of its ilk.Read the full review

Manages to amuse as a cleverly concocted hybrid of conventional romantic comedy and mistaken-identity farce.Read the full review

The rules of good screenwriting are mostly broken, though Jamie Foxx's smash-and-grab charisma remains intact.Read the full review

The hard-sell comic delivery one expects from contemporary date movies is pleasantly tempered here. Read the full review

The actor's (Jamie Foxx) deft touch lends the flighty story of mistaken identities and romantic mix-ups among mostly African-American characters in Los Angeles the kind of saucy bounce that Cary Grant lent to similar roles six decades ago. Read the full review

Jamie Foxx finds his funny bone is firmly intact in the effervescent, urban-flavored romantic comedy Breakin' all the Rules. Read the full review

Written and directed by Daniel Taplitz, Breakin' has a hard time building up steam and an even harder time distinguishing itself from any number of UPN sitcoms.Read the full review