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| BREAKIN' ALL THE RULES (2003)
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ReviewScore: 44 out of 100
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by Lew Irwin
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 Going up against Troy this weekend is the low-budget Breakin' All the Rules, starring Jamie Foxx has gotten some encouraging, but mixed reviews. Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times gives the film three stars (he gave Troy two) and concludes that it "is 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." While Marc Caro of the Chicago Tribune writes: "The best screwball comedies seem to breathe helium, but this one never gets airborne." Bob Townsend of the Atlanta Journal Constitution chimes in with - : "Breakin' All the Rules is a funny movie. Ha-ha funny sometimes, but more frequently amusing in a good-natured, make-you-smile way." While Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly says - "The rules of good screenwriting are mostly broken, though Jamie Foxx's smash-and-grab charisma remains intact." Elizabeth Weitzman comments in the New York Daily News: "You won't remember much in the morning, but it's an easy way to pass the time until something better comes along." Foxx is receiving particularly good notices. Stephen Holden in the New York Times says that "the actor's 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." Karen Heller comments in the Philadelphia Inquirer: "The cast, headed by the divine Jamie Foxx, is better than the material." Likewise Glenn Whipp comments in the Los Angeles Daily News: "Foxx's likable presence and the natural chemistry he has with co-star Gabrielle Union save the film from being completely unwatchable, but earnest fans of the actors are likely to be the only ones mildly satisfied by this tepid comic offering." |
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