Bending All the Rules (2002)

It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

I rented this "on demand" and my wife and i thought it was a joke... a parody. It's actually sad, the sound is like a tin cup (I actually tried to adjust my sound at first), the acting is comical - it's so bad it's like nothing I've ever seen on film or TV, even shows on local cable channels. The plot is non-existent, confusing and unbelievable (if you can even figure out WTF is going on). The lighting is bad, the transitions are bad and there's probably more things screwed up but I'm not a film maker. There's a nightclub scene that has like 10 extras instead of the 40 they needed and is a joke. It's so low budget, I feel like someone picked my pocket... and for those that gave this a positive review, $%&^ you - you are part of the problem, this can't possibly be confused for anything but low budget crap.

This movie S U X. Big time. If aliens encountered this move in space, they would certainly come conquer our planet knowing how inferior we were. I can't believe I wasted 10 minutes of my life. I lost valuable IQ points in the process of watching this film. I am not a fan of Bradley Cooper anymore. Wow, I should take up acting. If he can make it big from being in this movie, I can do the same. What an awful excuse for a move. Seriously this move is bad. I have to write 10 lines about how bad this movie is. It's soooo bad. Do not waste your time. This movie should be erased from history. Please do yourself a favor and don't watch this move.

First of all, I wish I could honestly give this movie a 0! I love movies and a wide range of them and not usually picky about them and I can usually watch the whole thing even if it isn't all that great; however, this movie was not the case! For the first time in my life, I HAD to turn this movie off after 20 minutes cause it was driving my boyfriend and I crazy! We decided  to get this movie after seeing it featured in the new releases on red box. My boyfriend and I both like Bradley Cooper after seeing the hangover 1&2 and limitless, so we thought it should be a good movie. Well, come to find out the movie is indeed not a new release, being first released in 2002. Turned out to be the absolute worst movie I have ever seen in my 24 years of life!!!!! My god!!! My boyfriend and I could not even make it past 20 minutes and we tried to get interested in it but it is just impossible! The acting is horrible by every single actor, even Bradley Cooper!! The little girl's acting was absolutely worst. It was as if they were all reading off of cue cards or something. The music was horrible, sounding like a bad porn movie! The acting was about equivalent to a bad porn as well. The audio and lighting are horrible! There's not one good aspect from this movie! After watching twenty minutes of it, we both were completely lost as to what was happening in the movie and could not take one more second of it! Please do not waste your precious time out of your life to watch this movie!!! It's horrible!!! I believe the makers of this movie released it on DVD to make some money after Bradley's recent success in newer movies! Bradley has sure come a long way from this film! Don't even waste your time! You will regret it!

We couldn't even make it through the first 15 minutes of this pile of sophomoric dung. I've seen better acting and more compelling story lines in bad porn. Don't let the crooks that released this on video get another dollar from you simply because it has Bradley Cooper in it eight years before he got lucky and was cast in Hangover. Bradley cooper is a stiff, unskilled, dope in this movie. His acting is pathetic and yet still better than the others in the movie. This is simply something someone found lost on the floor amidst a pile of bad Pauly Shore movies for the last 9 years. Their greed coaxed them into releasing it on video with the hopes of suckering in a bunch of people to unknowingly fork over a couple bucks to taint their DVD players with this festering pus-filled boil of shame. I was hoodwinked. I hope you read this review before you're hoodwinked too.