bjarias Everyone gets screwed in this lackluster movie.. the lead actor.. the ex-boyfriend.. the husband.. an unborn child.. and ultimately, everyone viewing this tepid piece of whatever. Starts off, she has lots of free time on her hands, and she's bored. Subsequently she unexpectedly runs into an ex (that she had abruptly walked out on), and not batting an eyelash, starts up and continues a months long affair with him. And we're all left clueless what was so wrong with the seemingly very good-guy hubby. Then we have to guess her hormones subside, guilt takes over.. whatever, and she decides to dump the repeat lover (again), heads back to the arms of the totally clueless spouse... supposedly to live happily ever after. Of course, she never utters a word to him about her infidelity, and that the kid might not have been his. Yea.. she's a real sweetheart-keeper this one is. (Her pix on bing more exemplify the real Abby.) And seriously, could anyone possibly believe after being unceremoniously kicked to the curb.. now twice, that he's not going to hastily revenge out-her. Now that's the way it rightfully should have ended for her.. she deserves to have to crawl back for a third try.

sy-968-728030 The one star vote is being too generous.Between the excess hipster lifestyle represented in Silver Lake to the worst casting and plot in the history of movie-making - this film is the epitome of S * & T!I would have liked to end my review on this crap at the previous paragraph but IMDb won't let me. We have to have 10 lines - but because I hate hate this film so much it's so very important to me that it is heard... Jamie Pressly is so annoying - she really needs to just stick to her stereotype roles. I'm sorry - she just is not meant for drama. Her nose won't let her.Robin Thicke - no words - except - just STOP & that hair-do!!!I want to cry because it's really THAT BAD...

Dan P First, this movie is way too short and ends too abruptly. Shouldn't all movies follow the "hour and a half" rule of thumb? Not this movie.Second, the actors hardly seemed engaged. As a matter of fact, Robin Thick, certainly not an actor, upstaged all these "Golden Globe Nominated" professional actors.Third, there are a few things I still don't understand. What was the purpose of including the friend, mother, and repair man? Why did Abby have to be a chef? Where was the real conflict? Although it was fun to watch, why did Jaime Pressly get naked?Honestly, I would rather cut off my fingers like Abby than watch this movie again.

MartinHafer Making the Rules is a film about a chef, Abby (Jaime Pressly), who is seriously injured on the job. And, until her hand had healed, she's unable to go back to work. Instead of working, she stays home and forces herself to relax—which is not easy due to her rather intense personality. Soon, she gets bored and decides to start seeing an old boyfriend—which is a problem since she is already married! It gets worse when she sleeps with this boyfriend and soon finds herself pregnant—and she isn't sure whose child it is. Her motivation to do this is very vague, as her husband seems like a pretty nice guy and he puts up with Abby's snippiness. Her frequent ambivalence towards both of them just baffled me—as she soon tired of the boyfriend. She is a woman who has no idea what she wants in life nor does she have any sort of moral compass. She simply acts on her feelings.I had a SERIOUS problem with the plot of this movie as I watched it. I didn't care for the main character at all and this is an insurmountable hurdle for most films. With some types of movies (such as a western or war film or film about Hitler) you are expected to hate some of the characters, but with a modern slice of life film like this one, this is very tough—and almost impossible when the person is the leading character. To me, Abby came off as occasionally nasty, very self- absorbed, rather tense and unlikable. Add to that a nice dose of adultery, and you have a film that is very hard to like. So, while Abby's very, very pretty outside, she's very ugly within and not a person you can admire or relate to—at least for the average person. This just makes me wonder why they wrote this sort of a film in the first place. Did this seem normal in the least to anyone making the film? The film is a lot like a rom-com with neither the romance nor the comedy nor the likable lady. It didn't help that the film also was rather slow and low energy.So is there anything I liked about the film? Not a whole lot. The acting was generally good but the pacing and story just left me very cold. And, there are simply a lot of wonderful cooking movies out there that I would recommend instead, such as Mostly Martha or The Big Night. Each of these films featured characters who were flawed but ultimately quite likable.