Disappointment for a huge fan!

It is so daring, it is so ambitious, it is so thrilling and weird and pointed and powerful. I never knew where it was going.

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Warren Beatty is and always will be a futurist in the film industry, only on par with Stanley Kubrick, David Lean, in his ideas and performance. This picture is atypical of many of his biopics including Bonnie and Clyde, Bulworth, Bugsy and Shampoo. What is common with all of them is the sense of humor Beatty brings to the project. It is in that light that you must watch this movie, Beatty's take on Howard Hughes, that era in Hollywood, and the mores of the time. Annette Benning, one of Hollywoods most terrific actresses, is not seen nearly enough in this movie. Ms Benning always gives a fantastic performance especially in my favorites American Beauty, and Being Julia. Lily Collins is actually pretty good in this picture. Former pictures featuring Lily was Mortal Instruments, a movie based on best seller by Cassandra Claire. Her performance in the Disney film Mirror Mirror was just typical of most of the young actresses who have worked for Disney. Rules Don't Apply features new talent along with seasoned actors a great mix, which is quite successful here. This movie will be one to watch more than once to capture the brilliance of prose and innuendo.

I have so much to say about this gem that I'm not sure where to start from. Let me just say that as soon as I heard Gutav Mahler's Adagietto coming out of the Hollywood Bowl while the young virginal couple sit in the car facing the moon, I was transported to Venice, the Venice of Luchino Visconti in Death in Venice. Throughout the film Mahler's Adagietto kept magically coming back so, for me, that's the film. Art and commerce, too much and too little, life and death. Warren Beatty, writer, director, producer also stars as Howard Hughes, a character who's lived in Warren Beatty's mind for decades. He moved me. It was clear why Hughes was a character that could allow Beatty to talk about very personal things without having to do it in first person. - Mia Farrow told Michael Caine between takes in Hannah And Her Sisters: "Woody is telling me things through you" - Here Warren Beatty is telling us things about him through Howard Hughes. A mass of contradictions that can only be explained in the heart and mind of an artist. I'm already a huge fan of Alden Ehrenreich right from Tetro and here he is wonderful, tender and real. Lily Collins is new to me but Annette Bening, well Annette Bening reminded me in her few minutes on the screen that she is one of the greatest actresses we've got. Death in Venice and the last image of Howard Hughes left me with a knot in my throat. I will certainly see it again, just as sure that Rules Don't Apply will be rediscovered in years to come.

Do you remember that old friend or relation who said just the right things and You didn't know it 'til years later? They never won an Oscar nor even appeared on screen, but their influence helped You. I suspect this Motion Picture was a gift of that type. It's the little keepsake, like a windup music box or whatever would be new and exotic today, and they've left it behind for you to keep. And some day, some of us would treasure it. The intricate design will catch your eye -- one day or night, after a lot more of the river has flowed by. The great sweep of time will echo in the piano-box of the heart . . . and will anyone remember to hear it? For some persons who love the music, this film would be a catalyst, a prompt, for that reverie. The subtle feelings of life will now be more understandable. You'll know you were in the presence of God's love -- a true God who shines through time and fiction as well as through science and contracts. It's profound and it's pretty easy to watch, or vice versa. Is it historically? Sorry, I don't know. I could look it up. That doesn't change anything about this review. The formula for a big hit in the movies is elusive or is it? Maybe they were trying for a hit, and maybe they were trying for something else

Rules Don't Apply, written, directed, starring and probably catered by Warren Beatty, is an odd mix of actual events focused on Howard Hughes (played by Beatty) and his various business dealings, and a cast of fictional characters that surround him. Real-life elements include his diminishing mental capacity, the Spruce Goose, his financial problems and more. The fictional elements involve a contract actress (Lily Collins – Phil's daughter) her driver (Alden Ehrenreich), and his boss (Matthew Broderick.)The cast is uniformly excellent and in many cases, wasted. The movie has more cameos – some lasting less than a minute – than any movie in recent memory, and features Paul Sorvino, Candice Bergen, Ed Harris, Amy Madigan, Oliver Platt, Alec Baldwin, Dabney Coleman, Steve Coogan and many, many more. On the other hand, the movie does a better job of faithfully recreating the late-50s and early-60s than any movie I've seen.If Howard Hughes, the time period, topic or cast interest you, wait for the DVD. Otherwise, skip this one.