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In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Reaaally tiring movie....In the first 20 minutes you're like "ok it seems interesting..don't know what's going on here but I guess we'll find out soon...." I would mainly describe this movie as a pain in the a$$. The only way someone would possibly appreciate this movie, is by seeing it under the perspective of Mr Hughes disorder... Other than that...the movie is so NOT worth-watching, no matter some of the household names that play in it.

I thought this was a find in red box IT Wasn't! THIS WILL BE THE LAST TIME I RENT anything FROM REDBOX. Redbox seems to only put in bad movies they really got me though with the name Howard Hughes and the retro charm yeah that's it t was corny to a T. stupid and ridiculous! i couldn't watch it past 20 minuets it was so corny everything about this movie was predictable. We can already tell what happens at the end. The main character in this movie obviously doesn't care about his job. Oh yes and it was stereotypical all people from the 1960's were not a cookie cutter same way women cant do this non sense if it were true none of us would be here. either someone told the story bad or they writers are really stupid.

Warren Beatty wrote, produced, directed, and starred in "Rules Don't Apply," a film about Howard Hughes released in 2016. The film also stars Lily Collins, Alden Ehrentreich, Annette Benning, Matthew Broderick, and Martin Sheen.Mainly what I got out of this film is that Warren Beatty, even at his age, has a nice singing voice. With training, he could have been quite good.Lily Collins plays Marla, a virginal non-drinking Christian who wins a contest and is brought to Hollywood by Howard Hughes for a screen test. Her driver is Frank Forbes (Ehrentreich), an ambitious young man who is hoping Hughes will go in with him on a land deal. Of course the Hughes employees are forbidden to date or romance the starlets. However, an attraction between the two does develop.I guess that was the plot, though for some reason one doesn't realize until the end it was supposed to be the main thrust of the film.In between that, we are treated to the Hughes eccentricities - not meeting the starlets right away, not giving them screen tests, and then once they are given them, not looking at them right away, his airplane flights and accidents, his refusal to meet the people giving him $400 million for TWA, his testimony before various committees, his constant viewing of his film Hell's Angels, his refusal at first to call a television network to prove he was sane after a book claiming he wasn't was published, his daddy fixation, his fear of being committed, his move to Vegas, his move to Nicaragua, his move to Acapulco, his love of banana nut ice cream, and his marriage to Jean Peters which in this film is because she won't have him committed.The film appears to have played with time. It seems to me that his airline debacles and one especially horrible accident took place before the time of the film, and the story featuring Hughes and Marla is fictional, as I believe is the book by an author who insisted he met Hughes and found him insane. There are many books about Hughes, including the fake one by Clifford Irving - perhaps this is the one referred to with Irving's name changed. Also, the TWA incident was later than the time period of most of the movie.What's good - well, the period atmosphere is great, as are the clothes and hairstyles. I am a huge fan of Lily Collins, and Marla was a wonderful role for her. Her beauty reminds me of Elizabeth Taylor, never more than in this film. Despite such a stellar cast, which also included Candace Bergen, Alec Baldwin, and Oliver Platt, the "names" really did not have very big roles or much opportunity to act.As for Beatty, he was funny at times, and the script certainly captured Hughes' eccentricities. But the film just left me feeling like I had just watched a little over two hours of not much, confused about the actual plot that seemed to feature Hughes more than these two young people, and mixed up as to the timing. I just read it is supposed to be the early '60s - well, I doubt it since he wasn't involved in RKO after 1954. The end of the film took place in the '60s.Some of the reviews for "Rules Don't Apply" stated it was an unabashed vanity project. And you would expect what from a 79-year-old man who writes, produces, directs, and stars in a film and gets into a clinch with a twenty-something? Just what we got - a film where rules don't apply.

Warren Beatty wrote the screenplay for his own story (with Bo Goldman), stars in and directs this parody of the life of the very strange and very successful Howard Hughes. Though pieced together like a changing puzzle the film works, largely to a fine starring role for Beatty and a supporting cast that is up to his caliber.As the official synopsis states, 'An aspiring young actress (Lily Collins) and her ambitious young driver (Alden Ehrenreich) struggle hopefully with the absurd eccentricities of the wildly unpredictable billionaire, Howard Hughes, (Warren Beatty) for whom they work. It's Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen, songwriter, and devout Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey (Collins), under contract to the infamous Howard Hughes (Beatty), arrives in Los Angeles. At the airport, she meets her driver Frank Forbes (Ehrenreich), who is engaged to be married to his 7th grade sweetheart and is a deeply religious Methodist. Their instant attraction not only puts their religious convictions to the test, but also defies Hughes' #1 rule: no employee is allowed to have any relationship whatsoever with a contract actress. Hughes' behavior intersects with Marla and Frank in very separate and unexpected ways, and as they are drawn deeper into his bizarre world, their values are challenged and their lives are changed.'Add to this a kaleidoscope of famous actors in secondary as well as bit roles – Matthew Broderick, Candice Bergen, Martin Sheen, Annette Benning, Ed Harris, Amy Madigan, Oliver Platt, Alec Baldwin, Dabney Coleman, and more – and the film becomes a play about Hollywood – in a good way. Not a great movie but an entertaining one.