Laws of Attraction

While Pierce Brosnan is a charming-as-all-hell bastard and Julianne Moore is unquestionably fun, the film surrounding them here is not up to their standards. Playing rival divorce attorneys who get married after a drunken night in Ireland, the two make you wish you were watching them in something else, because they definitely have chemistry and the script is definitely piss- poor. Writer Aline Brosh McKenna sets them adrift in such banal situations that it’s a wonder the pair remain straight-faced and focused. A subplot about a rock-star divorce proves to be the film’s most fatal flaw, as Parker Posey makes us forget what a decent actress she can be with her portrayal of the rock star’s cartoonish wife. Brosnan made me laugh on quite a few occasions, and Moore just lights up the screen, but they still can’t save the movie, which ends with an unfunny and strikingly abrupt thud.