Laws of Attraction: Critic Reviews

Operates on such outdated, unimaginative conventions of movie chemistry that Moore and Brosnan end up appearing older and stodgier than necessary.

The efforts of the cast are not enough to lift Laws of Attraction above the cautious banality of a midseason replacement sitcom.

You have to admire Pierce Brosnan, Julianne Moore and Frances Fisher for never giving up in Laws of Attraction. But watching actors labor so strenuously to re-create the feel of vintage Hollywood deflates the cause rather than exalts it.

The plot, the dialogue and the main characters' love connection are basically mind-numbing, and even Parker Posey can't save the show.

Julianne Moore and Pierce Brosnan create just enough chemistry to carry Laws of Attraction.

Laws of Attraction is like the Hepburn-Tracy movie Adam's Rib -- without Hepburn, Tracy, Adam, or his rib.

Our counselors' lawyer-ese is illegally bland, and their committee-penned banter meticulously Botoxed.

More chemistry between the leads would have helped.

Laws plays like a middling episode of Moonlighting, with the focus on the lawyers instead of the private eyes they hire.

The dialogue is hit-and-miss, and the plot, short on surprises.

Watching Moore and Brosnan do this modernized yet willfully dated dance is honeyed entertainment.

The actors work hard to concoct some chemistry, but it's tough to be Tracy and Hepburn, let alone Doris Day and Rock Hudson, when you're trying to get your mouth around lines that wouldn't pass muster on a UPN sitcom.

Watch Hepburn and Tracy in Adam's Rib. It's very something.

[The leads] really deserved more from the director, Peter Howitt and co-writers Aline Brosh McKenna and Robert Harling, who among them come up with less than one serviceable screenplay.

A middling film that wastes a lot of good opportunities, as well as two fine, charming co-stars.

Laughably predictable and lamentably unfunny.

[Brosnan] has his charm emitter turned up to 10, and [Moore] manages to insert episodes of loopy behavior without calling into question her character's intelligence.

Disappointingly tepid and lacking in essential chemistry, Laws of Attraction simply never adds up to much.

This movie treats romance as a science project and spends more time worrying about product placement than character development.

A fun date flick.

The charming chemistry of the leads and the lightness of tone achieved by director Peter Howitt ... keeps the whole enterprise afloat.

Pierce Brosnan is impossibly suave; Julianne Moore is faultlessly lovely. But the heat they generate together couldn't spark a Boy Scout's campfire.

A film that is antic and strident instead of witty and shrewd.

Julianne Moore's talent is simply too heavy for her to rise above this quicksand comedy.

The film appears to have been assembled by agents with stopwatches on their clients.