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By Brooke Holgerson
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For a brief moment, it’s kind of fun seeing James Bond in a wrinkled suit sleeping off a hangover in a chair. Then he wakes up, and it’s not really Bond, it’s Pierce Brosnan playing an attorney in this romantic comedy (that’s the genre, not a description) from Sliding Doors director Peter Howitt. He’s up against Julianne Moore, who appears to be the only other divorce lawyer in New York. They go head to head in several high-profile cases, and wouldn’t you know it, they find themselves falling for each other. Enter Parker Posey and Michael Sheen as the entertainingly obnoxious rock-star couple getting a messy divorce, throw in a trip to Ireland and a drunken marriage, and you’ve got a movie. What you don’t have is Adam’s Rib. Brosnan and Moore are appealing leads, but they try too hard to capture the anarchic spirit of classic screwball comedies. Moore is brittle and uptight, Brosnan wacky and sincere; the result is just antic, and the emotional payoff, when it comes, feels like a bad concluding argument. This is the kind of movie where having someone watch the Weather Channel passes for character development. (93 minutes) At the Entertainment, Flagship, Opera House, Providence Place 16, Showcase, and Tri-Boro cinemas.
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