Move over, Hugh Grant! James Bond star Pierce Brosnan has stolen your clothes in the romantic comedy LAWS OF ATTRACTION (12A).
Incredibly, Pierce will be 51 on May 16, but here he often looks and behaves 15 years younger.
Never has he appeared on screen looking more relaxed, nor as if he is enjoying himself so much.
As well he might, since the lovely Julianne Moore is playing opposite him as a fellow divorce attorney who has also never lost a case.
Despite her superior track record in the Oscars, Miss Moore comes off decidedly second best to Pierce who's also given himself a co-executive producer credit, too.
And the film loses a bit of credibility when it moves over to Ireland, wheels out too many cliches and even ignores the black stuff when there's a drinking contest in a bar.
But, for the most part, Laws of Attraction is as sparkling as a bottle of quality bubbly despite treading such a well worn, predictable path with its plot.
Directed by Manchester-born actor Peter Howitt, who's gone from playing Joey in Bread to making hits like Sliding Doors and Johnny English, the script's central premise is that 80 per cent of successful women who claim they are too busy for a relationship are unhappy.
And I'd go along with that. What's the point of working your socks off if there's nobody to share it with or to inspire you to try new directions?
Busy Pierce has got five new movies on the go, starting with After the Sunset. Due out on November 12, it co-stars Salma Hayek and is directed by the hot Brett Ratner (Rush Hour 2 & 3 and Red Dragon)
There's also Richard Shepard's thriller The Matador, with Greg Kinnear, comedy Instant Karma (pre-production) with Gene Wilder, Bond 21 with John Cleese and Judi Dench and Mexicali, a thriller about a man whose wife has been kidnapped.
But, if were him, the star I'd be begging to work with on a comedy would be. . . Jamie Lee Curtis, especially as she's still only 45.
Like Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt in As Good As It Gets, it could be a match made in heaven.
