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COPYRIGHT 2004 Las Vegas Review-Journal
BYLINE: CAROL CLING, REVIEW-JOURNAL
When you're in a bubbly mood, there's nothing worse than flat champagne. (Or stale ginger ale, for that matter.)
Yet that's the overall impact -- or, more precisely, lack of impact -- "Laws of Attraction" makes.
It works hard to whip up a frothy, opposites-attract romance between two battling divorce lawyers we know are fated to be mated.
Not because there's any inherent chemistry or attraction between them, but that's what the script says, so that's what the movie does.
And is it ever frustrating to watch.
It's painful to see dramatic powerhouse Julianne Moore, one of the best actresses around (catch "Far From Heaven" or "The Hours" for proof), struggle to create something, anything, out of nothing.
It's even more painful to witness Moore fidget and fuss trying to...
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