Driving by his deep love for Kate, a beautiful collage student, Richard, a middle aged handsome poetry professor at Cambridge University, who moves to live with her, but when her sister enters their life, everything comes to challenge him.
Sometimes, [the film] wants to be light farce, all repartee and two-dimensional characters; other times it wants to be a contender, with deathbed scenes and motivating lectures on romantic poetry. At all times it's a tremendous waste of talent.
Rather than Pierce giving a lecture on how to be a better person, he should have stuck to bedding the half-sisters played by Jessica Alba and Salma Hayek.
One generation's silver fox is another's creepy old sex pest, and Pierce Brosnan doesn't have the comic chops, or even the facial expressions, to bridge the gap here.
This rom-com ... is so hackneyed it might be more fun counting the cliches than cheering for its male lead, now stranded light years away from his former James Bond glow.
