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Double Jeopardy

Double Jeopardy

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Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Maybe....
Review: ....Billy Wilder's death will stimulate the studios into re-releasing the original, which should have been done anyway prior to the re-release of this remake. I think the jerks programming the releases of the DVDs should be aware that there are (not a few) customers who prefer to wait for the real thing and won't buy the "ersatz" they are so inclined to produce first.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Formulaic thriller
Review: This silly thriller hinges on the audience's believability that a woman who is falsely accused of her husband's murder can turn into a revenge-seeking man-hater and kill him for real (as he's actually still alive) due to the rule of double jeopardy. What this means is that a person can only be accused of someone's murder once, so technically she's free to kill.

There's a whole manner of things to make you stop caring about this. Number one would have to be the ridiculously light view of life on the inside. When the heroine is locked away she forms deep friendships with her inmates and seems to do a lot of jogging. A few years and she's out, under the supervision of Tommy Lee Jones (who is basically reprising his role in 'The Fugitive'). Of course, finding her husband leads to lots of dumb dead ends, stupid chase scenes and the ultimate dilemma at the end: will she or won't she kill her husband? The answer is clear in the fact that this was a box office success, and this is just another in a long line of thrillers that should have just gone straight to video.

Thankfully though, Ashley Judd is good in the leading role, and there are some mildly impressive special effects. Apart from that though, there are several scenes that could have been milked for al their worth. Instead, most of them are pretty dead. This is uninspiring drivel.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Incredible!!!
Review: I give two thumbs up Beresford (director)! This is an incredible thriller, and Judd plays the roll of Libby Parsons extrordinarily! Excellent!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: MASTERFUL ACTION & SUSPENSE
Review: Framed for knifing her husband on a boating trip, Libby Parsons is torn away from her young son and thrown into prison with the hard-core criminals. There, Libby learns that her husband is still alive, and determines to find him and set things right. Years pass. When she comes up for parole, Libby jumps at the chance and hits the road to track down the man she once loved and take back her son...before it's too late. Ashley Judd is flawless in her portrayal of a good woman done wrong, fusing both sides of Libby's personality (good-hearted mother & avenging angel) into a seamless whole like no other modern actress could. Tommy Lee Jones is indeed excellent as Libby's relentless parole officer, a man with his own problems, but there's no denying this is Ms. Judd's movie. If there's another Hollywood actress out there who packs the combo of beauty and brains that Ms. Judd does, this reviewer has not seen her. One of the best suspensers of the last twenty years, in some ways surpassing even "Kiss the Girls," "Double Jeopardy" starts out strong and flies to a breathless, satisfying climax.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: wow
Review: This movie was great. What a brilliant plot. And I loved how Libby chased nick down with her mind. It was great
*****!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great movie!!!
Review: This is an excellant movie!! Very suspenseful and exciting!! When it first came out at the theaters, I was ot at all interested in seeing it. But then one day I caught the tail end of it on cable and just had to see the wole thing!! So we rented it, and I just had to see ot again and again!! Now it is my favorite movie!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: One good and suspencful thriller
Review: This movie is excelent and very suspencful.I got the movie when it came out on DVD and loved it.The movie is about a couple who borrow a boat for the weekend.The couple went to sleep and when the wife,Libby(Ashley Judd),wakes up she sees her husband is not there.All Libby sees is blood all over te boat.Well she when she gets to land she finds out that hr husband is dead.This of course shakes her and her sons world up quite a bit.After all that is over Libby is arrested with charges of murdering her husband,leaving her son in the care of hr best friend.Libby finds out,by calling this friend,that her husband is still alive.
When she gets out of prison she decides to seek revenge on her husband and get her kid back.
The movie is one great suspencful treat.Ashley Judd and Tommy Lee Jones deliver wonderful performances.This is a movie for anyone who loves suspence.Great flick!!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Bad written and a waste of time for Judd and Jones.
Review: The useually good acting performans of Ashley Judd and Tommey Lee Jones can not salavge this really bad film of a woman framed for a crime by her former husband and then getting help from a laywer to track down and kill her husband. This movie has the plot of a badly writen TV movie of the week. One hopes we see fewer of these in the future.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Super Performances!
Review: Just right for DVD viewing. One would not comment about its big screen performance but maybe the audience was not ready for a simply tight and well connected thriller from Tommy Lee Jones. Not many twists in the tale and gripping with good performances from everyone.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Ridiculous
Review: OK, so Ashley Judd is very cute and Tommy Lee Jones has showed us more than once that he can play tough cops. Well, you know what? That's no excuse for putting the two of them together with an absolutely lousy script and very bad direction to make this piece of junk. For one thing, there's no suspense at all. The "action" scenes are laughable in the worst possible way. Also, Ms. Judd's nude scene is completely unnecessary. You'd think Tommy Lee would have more sense than returning to the SAME character he played in The Fugitive and its sequel just because it rendered him an Oscar nomination the first time around. He could do better than this. So should we. (For more, see Sue Scotese's excellent review, below.)


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