Such a frustrating disappointment

Pretty Good

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

I like TLJ and Ashley Judd. They have good chemistry.Okay, let's just start out with the title. Double Jeopardy. That means once acquitted you cannot be tried for the same crime again. Judd's character after being convicted reads a law book in prison and she interprets it that she can kill her ex-husband who faked his death in the middle of Mardi Gras and wouldn't be charged.WRONG.Think of it this way. A man is wrongly convicted of raping a woman and spends years in prison until DNA evidence previously not known or capable at the time reveals the man's innocence. That does not give him the right when he gets out of prison to go after that woman and rape her.See why this movie is so ridiculous? I still give it a five out of ten, but if you know anything about law or criminal proceedings or insurance or airport security (she somehow got on a plane with a 9mm revolver without any problem) you might start rolling your eyes quickly.

Switch off your disbelief before watching Double Jeopardy and you might enjoy this movie. Otherwise, it will drive you crazy with all the ridiculous plot flaws. For starters, the premise is flat out wrong. The first amendment does protect people from being convicted twice for the same crime. The same crime means just that.... same place, time, circumstances and victim. It is not a blank check for someone falsely convicted of a crime to go on a crime spree to avenge their wrongful conviction. In essence, this movie is just one improbable... if not impossible... scenario after another. Very little that takes place in this movie could or would ever happen in real life so the viewer must be assumed to be a complete imbecile to swallow it all without question.It wastes little time getting to the first impossible to believe situation. Woman's husband buys her an obscenely expensive yacht out of the blue to show his utter devotion to her. They spend a romantic evening on it yet she wakes up the next morning alone and covered with blood. She walks around as if in a daze and discovers a bloody knife which of course she picks up at the precise moment that the coast guard pulls up along side the boat. This was a scene in almost every episode of the Perry Mason TV series, and each time I would say "Do NOT pick up the murder weapon!" but they ALWAYS did.The rest of the movie is just more of the same. For example, when she finds out her husband is actually alive, why didn't she simply dial up her lawyer and tell him? Lawyers love to find out that their clients were falsely convicted. It would have taken him all of a day or two to retain a private detective to track down hubby and prove he was indeed very much alive then Voila! .... she walks free, hubby goes to prison along with her best friend/accomplice to her false conviction and she gets her son back. But that wouldn't have filled two plus hours of screen time.If you have two hours to kill and nothing better to do then you might consider watching this movie. Much better to spend that time watching much higher quality entertainment such as C-Span or the Weather Channel.

Very briefly, Ashley Judd is married to Greenwood, apparently happily. They have one infant. Gish is their best friend. Greenwood fakes his own murder after setting the stage for the arrest and conviction of Judd. She accidentally discovers that Greenwood and Gish have betrayed her and run off with the kid.Six years go by. Judd is paroled under the supervision of the hard-nosed Tommy Lee Jones. But she skips, and by means of some tricks discovers that Greenwood has murdered Gish and moved to New Orleans where he is now a pillar of the community. This greatly irritates Judd, who tracks him down, with Jones in hot pursuit.There are some pretty good action sequences. It's not often an escaped prisoner, manacled to a car door, will start the car and race it off the ferry's aft ramp. And there are other exciting moments. At one point, Judd is knocked out and wakes up to find herself locked into a coffin in one of those above-ground mausoleums in New Orleans' famous All Saints Cemetery.Judd isn't bad. She gets the job done. But she's been able to do more than that in some of her other work, most notably "Heat." Still, it's enthralling to witness her features at times turn into a pageant of fleeting expressions. Tommy Lee Jones, an inventive actor, is more or less wasted in a reprise of his role as the obsessed and gelid representative of justice in "The Fugitive, some five or six years earlier. Too bad.As thrillers go, this one isn't as repulsive as many others. Is there a car chase? Are you kidding? The "double jeopardy" business is a lot of hooey. The attempt to jack up suspense -- leaving open the question of whether Judd will walk up to her delinquent husband and blow his brains out in public -- interferes with the purer motive that these commercial enterprises require -- namely, a mother's desire to raise her baby.

Tommy Lee Jones and Ashley Judd team up in a story where happily married Libby Parsons (Judd) finds her financial-troubled husband Nick (Bruce Greenwood) missing. An investigation leads to the conviction of Libby for murdering Nick to obtain the insurance policy he had. While in prison, Libby learns Nick is still alive and had framed her. Therefore, after being paroled she escapes probation officer Travis (Tommy Lee Jones) to look for Nick, with Travis hot on her trail.This movie combines the tension of Judd's "Kiss The Girls" and Jones' "The Fugitive" to provide a movie that is double the mystery and suspense, captivating an audience and keeping the movie's momentum strong. The tension builds in one scene after the other to its action-packed climax, from the moment Libby finds her husband missing to her struggling to cope in prison, and to her avoiding her probation officer to her attempting to track down her husband.Movie may be a little predictable, and some of the plot elements are the same as the TV movie "Bitter Vengeance," which stars Bruce Greenwood playing a character that also escapes, fakes his murder, and frames his wife. But overall, this is another nice popcorn movie for a night.Grade B-