Double Jeopardy

1999 "Murder isn't always a crime."
6.5| 1h45m| R| en
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Libby Parsons, wrongly convicted for her husband Nick's murder, thinks he is still alive and wants to settle the score and find their son. As she has been tried for the crime, she cannot be re-prosecuted if she finds and kills Nick.

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ChikPapa Very disappointed :(
Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.
Gutsycurene Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.
Aubrey Hackett While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.
Davis P Double Jeopardy (1999) is a crime thriller starring Ashley Judd and Tommy Lee Jones. I am a fan of both Judd and Jones, they both typically make good films and have given exceptional performances throughout their career in Hollywood. They give good performances here, don't get me wrong, the issues with this movie didn't lie with the cast or the acting. The issue was the execution of the plot. The plot is very interesting and it's one that would intrigue many people and make them want to see this film, as it did me, but the way the filmmakers handled it was lackluster. I became pretty bored during this movie, it became very formulaic and just eh. I love a crime thriller that can keep me engaged throughout the entire runtime, and this one just didn't do that. The positive things in the movie are: the casting, and the acting. The reason this movie's rating isn't lower is because of Judd and Jones. Their captivating performances kept my interest most of the time, it's really too bad the rest of the movie just wasn't that good. 5/10 for Double Jeopardy.
Kenney Madsen Overall the movie were watchable, and also worth a watch, especially if you ain't got something "better". But that's also about it, good start, weak ending and a whole lot of uneventful tracking-down and no planning what so ever.The start of the movie were pretty solid, and the "double jeopardy" idea for a movie had some solid potential for a cool "sweet revenge" ending. I could live with the somewhat lacking credibility and thought process, at certain moments in the movie. I had hoped for a well planned murder, maybe in broad daylight in front of people who thought they knew him. And that no one could charge her. But "she" ruined that along the way with her actions, to break her parole and almost killing her parole-officer, because even if she had gotten away with the murder, she would still be charged with assault and breaking parole and potentially having to serve her full sentence anyway (regardsless of being innocent). And so sadly the ending were in a sense drawn out, and were also quite undramatic and suddenly he were dead and the movie was over. But overall the movie were a letdown, i hoped for more, but got a weak ending.
wcgreen-65865 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.
Chas Mitchell (ChasM95) It's not the worst movie I've ever seen but it's just really dull for a Thriller.The acting is decent, but there's a lot of repetitive dialogue, and lots of boring moments. The suspense level is really low and it didn't really do much to keep me at the edge of my seat except for the near end of the film. The plot is probably where this movie destroyed it for me. It had an interesting concept, but the execution was very poor and it lacked suspense, thrills and energy. Tommy Lee Jones is easily the strongest actor in the film and that's one of the things that prevented me from rating this movie any lower than what I gave it. It has some good parts that don't make the film entirely bad, but it's just an all-around dull thriller that has been poorly executed.I'd say rent it first before you buy it just to be on the safe side. Maybe you might find things in this movie that you enjoy.