Forget
that the preview to this mystery gives away just about every boring surprise it
has to offer and forget that this film is a low rent version of The Fugitive,
and you still might not like it. Double Jeopardy is simply a dull film with loads
of talent involved.
Ashley
Judd (Heat, Kiss the Girls) plays a woman sentenced to six years in prison for
killing her husband. Tommy Lee Jones plays her burnt-out parole officer who discovers
that things may not be as they seem. Judd can be quite effective, but here she's
a composite of Harrison Ford's character in The Fugitive and Julia Roberts' character
in Sleeping With the Enemy. She's also forced to participate in a gratuitous sex
act in the first twenty minutes that I must admit I loved, but it was completely
unnecessary. And then there's the always competent Jones who's played this role
twice before.
This
film is one of those obvious wannabe nail-biters that never really works because
it's so damned predictable. There is not one unexpected twist or surprise in the
entire film.
