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Double Jeopardy (1999)

Rate: 4
Viewed: 4/25

DoJeo
4/25: The stupidity never ends in Double Jeopardy.

One of the female prisoners said, "Ever hear of 'double jeopardy'? Fifth Amendment to the Constitution? Huh? No? Well, double jeopardy provides that...'No person may be tried for the same crime twice.' You got that? Keep stirrin'. The state says you already killed your husband. They can't convict you of it a second time."

What a fucking idiot. After killing the husband for the second time, that means the state got it right after all. Now, Libby Parsons will have to go back to prison and serve the rest of her life there. The end. Good thinking. I've got a better idea: how about contacting the lawyer or one of the relatives and friends right away to hire a private detective to track down the supposedly deceased husband by using the last known address? All he has to do is show a picture of him to somebody in the vicinity and get confirmation. Once done, Libby is free as a bird because you see...no murder has occurred in the first place!

But nooooooo.......she must go the hard way to commit a boatload of crimes, and thus, I'm in Ashley Judd movie hell. When the confronted husband said, "Let me get it straight. She believes that I am her husband whom she killed," I was like, "Uh......you've just confirmed it. That's it. The movie is officially over." So, what is Travis Lehman waiting for? He should know what the husband is supposed to look like from the newspaper articles. What an idiot for an ex-law professor. Curiously, if Libby's mother is alive, why not leave the kid with her? Also, is it necessary to recreate the boutique scene from Pretty Woman?

Anyway, Double Jeopardy gets '4' from me only because of Tommy Lee Jones, who's understandably doing The Fugitive all over again, and the nice shots of the French Quarter and Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 (there's no such place as No. 3). But no thanks to Ashley Judd. She should've contacted Sean Penn so they could do a movie together and cry to each other for hours and laugh at everybody, "We're just acting!!!!!" I've always hated Jodie Foster, and she was slated to appear in the film before dropping out. According to Wikipedia:

"Bruce Beresford met with her several times about the script. She said to me once, when we were having... not an argument, we had different points of view over something, and she said, 'We'll have to do it my way, I'm afraid.' And I said, 'Why, Jodie?' And she said, 'Because I'm so intelligent. I'm such an intelligent person that there is no point in disagreeing with me because I'm always right.' I thought she was joking, but she wasn't! [laughs] She had this extraordinary opinion of her own IQ."

All in all, Double Jeopardy is a perfect example of misinterpreting a term and going off the deep end.