**THE GOOD: 'DOUBLE JEOPARDY'**

WRITING: 55
ACTING: 75
LOOK: 50
SOUND: 50
FEEL: 80
NOVELTY: 60
ENJOYMENT: 80
RE-WATCHABILITY: 75
INTRIGUE: 85
EXPECTATIONS: 85

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**THE GOOD:**

Ashley Judd is pretty convincing in the lead and has plenty of opportunities to shine when it comes to emotional acting. Then she also shows a cold and ruthless aide and proves to be a formidable and clever action hero.

Seriously, though, I rarely enjoy female protagonists as much as I enjoy Libby here. She is clever, determined, charming, ruthless and easy to like.

On the other end of the spectrum, we have Bruce Greenwood, who goes from charming to downright eerily creepy. Meanwhile, poor Tommy Lee Jones is unusually helpless in a characteristically satisfying performance.

I gotta say, I truly enjoyed the action sequences, they are a lot of fun in all their simplicity.

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**THE BAD:**

The film’s first act sets up the mystery around the framed murder, but then does nothing to maintain or further that to keep viewers engaged in Libby’s mission. We are given no further clues or puzzle pieces until the climax.

Some of the situations Libby finds herself in are resolved a bit too conveniently and the script does rake some logical shortcuts to create artificial tension.

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**THE UGLY:**

I'm confused; is it supposed to be 1999 or 2005 after the six-year jump? Because it sure doesn’t feel like 2005!

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**THE VERDICT:**

_A surprisingly enjoyable revenge thriller with a criminally good lead actress and plenty of fun-time action and suspense._

**70% = :white_check_mark: = GOOD**

Pretty good movie. I wouldn't want to do time for a murder I didn't commit. If I was set up like this movie, I'd probably do the same thing she did.

This is a movie that we got a very long time ago when we still purchased a paper TV-magazine to know what was on TV every night. The last couple of years when we did that we frequently got a DVD as a “bonus” with it and this is one of those. According to my movie collection database we have had it since 2008 and last evening we finally got around watching it.

This is a quite okay movie. It will not blow your socks off but it is fairly okay and worth watching. It is a nice thriller/fugitive style movie to watch on a middle-of-the-week evening. I would probably not have been impressed had I gone to a theater to watch it but watching it as a TV-movie it was quite enjoyable. There are the usual silly moments that tend to be in these kinds of movies of course, starting with the stupid wife who just has to pick up the bloody knife just before the police arrives. Why do all (most) script writers have to put that crap into every movie?

I do generally like Tommy Lee Jones even though he tends to look and act pretty much the same no matter which movie he is in. I guess I like stability. The plot is okay. It is a fairly conventional husband frames wife, wife goes after husband kind of story and does not really provide any surprises.

One thing that caught my attention was that the car dealer apparently could do a credit check on a woman that was, as was found out later in the movie, dead since three years. I think someone missed the QA-checking of the script in terms of credibility there but then, as I said, the movie will not blow your socks of and the plot is fairly standard Hollywood fare with the usual silly stuff in it.

Weak and from a legal standpoint complete wrong (despite a former lawyer turned murderer and former law professor saying so). Ashley Judd and Tommy Lee Jones are good and Bruce Greenwood plays smarmy well but this isn't a very good thriller. **2.75/5**