Double Jeopardy

Paramount Pictures | Release Date: September 24, 1999

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41	METASCORE Mixed or average reviews based on 30 Critic Reviews

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Mick LaSalle

There's something heartening about a film that aspires to do nothing but entertain -- and does. Read full review

Walter Addiego

Entertainment made well enough that you can overlook its absurdities.

Dallas ObserverGregory Weinkauf

A solo "Thelma and Louise" crossed with a gender-reversed "The Fugitive" with a dry twist of "Fletch." Read full review

William Arnold

Loaded down with credibility problems. Read full review

Roger Ebert

Not a successful thriller, but with some nice dramatic scenes along with the dumb mystery and contrived conclusion. Read full review

Jonathan Foreman

There are a few ingenious zig zags in its otherwise by-the-numbers plot...but what keeps you interested... is the sheer movie-star presence of the actors in the lead roles.

Jay Carr

Judd is pretty much on her own - an assignment she mostly can handle with aplomb. Read full review

TNT RoughCutMatt Kelsey

Jones' pursuit of Judd follows the tried-but-true plotline of winding cat-and-mouse chases that lead to big climaxes.

Robert Koehler

Despite fine casting...familiarity sets in and lack of surprises directly lessen what could have been emotionally gripping. Read full review

Gene Seymour

For all its familiar conventions and hoary improbabilities, Double Jeopardy is a relatively efficient model of its kind. Read full review

Carrie Rickey

Preposterous, if diverting, revenge fantasy that rivals Rambo in sheer narrative chutzpah and vigilantism.

Film.comErnest Hardy

An adequate popcorn matinee flick that's anchored by Judd's wonderful lead performance -- a performance that is better than the film earns or deserves. Read full review

Film.comRobert Horton

A generally dumb movie with a smart, appealing, gutsy leading lady. Read full review

Lawrence Toppman

On a simplistic level, the movie works as a revenge fantasy...Yet anybody who thought about the movie for two minutes would have to conclude it couldn't happen. Read full review

Milton Kent

It's just too bad that you can see everything coming from a mile away.

Curtis Morgan

Bad in a good way if you appreciate this sort of silly thriller.

Andrew O'Hehir

An intermittently engaging thriller. Read full review

TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh

Whether this riot of unrepentant trashiness strikes you as tediously ridiculous or brainlessly amusing is probably a matter of mood. Read full review

Janet Maslin

Would-be Hitchcockian cat-and-mouse games...are more memorable for their settings...than for their sense. Read full review

Hazel-Dawn Dumpert

All promise and no payoff. Read full review

Marc Caro

So nonsensical you don't understand why anyone would actually make it. Read full review

Jack Mathews

So riddled with plot holes and implausible actions, you can't help feeling insulted by it. Read full review

Shawn Levy

A carnival of stupid coincidences, paper-thin characterizations, and inept staging, lighting and montage.

Lisa Schwarzbaum

This toothless thriller...feels like a strained reworking of ''The Fugitive.'' Read full review

Peter Travers

Judd is slumming again in ths lame suspense yarn that could barely pass as a TV quickie without the bankable names of Judd, Tommy Lee Jones and director Bruce Beresford.

Film.comMoira Macdonald

Seems to be an exercise not unlike the phone-booth stuffing of the '50s; namely, let's see how much plot we can fit into a movie before it bursts. Read full review

Lisa Alspector

In this inept thriller...the script is a coloring book, and the director's careful to stay within the lines. Read full review

Sarah Hepola

Predictable piffle, a comically unbelievable story that leaves almost no impression except what a sham our legal system is. Read full review

Stephen Hunter

Beginning with an intriguing premise, which it manages to squander in record time, it turns out to be a thinly imagined, thinly acted, silly exercise in car crashes, chases and nasty outbursts of generic violence. Read full review

Mr. ShowbizCody Clark

It has no subtlety, no shadings, and no suspense, and might as well not have a screenplay.