Double Jeopardy is not a Game Show

Double Jeopardy (1999)

I watched this as a kid and always wondered what movie it was so I went out and found it! I thought it starred Sandra Bullock lol. Spoiler, it does not.

This is a movie about a woman, I’ll just refer to her as Ashley, 'cause Ashley Judd plays her, who wakes up on a boat after a nice cruise with her husband, only to find blood everywhere and no sign of said husband. When she gets home, she’s convicted of murdering him, and we, the audience, know she didn’t. She goes to prison, her friend runs off with her son, and then when she finally tracks her son down, turns out the husband is alive and SCREWING HER FRIEND!!! They're all playing House together!!! LOL the best part is all it took was the son saying "Daddy!" while Ashley was on the phone with the whore friend. Dumb smart kid.

So there’s a nice ex-lawyer-murdering lady in prison who tells Ashley that there’s this law called Double Jeopardy. You can’t be tried twice for the same crime; so she can get out of prison, find her seemingly alive husband, and kill him in the middle of Times Square, and no one can do anything about it.

WHEW! That’s the part I always remembered as a kid. I thought wow that’s such a great law for this exact reason, because now at least she can get revenge for him framing her, right???

Anyway, spoiler: she does. Revenge, kill him, get her kid back, she befriends her ex-parole officer Tommy Lee Jones who is just always great, and the cheating whore friend dies because whore husband killed, everyone’s happy. Careful what you wish for, huh?

Fun scene, Ashley Judd drives herself into a lake off a ferry boat while handcuffed to the car, too. So that's cool. Also, she runs a lot. Good for her. The worst nightmare for me would be getting cast in stuff. #1 question: must I run? No thank you. :)

yayyyy water scene. will they survive??? who knows!!

I think the pace of this movie is a little slow at times, but nothing that didn’t pass quickly. I like the twists and surprises, but each one is genuine and unforeseeable in my opinion. Now I may be a little biased because I actually knew or slightly remembered a lot of them already, having seen it as a kid, but when I look at it over, I don’t spot any clues to the whodunnit answers or too on-the-nose spoilers.

I liked the relationship between Ashley and Tommy Lee Jones by the end of it, but I will say their closeness felt a little random. I mean they go through a lot together, but not really together… Like he’s chasing her the whole time and does every footstep she does, but they’re not like hanging out. He’s a little behind her every time. So when she finally gets caught by him in the end and collapses as a crying mess, I’m a little surprised, because they don’t really know each other like that. Though she had just been locked in a coffin by her cheating fake-deathed framing husband so I suppose that might overwhelm and cause an estranged convict to cry to their parole officer.

Anyway, this doesn’t feel like a very analytical film for me personally, it didn’t have a lot of bad things to note, other than Ashley Judd’s pathetic fake cry. LOL it sounds like someone trying not to sound like they’re faking.

It’s a fun chase, it’s a fun murder thirst quenching movie if that’s what you’re looking for. It’s about 1hr 45min, and it feels that long, too. Fun but long. And all cheaters die! Hooray!

Beautiful couple, terrible man. Lovely.

Definitely recommend watching it!