Double Jeopardy: Critic Reviews

Ms. Judd looks too dainty to throw herself into anything more reckless than a manicure.

The result has a drawback common to such movies: too much screen time devoted to the conceit when anyone who has seen the coming-attractions trailer knows it already.

A lukewarm outing that mostly just bops from plot point to plot point.

Beresford's straight-ahead approach to the material, as a heart-tugger, is 180 degrees wrong.

A crackling good action thriller.

The picture itself is so nonsensical you don't understand why anyone would actually make it.

Double Jeopardy is single-minded and engaging thriller storytelling without an afterglow.

Visual lushness is almost the only indication that the movie was directed by the same Bruce Beresford who made Breaker Morant and Driving Miss Daisy.

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

A muddled thriller.

This movie should be exhumed and executed again!

The way the screenwriters treat the law is in many ways similar to way they treat intelligence of the viewers.

Double Jeoprady has all the legal savvy of the O.J. Simpson jury.

The script, not rooted in logic, leaves certain plot elements unexplained. And when the ending arrives, it's no surprise.

This film takes a potentially interesting premise and makes some mistakes that result in a faulty final product.

This bone-weary material would barely make for a passable episode of Diagnosis: Murder.

Implausible and contrived...it's "The Fugitive," complete with Tommy Lee Jones in essentially the same role.

The action scenes and color photography are generic.

Too much of Double Jeopardy is illogical.

Bruce Beresford shows a unexpected flair for pulp-fiction stuff and even makes one forget the irrationality.

What you don't get is tense, credible plotting.

Works as a fast-paced thriller.

Anyone with half a brain will leave the theater feeling cheated by its cockamamie premise and unoriginal styling.

Jeopardy has elements of an enjoyable film, and the various plot twists start out promising, but director Bruce Beresford never quite follows through, and is unable to effectively control the movie's pace and tone.

It cannot be art, but commercially and emotionally, it aims to satisfy, and does.