The premise of this film is a good one. It is well set up and interesting from the start. It's downhill from there on. While there are slick action sequences and lots of close calls, the possibility of these things taking place is preposterous. First of all, no body and a conviction. It almost never happens. Aren't there any forensics? What about the blood? Was it his. The prison scenes are so antiseptic with the two buddies becoming the immediate friends. Then there is old bulldog Tommy Lee Jones (one of my favorite actors) with his own ghosts. The downfall of the film, however, is that it defies the the law of gravity. The whole thing winds down to where we are supposed to believe that the diminutive Ashley Judd is able to accomplish all this because she ran around in the rain and pumped a little iron in prison. By the way, does anyone know how loud a gun is in a closed space when fired right near one's ear? It's just another one of those questions that makes this whole thing ludicrous.
Review of Double Jeopardy
