| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle
There's something heartening about a film that aspires to do nothing but entertain -- and does.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Examiner
Entertainment made well enough that you can overlook its absurdities.
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| 70 |
Dallas Observer
A solo "Thelma and Louise" crossed with a gender-reversed "The Fugitive" with a dry twist of "Fletch."
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| 67 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Loaded down with credibility problems.
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| 63 |
Chicago Sun-Times
Not a successful thriller, but with some nice dramatic scenes along with the dumb mystery and contrived conclusion.
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| 63 |
New York Post
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.
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| 63 |
Boston Globe
Judd is pretty much on her own - an assignment she mostly can handle with aplomb.
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| 55 |
TNT RoughCut
Matt Kelsey
Jones' pursuit of Judd follows the tried-but-true plotline of winding cat-and-mouse chases that lead to big climaxes.
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| 50 |
Film.com
A generally dumb movie with a smart, appealing, gutsy leading lady.
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| 50 |
Charlotte Observer
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.
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| 50 |
Baltimore Sun
Milton Kent
It's just too bad that you can see everything coming from a mile away.
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| 50 |
Miami Herald
Bad in a good way if you appreciate this sort of silly thriller.
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| 50 |
Film.com
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.
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| 50 |
Los Angeles Times
For all its familiar conventions and hoary improbabilities, Double Jeopardy is a relatively efficient model of its kind.
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| 50 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
Preposterous, if diverting, revenge fantasy that rivals Rambo in sheer narrative chutzpah and vigilantism.
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| 50 |
Variety
Despite fine casting...familiarity sets in and lack of surprises directly lessen what could have been emotionally gripping.
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| 40 |
Salon.com
An intermittently engaging thriller.
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| 40 |
TV Guide
Whether this riot of unrepentant trashiness strikes you as tediously ridiculous or brainlessly amusing is probably a matter of mood.
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| 40 |
The New York Times
Would-be Hitchcockian cat-and-mouse games...are more memorable for their settings...than for their sense.
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| 40 |
LA Weekly
All promise and no payoff.
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| 38 |
New York Daily News
So riddled with plot holes and implausible actions, you can't help feeling insulted by it.
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| 38 |
Chicago Tribune
So nonsensical you don't understand why anyone would actually make it.
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| 33 |
Portland Oregonian
A carnival of stupid coincidences, paper-thin characterizations, and inept staging, lighting and montage.
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| 33 |
Entertainment Weekly
This toothless thriller...feels like a strained reworking of ''The Fugitive.''
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| 30 |
Austin Chronicle
Predictable piffle, a comically unbelievable story that leaves almost no impression except what a sham our legal system is.
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| 30 |
Rolling Stone
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.
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| 30 |
Film.com
Moira 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.
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| 30 |
Chicago Reader
In this inept thriller...the script is a coloring book, and the director's careful to stay within the lines.
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| 20 |
Washington Post
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.
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| 11 |
Mr. Showbiz
It has no subtlety, no shadings, and no suspense, and might as well not have a screenplay.
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