Double Jeopardy

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

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

San Francisco Examiner Walter Addiego

Entertainment made well enough that you can overlook its absurdities.

Dallas Observer Gregory Weinkauf

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

Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold

Loaded down with credibility problems.

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

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

New York Post 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.

Boston Globe Jay Carr

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

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.

Film.com Robert Horton

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

Charlotte Observer 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.

Baltimore Sun Milton Kent

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

Miami Herald Curtis Morgan

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

Film.com Ernest 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.

Los Angeles Times Gene Seymour

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

Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey

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

Variety Robert Koehler

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

Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir

An intermittently engaging thriller.

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

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

The New York Times Elvis Mitchell

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

LA Weekly Hazel-Dawn Dumpert

All promise and no payoff.

New York Daily News Jack Mathews

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

Chicago Tribune Mark Caro

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

Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy

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

Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

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

Austin Chronicle Sarah Hepola

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

Rolling Stone 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.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.

Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector

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

Washington Post 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.

Mr. Showbiz Cody Clark

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