Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

Console best movie i've ever seen.

Nessieldwi Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

Keeley Coleman The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

mattkratz Double Jeopardy doesn't exactly work as it's portrayed in this movie, but it's still a terrific film. Imagine The Fugitive (with Tommy Lee Jones in both films as the pursuer!) with a woman in the title role. Ashley Judd is framed for her husband's murder and sentenced to prison. While there, she learns through clever detective work that her husband is still alive, learns about double jeopardy, gets paroled, and starts tracking down for "revenge."The action is tense and exciting and the story is terrific, and all the stars have good chemistry. Judd's performance really carries it.*** out of ****

gavin6942 A woman (Ashley Judd) framed for her husband's murder suspects he is still alive; as she has already been tried for the crime, she cannot be re-prosecuted if she finds and kills him.Jodie Foster was originally attached to star in the film as Libby Parsons after Michelle Pfeiffer, Meg Ryan and Brooke Shields all declined the role, and Bruce Beresford met with her several times about the script. I would have loved to see Foster in this, as personally I find Judd to be a weak actress and not very engaging.As far as mysteries or thrillers go, this one is pretty good but suffers from a major flaw: the premise is just not true. If it was about a woman trying to clear her name by finding her husband, that is a good story. But this plot device about being able to kill him again, that just doesn't hold up...

Robert J. Maxwell Very briefly, Ashley Judd is married to Greenwood, apparently happily. They have one infant. Gish is their best friend. Greenwood fakes his own murder after setting the stage for the arrest and conviction of Judd. She accidentally discovers that Greenwood and Gish have betrayed her and run off with the kid.Six years go by. Judd is paroled under the supervision of the hard-nosed Tommy Lee Jones. But she skips, and by means of some tricks discovers that Greenwood has murdered Gish and moved to New Orleans where he is now a pillar of the community. This greatly irritates Judd, who tracks him down, with Jones in hot pursuit.There are some pretty good action sequences. It's not often an escaped prisoner, manacled to a car door, will start the car and race it off the ferry's aft ramp. And there are other exciting moments. At one point, Judd is knocked out and wakes up to find herself locked into a coffin in one of those above-ground mausoleums in New Orleans' famous All Saints Cemetery.Judd isn't bad. She gets the job done. But she's been able to do more than that in some of her other work, most notably "Heat." Still, it's enthralling to witness her features at times turn into a pageant of fleeting expressions. Tommy Lee Jones, an inventive actor, is more or less wasted in a reprise of his role as the obsessed and gelid representative of justice in "The Fugitive, some five or six years earlier. Too bad.As thrillers go, this one isn't as repulsive as many others. Is there a car chase? Are you kidding? The "double jeopardy" business is a lot of hooey. The attempt to jack up suspense -- leaving open the question of whether Judd will walk up to her delinquent husband and blow his brains out in public -- interferes with the purer motive that these commercial enterprises require -- namely, a mother's desire to raise her baby.

WakenPayne Okay so the one main reason why I sat down and watched this is because I was told it was a good movie and decided to sit down and take a look at it and despite some really REALLY questionable things that happen in this movie, I didn't mind it at all.Okay so the story is that a woman named Libby Parsons who is rich, has a family and is pretty much on top of the world. One night she finds her husband dead and she is the suspect. When she is found to be guilty she gives her child to her best friend and it turns out that a couple of months later they've disappeared off the map and when she tracks them she finds out that her husband was alive the whole time. She then finds out from a prison friend that she can kill her husband again and she can't be convicted for it or in any way legally harm her (Um... I'm not American but I'm going to call bullshit on this one).Once she goes on parole six years after she started doing her time, she then decides to set out and find her son by any means necessary, even by abusing her parole. Through this her Parole officer runs across the country to find her and stop her (Wasn't this almost exactly Tommy Lee Jones' role in The Fugitive too?).I think some of the acting was pretty... Well it was kind of on and off. I'm not just talking about how some performances were good while others were bad (although some of the supporting players do a consistently okay job) I mean with people like Ashley Judd. I mean at some points she did a convincing job while other times... you could tell she was reading from a script. Although to be fair I might consider this bad directing/editing than I would bad acting if they were okay with using some of these takes.And the writing does get a little weak in places. For example Libby's sole defense for not killing her husband is "You have to believe me", and as I said I'm pretty sure the loophole that she could kill her husband for real and there will be no legal repercussions is a really dumb plot point and there's a scene where she pretends to be her friend who adopted her son to buy a car (or learn her social security number) and a scene later we find out this friend died a few years earlier in the story... How come the Car Salesman didn't call out on the fact that she's using a dead woman's social security? It would have been better if that was revealed then.Okay now based on those complaints I think I should say what I liked. I actually think the cinematography is okay. The chase scenes are well directed and the premise is actually interesting enough to get me through the story and as I said some of the acting from people like Tommy Lee Jones is actually quite good.So I guess if you like something that isn't that smart yet has an interesting premise, good acting and good chase scenes then I would certainly recommend this movie. If you are looking for something else then I haven't really seen another movie like this (not even The Fugitive) so I can't really pass a recommendation there so as I said if you're looking for a movie that has a good premise even if some of the writing is weak then this is for you.