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Release Year: 1999
Average Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars
Last Reviewed On: May 31, 2000 (by Scott)
(DVD version)


Scott's Review:
2.5 out of 5 stars on May 31, 2000

I felt as if I was watching the fugitive. Only, slightly worse. This movie starts off with the silly premise that a wife's husband stages his death at her hands, and manages to do it so well that she is thrown in jail (for six years?) for the crime. Then, of course, since someone can't be tried for the same crime twice, never mind that trying to kill her husband again would in fact be a different crime, she sets off to find, and kill her husband. Tommy Lee Jones is the down and out parole officer that for some strange reasons follows her across the country. At this point, it turns into the fugitive, with amazingly predictable twists and turns. If you can ignore the huge gaping plot hole that is this film's name, then you'll probably be able to enjoy it.
-- Scott and Michelle