Double Jeopardy (film) - It's "The Fugitive" with a female lead!

I was never really a fan of American thriller films because for the most part they are not really thrilling because you can see the ending coming from a mile away. Compare this to actual thriller films such as the ones made in Korea where you have no idea how the movie is going to end because the good guys lose as often as they win. IN USA films the good guys almost always win.

This movie isn't terrible, it's actually reasonably entertaining but the problem is that the plot is exactly the same as The Fugitive with Harrion Ford from 1993. Released a mere 6 years later I think that perhaps they were thinking we would forget about that movie but we didn't. I watched Double Jeopardy yesterday, 26 years after The Fugitive was released and still I was thinking that the plot seemed extremely similar.

Libby Parsons (Ashley Judd) goes to prison after being accused of murdering her husband on a boat. His body is not found but the evidence all points to her. She didn't do it of course and ends up serving her time in a ludicrously short fashion (6 years for murder?)

Upon her release she tries to find the real killer only to discover that her husband isn't actually dead, but faked his death for an insurance payout at her expense and she spends the rest of the film tracking him down and eventually finds him at a charity event that he is hosting, where she publicly confronts him.

A lot of questions are not answered here such as "how did someone who is legally dead collect a large insurance settlement from their own supposed corpse." They try to explain that it was their child (which is who Libby is truly hunting down) that got the insurance payout and Nick (the husband) somehow used him as a method of siphoning the money to himself.

Wouldn't someone notice that this man who is watching after the orphaned child looks remarkably similar to the murdered Nick? It's dumb

The worst part of the film is Tommy Lee Jones' character, Travis Lehman. Although he doesn't work for the federal government he is constantly in pursuit of "the fugitive" in precisely the same uncaring manor that he hunted Richard Kimble in that other fugitive movie. He is exactly the same character but just a weaker version of it.

Just like in The Fugitive he eventually sees the error of his ways and sides with the person that he has been hunting.

Libbey says time and time again that she can kill her husband with impunity if she wants to because she was already charged with the murder of him and did time.... however, this is not how double jeopardy actually works and it is just funny to me that the entire premise of this copycat film is a based on an untruth.

The movie made a ton of money so I suppose artistic integrity was already on the way out by 1999. Personally, i found the plot holes and completely unoriginal story to be a death sentence for the movie as a whole, despite the high production value.