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I loved this movie the first time I saw it in 99 & I love it again 2016


I really don't understand how so many don't like this movie, it's got a well played cast & suspense throughout. I guess everyone doesn't have the same tastes in movies, but why trash something good, just say nothing.

Shalom

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Where it fails is being so completely wrong on the legal part. If they would just have completely removed any reference to double jeopardy, it would have been a better movie.

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Yes... But it's just a movie, it wasn't coming from a "truth" standpoint. ;-)

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I kinda like to base that standard on how seriously the film takes itself. In a Mars Attacks-type situation, you don't really worry about silly science. But this film was almost going out it's way to repeat the legitimate legal basis for their premise. In Jurassic Park, if the way they'd exracted dino DNA was just flatly ludicrist, it would impact the film's narrative I think. Yes it's just a movie and yes it doesn't matter, but I do understand why some law professors made a point to refute it.

What I found funny was the number of crimes and victims she left in her wake to seek justice - trashing a rental card, trashing Jones' car, charging gowns to a strangers account, damaging property. It just kind seemed to clash a bit with the innocent malligned they portrayed her as.

I don't know if I kind of like this movie or kinda of dislike it. it's razor thin, and everytime she calls that boy 'kiddo' it's nauseating.


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It is fiction, but if you're going to make such a big deal out of a legal term to the point of using it as the title, at least take a minute to ask a lawyer what it means.

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Then it wouldn't have a title. ; )

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Good movie as long as you ignore that anyone else would've called their attorney when they discovered the husband was alive and last in San Francisco.

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I love this movie! 17 years later and its still an enjoyable movie to watch, sadly movies like this seem to be going extinct in Hollywood.

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I love this movie! 17 years later and its still an enjoyable movie to watch, sadly movies like this seem to be going extinct in Hollywood.


I just watched it again the other day....I haven't seen it in ages...always fun to watch...

"You're going to need a bigger boat"

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