Review of High Crimes

High Crimes (2002)
Garbage from hell. (With spoilers)
17 April 2002
Warning: Spoilers
***SPOILERS*** ***SPOILERS*** OK, so Ashley Judd is this high-powered attorney, right? (So, yeah, already we've lost all plausibility. In one scene, she uses threatening legal jargon while wearing a ball gown. It's that kind of movie.)

Anyway, she finds out that her husband is a) a fugitive; b) a former Marine; c) a suspected murderer; and d) someone who didn't give her his real name or life story from the time they met. I'm guessing most people would ask for a divorce. Certainly, if I were Ashley Judd's attorney in this movie, I'd have told her to dump the b**tard, even if he did look like Jim Caviezel.

Unfortunately, Ashley acts as her own attorney, so she doesn't have anyone around to give her any good legal advice. (Is she acting as her own agent? Someone's not giving her good career advice, either, if she thought it was a good idea to appear in this.)

Morgan Freeman's in this movie, but that doesn't save it. Nor does the "Duh, I told you to divorce the guy before all this crap happened ..." surprise ending.

Of course, you don't have to listen to me. My friend I was with loved this movie, while I was shaking my hands at the screen, calling Ashley Judd's character stupid.
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