In 1997, Morgan Freeman and Ashley Judd teamed up for a gritty thriller that fared unremarkably with critics and at the box office, and most of us thought that would be the end of that. Fast forward five years, though, and High Crimes saw the dynamic duo repeating history with remarkably similar results.
Gary Fleder’s Kiss the Girls was first out of the gate, netting $60 million at the box office and scoring a middling 33 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. Proving that even the hugely accomplished central pairing aren’t capable of elevating mediocrity based on their names alone, High Crimes topped out at $64 million from its theatrical run, replete with an eerie 30 percent rating on the aggregation site.