Enough

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Summary: slick, conventional thriller (spoilers)
Review: **1/2 In typical Hollywood fashion, "Enough" takes a serious social issue - spousal abuse - and uses it as the pretext for a run-of-the-mill damsel-in-distress thriller. However, in keeping with our post-modern, feminist sensibilities, this heroine, is, as it turns out, as mad as hell and decides she's not going to take it anymore. She is no passive victim of her circumstances like her earlier imperiled movie ingénue sisters, but rather a gutsy fighter who takes a proactive role in determining her own fate and the fate of her daughter. Jennifer Lopez plays "Slim," a woman who starts out looking for a man who will "protect" her, but who, after she finds one (the wrong one), winds up kicking that slimy-assed dude's butt all around his swank, multimillion-dollar Marina home before she's through with him.

Your enjoyment of this film will be pretty much predicated on how willing you are to overlook the predictability and implausibility of much of the plotting. The film starts off well with an impressive twist involving Slim's initial meeting with the man, Mitch, who will quickly become both her husband and her stalker. Yet, Mitch's conversion from doting lover to psychotic wife abuser is so abrupt and so poorly presaged by any actions or statements on his part that we are forced to question the credibility of pretty much everything else that follows. Moreover, for a woman-on-the-run who is supposedly so adept at eluding her pursuer, Slim makes some pretty monumental blunders all the way through the story. Particularly inexplicable is her decision to allow her little daughter to phone Mitch, an action that leads him and his goons in no time at all to the upper Michigan community where the two of them have been hitherto successfully hiding. I also wonder why characters in movies, after they have knocked the villain senseless and he lies bleeding on the floor, always seem to turn their backs on him, even though we, in the audience, know full well that he will miraculously arise, Phoenix-like, from the ashes, to continue his murderous assault. The heroine in "Wait Until Dark" at least had her blindness as justification for her doing that. What is Slim's excuse? (By the way, don't any of these characters ever go to the movies? If they did, they would eliminate most, if not all, of their lapses into stupidity).

However, given its many flaws, "Enough" turns out to be pretty effective entertainment within the prescribed limits of its genre. Although she still isn't much of an actress, Jennifer Lopez manages to elicit the audience's empathy thanks primarily to the aura of immense likeability she exudes. In fact, it's hard not to end up rooting for a character caught up in the type of worm-turning vengeance we have going on here. Director Michael Apted knows how to direct a suspense scene for maximum effectiveness, and cinematographer Rogier Stoffers has done a beautiful job capturing the multi-colored splendors of the film's many and varied locations. The attractive look of the film is alone worth the price of admission.

Rating:
Summary: BEST BEST MOVIE
Review: this was the best movie in the world...great acting...good storyline...and it was the best I've seen in a long time!!!

Rating:
Summary: Animal Instinct
Review: I rather enjoyed the movie. the beginning was a little slow, but from then on it was captivating. Some scenes made your jaw drop with amazement and others just made you feel sorry for "Slim". Jennifer Lopez played a very good role. She is every battered woman's role model. It took her a while to realize what she needed to do. For one, her husband had tons of money and she had none. She had no education, no skills, and no one to turn to for any real help. Once, she found out what it was going to take to get what she wanted, nothing could stop her. I think the way she did it was a little extreme because I have never been battered, but in the end she got what she wanted. I'm not sure if this would actually work in the real world, but if a woman is at her wits end, she will do anything to protect herself and her child.

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Summary: Not worth it...
Review: This movie was terrible. Not even worth one star, if you ask me. I only went to see it because I'm utterly obsessed with Noah Wyle (who's only in a few scenes, SO DISSAPOINTING!).

Here's the deal though....this movie has an ok premise. There are points in the movie where I was like, "gee, this could be a good movie." The thing is, they take every last LITTLE plot point and they serve it to you like a smack over the head with a 2 x 4. Nothing at ALL is left to suspense or to the imagination.

I read in the Chicago Sun Times that this movie completely parallel's Julia Robert's 'Sleeping with the Enemy' and that all the details are like completely the same. Maybe SWTE is a better movie...

For what it's worth though, save your money and DON'T see this movie unless you like really tacky, cliche, all-too-long movies.

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Summary: Best Ever!!
Review: This is a great action/drama flick!!Everyone should see it!
Jennifer Lopez does a wonderful job portraying her character!!
5 STARS!!!:OP

Rating:
Summary: it was okay
Review: Jennifer Lopez is one of my favorite actresses, so I was excited to go see it. Aside from a brutal scene near the end of the movie that was just a little too violent and disturbing for my liking, I would say that it was worth the money I paid to see it. Plus, it did have a very sweet ending. "Enough" does indeed have a lot of cliche elements, but I guess you can be the judge of whether or not that's the kind of thing you can do with. This film tells the story of Slim, a typical single waitress who meets and supposedly falls in love with a customer, Mitch. We don't see them fall in love for the first time--all we see is a flash forward to their wedding day, and then all of a sudden, they have a baby girl, big house, and a seemingly "picture perfect" life with their new family. Slim is in her glory until she discovers that Mitch is having affairs. Not willing to give Slim up, Mitch basically backs her in a corner and threatens her into constantly cowering at his feet. Later, we see Slim take her daughter Gracie and flee from him. No matter where she goes, Mitch always manages to track her down. After a long series of such wild goose chases, Slim realizes she can't live like this anymore, so she gets some training from a martial arts instructor and takes her first true stand against the abusive man. Overall, it's an ok movie. I do, however, think that Mitch's character was overdone--I mean, come on! There are indeed some abusive husbands out there, but when you hear the things that Mitch says to Slim throughout the movie, you can't help laughing because it's just so ridiculous. Right or wrong, that's just not how cheating husbands are. Somehow, I can't see any guy, sane or unsane, magically tracking his wife down no matter where she is or how far she goes. Whether he's knocking down a hotel room door, breaking into their house, or deactiving all of Slim's credit cards, he's never far away. Basically, he's a sick and psychotic man, and I have a hard time believing that he was able to hide that for the first few years of the marriage and make Slim believe that he was perfect. Slim's not a dopey or clueless character, so how could she be oblivious to the fact that there was something horribly wrong with this guy? How did he hide it up until the point when their little daughter was about 3 or 4 years old? The people in the theater were laughing at Mitch's ludacris comments and behaviors, and I could see why. In that respect, the character could have been made a little more realistic. However, Jennifer Lopez's performance is incredible. She really is a talented actress. Her character was very believable in this movie, and she helped her character finally prove herself as a loving and decent person who literally only did what she had to do to Mitch, and not a speck more. Tessa Allen, the little girl who plays the daughter Gracie, is very cute and not like one of those annoying little devils that they get in some movies. Overall, it's a good movie with a few flaws, but definitely worth the admission price to go for a night out at the movies.

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Summary: A Great Movie For Women
Review: Jennifer Lopez played an excellent part in the movie. It was a classic storyline of how the husband wanted the wife but the wife didn't want his abusive ways. She runs and hides but for some reason can't stay safe for too long. Soon she takes self defense and I personally think that should show that women should take a stand and take self defense because you never know who or what's coming around.

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Summary: Great Performance
Review: Jennifer Lopez's latest movie ENOUGH is a must see movie. She plays the role of Slim, a woman who meets Mr. Wonderful and everything in her life seems to be perfect. Then she finds out her husband is having an affair with another woman, and she takes a stand. She won't put up with it. The relationship becomes abusive and violent, so with the help of her friends, she escapes with her daughter. As they find different places to live, she realizes she can't keep running because he always has a way of finding her. In the end she decides to take action and protect herself, becoming the aggressor. ENOUGH has a talented cast including Jennifer Lopez, Juliette Lewis, Noah Wylie and more. Overall they all turn in commanding performances, this movie will leave you on the edge of your seat wondering what happens next. This is a must see movie, go out and see it!

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Summary: Pleasant surprise
Review: I was pleasantly surprised to see what a good job Jennifer Lopez did in this movie. Plus, the little girl was totally incredible! Seeing Billy Campbell playing such a bad guy was a little difficult for me because I like him so much, but he was pretty convincing!
All in all, I really enjoyed this movie; much more than I thought I would.

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Summary: Insulting, ridiculous and just plain bad
Review: Slim thought she had it all, a loving spouse, a beautiful daughter and a wonderful home, that is until she discovers her husband's true nature. A determined and ruthless man, Mitch believes that since he provides for the family, he alone makes the rules around the house, and Slim should just play the role of an obedient wife. When the relationship becomes abusive and violent, she finally chose to leave him. Taking little Gracie with her, Slim quickly found herself in a cat and mouse game as Mitch pursued her relentlessly everywhere she went. Tired of running and being afraid for her safety constantly, she decided to fight back and be the aggressor this time.

Well, against my better judgement I went to watch Enough anyway, and after sitting through 2 hours of hackneyed and preposterous story, I can safely say that this is one of the worst movies of 2002. The script was poorly written, the characters were flat and undeveloped, the acting was horrid and the dialogues were terrible. The scary thing is that Enough actually featured a talented cast, with Juliette Lewis, Noah Wyle and yes, even Jennifer Lopez, yet none of them were watchable, the performances were uninspiring and boring.

Let's face it, domestic thrillers have been done numerous times before, unfortunately Enough didn't do anything new to set itself apart from the others in the same genre. The direction was uneven, and the pacing was jerky, all of the obligatory gimmicks in a suspence movie were there. ...