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Summary: More Than Enough ... In Fact, Way Too Much
Review: Yet another movie that starts with an intriguing, compelling premise and then veers off-course into insipid melodrama. Jennifer Lopez stars as a woman who meets an apparent Prince Charming (Billy Campbell); the couple are soon wed and start a family. Everything appears to be headed towards "Happily Ever After" until Lopez discovers that hubby has a mistress on the side. When confronted, Campbell peels off his mask and reveals himself to be, in fact, a chauvinistic wife-beater. Lopez resolves to take their daughter and run ... and it's at this point that the movie breaks down, with Campbell persuing his fleeing wife with all the mechanized determination of The Terminator. The plot gets steadily cornier, with the down-and-out Lopez luckily getting financial help from her estranged multimillionaire father (wouldn't it be great if all abused wives just happened to have untapped resources like that?), and then receiving the training necessary to - literally - become a female Terminator herself, after which she engages Campbell in a brutal fight-to-the-death. (I'll let you guess who wins.)The two leads give interesting performances up until the time the script requires their characters to turn cartoonish, and they are given able support by Juliette Lewis as Lopez's best friend. The wonderful and capable Dan Futterman is pretty much wasted in the thankless role of Lopez's loyal former beau. The best performance in the film is given by Noah Wyle, playing against type as a hot-tempered renegade bad cop with a very bad case of road rage; it would be interesting to see Wyle play this type of role again, but in a better film. As satisfying as it might be to see an abusive brute get back better than he dished out, "Enough" is ultimately way too incredible and far-fetched to deliver genuine thrills.
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Summary: Enough bad J.Lo movies already!
Review: Jennifer Lopez gets married. Jennifer Lopez gets beat. Jennifer Lopez gets revenge. If it sounds like a tv movie, you're on the right track. Domestic abuse is by no means an ordinary subject, but the filmmakers decided on the generic route and the result is two overdrawn hours of clichés. There's nothing to expound on because you already know the formula; Slim (Lopez) and Mitch (Billy Campbell) - nice names - are in love, then he starts using her face for boxing practice. She decides she's had *enough* and, with their daughter in tow, makes a run for it. Slim's not going to take this lying down though, and she learns some hybrid of boxing and karate to combat his abuse. Watch out, Mitch...... So many good things could have come from this film and yet it amounts to little more than two hours worth of dead brain cells. Regardless of her personal life, Jennifer Lopez is a decent actress, given a strong script. As there is none, she walks through the film, looking doe-eyed at times, tough at others, but mostly like she'd rather be making a music video. I actually enjoyed Billy Campbell's departure from his usual cheeky, nice guy role, but again, stretching a wife beater (no pun intended) around him doesn't exactly create character. And that's the problem with this farce of a film; there's no complexity to any character. Noah Wylie makes a brief appearance, coming and going whenever he pleases. So, some unanswered questions the filmmakers never bothered posing. Is it a drama, is it a thriller, is it a crime film? Who cares?! Slim isn't even interesting enough to elicit our empathy. Why was this film made? Certainly not for profit because it managed a negative dent at the box office. Nor were the writers much concerned about drawing out the emotional and physical strengths and weaknesses of women who suffer domestic violence. The heart of the story lies here; unfortunately, paychecks and slick production design got more attention, and we've all had enough of that.
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Summary: A Great CAMP CLASSIC, A New Special Edition!
Review: As if idiot-empowerment odyssey "Enough" wasn't already pompous, ridiculous, over-acted, horribly written, and confusing to the max... now they've gone and come out with a SE version of this low-grossing, low-brow film. Why, you ask? It's a great work of art, dontcha know! As a testement to this, experience for yourself the crusty Director/Writer commentary, which is almost as hilarious as the actual film. These guys seem to live in some kind of fantasy world where the film's events all make sense and their work is Oscar-worthy. BONUS: Listen for those oh-so-subtle remarks from two funny old white men who are clearly out of touch with the world & time they live in. Also keep an ear open for Hack 1 & Hack 2 telling us all how "realistic," "gritty," and "powerful" their film is! THIS STUFF IS PRICELESS! J-Low even lets us in on a little insight into why she wanted to do the film: "It's like a female version of ROCKY!" Ladies and gentlemen.... has CAMP ever been better than this?
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Summary: boring
Review: This movie was boring, and predictable, don't waste your hard earned money on this flick.
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Summary: Brilliant!
Review: I am one of those people who only watches comedies and romantic-comedies, but my sister dragged me to this movie (even though im a huge j.lo fan, i wasn't thrilled). But i thought the movie was absolutely briliant! it was very suspenseful (atleast for me)and i like movies where everything kinda adds up at the end. stuff like this happens everyday, husbands beating their wives, but the wives are too scared to leave. I always wondered why they were too scared to leave home and get help, but in this movie i realized that a restraining order won't stop someone from doing something to you. I thought she went a little too far at the end,but i guess it was either him or her. i think this movie is great to have in your collection, and i am still trying to figure out why those stupid movie critics gave it such a bad rep.
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Summary: Enough of J-Lo's acting
Review: Considering how this was advertised as a serious role-it failed to measure up. I guess J-Lo's paycheck was so big- there was not enough money to pay a decent writer. So all abused women should take Karate and learn to fight back! Hmmm this is an interesting concept. TOO bad this sound message did not come across due to the insanity of the script, and the crappy dialouge Give up acting J-Lo and focus on your other talents.
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Summary: Good Enough for Me!
Review: This film was pretty good...I liked the action, and the overall story of the film...Jennifer Lopez took this part well and the others that made up the cast did an excellent job...you felt as though you wanted to pull for Lopez's character...Slim! The only reason that this gets 4 stars is because some of the material is far fetched...who is going to break into a madman's house, with time enough to come up with all these ideas and such in order to get back at him??? Not me!! Good movie though...keeps you entertained.
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Summary: Enough (2002)
Review: I think this is my favorite J. Lo movie, besides The Cell. J. Lo has always been a terrific actress, but this time, she gives, what I think, an Oscar-winning performance. J. Lo stars as Slim, a miserable waitress, who meets Mitch Hiller (played by BILLY CAMPBELL), a seemingly nice guy, who Slim dates and then marries. The two begin their happy life together by moving into a beautiful house. Just when they thought the were already happy, Slim gives birth to Mitch's daughter, Gracie. They couldn't be any happier. They are totally in love. They live in a beautiful house. They have an adorable, charming little daughter. Who could ask for more? Then, one night, Slim finds out that Mitch is having an affair. After yelling at him for what he did, Mitch punhes Slim in the face. This shows Slim a dark, evil side of Mitch. Ginny (played by JULIETTE LOUIS), Slim's best friend from the diner, and Joe (played by DAN FUTTERMAN), Slim's ex-boyfriend, help Slim get out. She and Gracie move to Chicago, where Joe lives. But they are not safe their. Instead, they go to a shelter, until they have enough money to buy a house. Slim cuts her hair and creates an alias for herself. Just when you thought Slim and Gracie were safe, Mitch finds out where they are living. By this time, Slim has had enough. She has Ginny take Gracie, while Slim trains to kick the sh*t of Mitch. This is a movie that should not be ignored, by anyone, even if you are not a J. LO fan. This a movie that will keep you on the edge of your seat from beginning to end.
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Summary: Silly and Dangerous
Review: This might be a feel-good story where the victim rises up and defeats the victimizer, but that's how women get killed in the real world. Abuse is complex, as is the process of extricating one's self from such a relationship. If simply working out and practicing martial arts for 1 month would solve the problem of domestic abuse, we wouldn't have domestic abuse. As Lopez herself conceded, the most difficult part of her physical transformation was just LOOKING like she could beat up her husband, -- muchless do it. People see these things in movies and mistake it for reality, and in this case it could cost someone somewhere dearly. This movie is a cartoon.
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Summary: Contrived
Review: "Enough" is nothing more than a Lifetime original movie masquerading as a big screen drama. Instead of exploring the complicated and tragic dynamics behind an abusive marriage, "Enough" simply creates a cartoonishly evil villian and a damsel in distress for the audience to root for. Charismatic Jennifer Lopez, talented Juliette Lewis, and dashing Billy Campbell all deserve better material.
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