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- IMDB rating: 5.10
- IMDB votes: 12
- Release Date: 2002
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- An abused woman discovers that the dream man she married isn't who she thought he was. She and her daughter try to escape (aided by her previous boyfriend), but he pursues her relentlessly. Fearing also for the safety of her daughter, she decides that there's only one way out of the marriage: kill him. Written by Jess <jess.2000@ic24.net>
- tags: Enough, abused, woman, discovers, that, dream, married, isn't, thought, daughter, escape, aided, previous, boyfriend, pursues, relentlessly, Fearing, also, safety, decides, there's, only, marriage:, kill, Written, Jess, <jess, 2000@ic24, net>
Added: 9 February 2008
Vote: 1
Enough is enough
Domestic abuse is a subject which needs to be treated ;and the firstpart of the movie (roughly until the heroine leaves home) rings trueand Jennifer Lopez is convincing.Juliette Lewis who was so good in"Kalifornia" "Strange Days" or "From Dusk till dawn" is one more timewasted in a part unworthy of herself.
The scene when JL leaves home at night is particularly suspenseful;butthings begin to deteriorate beyond that point: the FBI investigation ishardly plausible," ;Jupiter (Fred Ward) is really the pain in the neck(how can we believe he is JL's father?);and what about the fate of JL'sbest (male) friend?.Turning the unfortunate wife into some kind offemale Rambo (thanks to an instructor)is definitely a bad idea gonewrong .
One should note that many MTV works from the eighties and the ninetiesdealt with the horrors of domestic abuse and they were often betterthan this one which sounds like a remake of " sleeping with the enemy"which was not a great movie either.
Added: 3 November 2002
Vote: 11
I am now DUMBER for having watched this peevish garbage
This, by far, is one of the most insanely idiotic films I have seen. Iheard how stupid it is and wanted to see it for myself and even knowingwhat to expect I was disappointed. Jennifer Lopez gives a patheticperformance as a thick-thigh waitress named Slim who falls in love witha successful contractor named Mitch. Mitch and Slim fall in love offcamera, then we see their wedding, then they buy a house, have a kid,and later Slim discovers that Mitch (oh no!!) has been cheating (longpause). From this point on the movie becomes an implausible idioticcircus that can only appeal to a hyper twelve year old who constantlyhas his lunch money stolen by bullies. And the film is also dividedinto chapters, such as "how they met" and "you can run." I don't knowwhat that is all about but it look awful dumb.
The characters in this movie have absolutely no chemistry with eachother and the acting is horrible. Even the mighty Juliette Lewis showsno effort. Lewis plays Slim's best friend and fellow waitress Ginny andthey interact like they know each other from the gym! Also I can't helpbut notice that Slim is a complete moron because it takes her abouteight years to discover where Mitch goes after work, in fact theevidence and clues rubbed themselves in her face until she finallycaught on. Unfortunately that's the only character development that wesee in the entire film.
This movie film has many scenes that simply do not make logical sense,but that's OK because it has a very specific target audience:eggplants. If this movie is a spoof of other spousal abuse movies, thenit's a masterpiece.
Added: 18 December 2002
Vote: 3
OK movie
Although this movie isn't really good when you first see it...it kept meinterested to see what would happen. I really don't think much of JenniferLopez as an actress i just felt like she could have done a better job!Juliette Lewis had a small role as a good friend of Lopez.Billy Campbell who plays Lopez's husband played a really really strangecharacter....I thought the ending was really cheesy with Lopez beating up onher husband. Although this story was really different and i don't recall ofa movie much like this one it's not that great of a movie!I give this movie 2 stars **!!!!
User: elboyoAdded: 1 April 2003
Vote: 8
A terrible movie
This really was one of the worst movies I've ever seen. There are massiveholes in the plot, the story line isn't fully explained, and let's faceit,Jennifer Lopez can't act at all. At least she looked hot in that movieshedid with George Clooney. This is the kind of movie that makes me wishIMDBhad a zero rating.
User: princessjeniferAdded: 23 October 2005
Vote: 8
Worthless!
*LOTS OF SPOILERS* Do you hate men? I mean, really REALLY hate men? Ifso, this movie is for you! JLo (in her worst role ever) plays Slim, awoman that has been slapped around by her husband a couple times. Doesshe make an effort to get the police involved? Does she file fordivorce? Of course not... she instead flees with her daughter, createsan assumed name, and takes boxing lessons. Why get a restraining orderwhen you can take the law into your own hands? JLo begins her training,and in a month's time, has evolved from a suburban housewife into aprizefighter. Hurray! Let the ass-kicking begin! But why stop atbeating the husband half to death, why not kill him as well? Thatsounds reasonable, right? And, to top it all off, after completing thepremeditated murder, the police just give JLo a reassuring smile anddeem her "one of the lucky ones". What a happy ending! What aridiculous piece of garbage.
User: Danny DarkoAdded: 8 February 2006
Vote: 7
half way through you'll scream "enough!"
I'll start with the tagline on the front of the DVD. "Everyone has alimit." This makes it seem like Jenny put up with abuse for a longtime.... but nope, she got hit once and that was her limit. Misleadingalready. I have many qualms with this movie but i'll just point out acouple because it's not worth watching again to pick them all out.First, J-Lo's name is Slim.... misleading again. The second half of themovie is where it gets really frustrating. Jennifer trains for whatseems to be a week or two (with a billy blanks impersonator) and issuddenly G.I. Jane. / Super Ninja / 007. She now can block cell phones,pick locks, hide in rafters / scale walls / use gadgets to find guns /beat up a large man / plant evidence to stage her master scheme. If youwant a fantasy watch the passion or this one. If you want a qualitysuspense movie, pass on it.
User: Toocool ForyouAdded: 18 November 2002
Vote: 6
More cliche's than "Glitter".
This movie is beyond awful. The only movie Jennifer Lopez was somewhatgoodin was "Selina" and that is not really a compliment. It is a story of awaitress who meets the guy of her dreams and marries him. A few years andanannoying little girl later, JLO finds out that her husband is cheating onher with some French woman and confronts him about it, but instead ofstopping the cheating he gives JLO a punch in the jaw, and acts like atotalskitzo through out the movie. One minute he is a the nice guy, next he isthis wife beating, chauvinist jerk. "OH BROTHER", can this movie getanymorecomicbooky with this man's character changing in a blink of an eye with NOEXPLANATION WHAT SO EVER, wait, it can. After she escapes the man withherdaughter, she looks for her rich father who abandoned her and her motheryears ago because her husband is after her and his daughter. She findshim,and some after-school-special crap happens.Daddy dearest feels sorry forJLOand instead of getting her some security guards and high priced lawyersfora divorce, he high tech's her up with watches that spray some sort ofmace,and have her trained in Krav Maga which she becomes an expert in about 3weeks, "GIVE ME A BREAK". Then she realizes she can't take anymore crapfrom her husband, so she sets him up by breaking into his house, gettingridof his guns and knifes, and placing letters around the house saying somecrap about him beating her, or some foolishness like that. She waitsuntilhe comes home, and the end turns into the climax of Jet Li's film, "TheOne"with all these combat moves and junk like that, and she kills him. After"Sleeping with the Enemy" oh excuse me, "Eye for an Eye" oh excuse meagain,"Enough" ended, I realized I just wasted 115 minutes of my life with thisstupid crap. JLO if you aren't going to do a proper movie, don't act. Iknow you acted before you sang, but face it, you are worse than FreddiePrinze Jr. in picking out a good script. Stick with singing anddancing.
User: Rich DunbeckAdded: 21 April 2005
Vote: 5
"Enough" Already! Just Stop the Pain!
Wow. Wowwowwow. And here I thought I'd seen it all. "Enough" is trulyan incomparable movie. And I do mean that in the worst way possible.There is nothing as bad as this movie. Not even a root canal with noNovocaine is as bad as this. In fact, the root canal is even lesspainful, and more entertaining.
There are certain things a movie needs, not necessarily to succeed, butsimply to be classified as a movie.
1. Moving Pictures. Well, "Enough" does have those to it's credit.
2. Acting. "Enough" has that but it is, unfortunately, of the worstkind.
3. Coherent Plot. You won't find that here.
4. If it is a "real-life issue" film, it must portray the issueaccurately. "Enough" ignores this rule completely.
Let's dig deeper, starting with the plot. Slim and Mitch are a happilymarried couple. Well...they're married at least. Happy? That'sdebatable. Mitch is, for lack of a better word, a slut and Slim doesn'tlike it. Mitch beats her for her disapproval. So Slim does what anywoman would (or at least the movie would have you believe so) and runsaway with their daughter. Then, Slim plots how to kill Mitch.
KILL him? What the hell ever happened to MARRIAGE COUNSELING? HELLO?!No matter what Slim says, what she plots is murder. It's downrightoverkill. I'm definitely not saying what Mitch did was OK, but killinghim is not the answer. She tries the police once, then gives up beforeeven filing her complaint. Look, no matter what this movie says, thecops will indeed listen to you if you have trouble. It's their job youdunderhead. How stupid is this woman? She convinces herself that herhusband has some half-baked cockamamie plot to make the police thinkshe's a drug-addict, and we're supposed to believe that she's the saneone? She's freaking crazy!
And who can blame her, with that kid of hers. This little girl woulddrive the most peaceful person in the world to do bad things. Ipersonally wanted to shove a sock down her throat to stop her fromspewing the insane things she says. "Tainted? Is that like painted?""I'm sick and tired of moving to death" "Can we call daddy?PLEASEPLEASE!"
Stop it stop it stop it! You win you little freak, you win! Just stoptalking!
Thank God this kid has never done any other films. Let us pray shenever will in the future.
Let's talk about the acting. It's bad. It's "MST3K/Manos:The Hands ofFate" bad. It's so bad I thought I was watching a Lifetime movie. Nowthat's bad.
Let's just get one thing straight: Jennifer Lopez is a fine actress.Look at her body of work: "Selena", "Angel Eyes", "Out Of Sight", "TheCell", even "Anaconda", they're all great movies and Lopez is great inall of them. Sure she's had some bad ones, but the good outweighs thebad greatly. A movie like "Enough" is beneath her. She has nothing towork with in this movie. The plot is ill-conceived, and the script ispathetically bad and feels like a freshmen's writing exercise. J. Loneeds a challenging film in order to shine. "Enough" is just too easyfor her, and it makes her look bad.
Bill Campbell, who you may remember from The "Rocketeer" (a whollybetter movie than "Enough") is forced to make a complete ass of himselfas Mitch. If you have ever met anyone even slightly resembling thisover-the-top caricature of a man, please tell me, because I'm fairlysure they don't exist. I might be wrong, but I severely doubt it. Mitchis like a mixture of pure steroid rage and Hank Azaria. Don't ask mewhy, but every time I see him I think he looks like Hank Azaria. Andhe's just as goofy as Azaria. He runs around spewing about crap thatmeans nothing whatsoever to the plot, and he tries to "Hulk-Up" likehe's Hulk Hogan or the Ultimate Warrior or something. He's justpathetic.
Juliette Lewis...she was better at playing a retarded woman in "TheOther Sister" than she was at playing Slim's friend in "Enough". Thereis nothing comforting in knowing that Juliette Lewis is coming to therescue when your husband is trying to kill you. She's not tooimpressive.
There are other supporting actors but they don't get a fair chance todo anything other than breathe on screen. I'd rather have watched moreof Fred Ward as Jupiter than the little monster child, but that simplywasn't to be. Dammit.
"Enough" is a film more interested in taking your money thanenlightening you to the plight of battered women. It's a film built ona foundation of lies, half-truths, and sheer insanity. "Enough" wouldhave you believe that cold-blooded murder was the answer to all yourproblems, and that it would be justified. You all know better thanthat, and so do the people who wrote this tripe. It's not even worth itto see this movie for free on television. It's a train-wreck of a filmthat insults the audience's intelligence, and promotes an agenda ofviolence and fear. If they wanted you to fear this movie, then theysucceeded. It's scary bad.
Added: 23 October 2005
Vote: 5
Enough (spoiler)
this is the summary I read about it: An abused woman (Lopez) discoversthat the dream man (Campbell) she married wasn't whom she thought hewas. She and her daughter try to escape (such as to her previousboyfriend played by Futterman), but he pursues relentlessly. Fearingalso for the safety of her daughter, she decides that there's only oneway out of the marriage: kill him.
my comment on it is this: she is a murder and this movie just says hellwe was hurt and instead of going to the Cops or the Dept. Human andFamily(may be called some thing else where you live) she goes to aunder ground railroad for women.
and even though he followed her. However two wrongs do not make a rightand should have had the Cops taken care of it.
she was a murder and then gets away with it.
after all this movie only says "if you are a woman then then get abusedby your husband and even though they get away from them you can getrevenge and murder him in Ice Cold Blooded Murder and then claim it wasto protect your self"
think about it she hides his Blades (smart) but then she took out hisphones, then starts to hit him because he did not strike first and thenafter calling names he lost his cool and after a short fight shemurders him.
so thats why I rated it 1.
now don't get me wrong, men should never hit women but killing is flatout wrong.
Added: 26 May 2002
Vote: 2
I have had Enough of J-lo's acting
It sucked!!!!!! It was one the worst movies i have ever seen right upthere with Pod People, Pearl Harbor, and Manos: Hands of Fate. This movieis less accurate of real life than X-men. The "villain" is portrayed as ahorrible person who attempts to keep his family together. It's adepressingworld when we punish people who want to keep their family from goingthrougha messy divorce, custody battles, and visitation rights. J-lo's reactionsare even worse than the plot. At least in three separate chase scenes, shelooks over her shoulder and looks back ahead with a look of amusement onherface. Perhaps she finds it funny beating up white men who support theirfamily. J-lo has sure come a long way from being a fly-girl on In LivingColor, though. She's gone from shaking her butt entertaining well-humoredindividuals, to shaking her butt entertaining weak-minded individuals. Inan interview J-lo stated that she hoped to empower women. I just hope shedoesn't empower women to beat up men who care about their wife and kidslikewhat she does in this movie.
User: rwdukeAdded: 28 May 2002
Vote: 2
Feminist Action Fantasy - Ludicrous
This is a feminist action fantasy that is ludicrous and laughable. Thetopicof domestic violence is anything but funny. But this movie is anything butserious about it. Giving young women the impression that they are tougherthan their husbands is a really bad idea. If anything domestic violencewillescalate because of this movie. And in reality we know who willlose.
User: Glenn-47Added: 28 May 2002
Vote: 2
Oh so bad!
A complete waste of $8.50 Bad acting Bad story Bad Movie. All in all awasteof time in less you like seeing J-Lo getting beat up and then beating upthebad guy! They should have called this movie "Sleeping with the enemy 2"because it was just as bad as the average follow up movie!
User: Christopher jones (thundrmi@aol.com)Added: 21 July 2002
Vote: 2
Retitle it "Screenplay from Hell"
Awful.Perhaps one of the worst movies I have seen in the last two years, "Enough"was doomed from the opening titles, mostly due to an incredibly inane,unbelievable script. One of the sure signs that a film has been poorlywritten is apparent when good actors (Lopez, Campbell) look like they cannotact. The dialogue is so shoddy that it lends no credibility to theircharacters.
Irritating sequence titles "Our Wedding," "The Conquering Hero," etc., areused to paste together badly paced events in the first half of this story,then are abandoned in the worsening second half. Major plot developments(relationships, telltale violent behavior, murders, cross-country travel)are curiously omitted.
The first sign that Lopez's hubby is wacko strangely does not happen untilthey have been married for five years. Upon his confession of an affair andrefusal to end it, the wronged wife is immediately forgiving and accepting..much more than most spouses would be for a forgotten anniversary. When hefirst assaults her, rather than showing fear and revulsion, she wipes asmall (already clotted) trickle of blood from her cheek and continues aphilosophical conversation with him about their relationship.
The plot, dialogue, editing and continuity are a mess. This was a truewaste of talent including Lopez, Campbell, Noah Wylie (who has made a badmisstep in choosing a first major screen role) and Juliet Lewis (who onceAGAIN exhibits facial expressions that convey a character with mentalillness or some emotional disturbance).
Enough already.
Added: 2 August 2002
Vote: 2
Boring and Predictable
I waited until this came to the dollar movie, and I want my $1 and 2 hoursback. Has a few cheap thrills to try and scare the audience. But, c'mon,you know it's coming. The acting was nothing special, and you wait for 11/2 hours for her to finally go through her "training" and in 1 month she'sa Navy Seal. Jackie Chan beware, there's a new girl in town. Ohyay.
User: Mike McCabe (mccabe_mike@hotmail.com)Added: 1 October 2002
Vote: 2
Not just bad, absolutely HORRIBLE!
When I watched the preview for this movie, everyone in the theater groanedwith disgust at how ridiculously bad this movie looked. My girlfriend islatino, and she really wanted to see this movie, so I agreed. I knew itwould be horrible, but I didn't want to ruin it for her.
Long story short, my girlfriend thought this movie was the worst pile ofgarbage that Hollywood has puked out in a long while. She used to kind oflike J-Lo, but now she agrees with me that she has no talent. We boththinkthat this movie wouldn't even be good if it were made by like ABC as amovieof the week.
Horrible idea, horrible story, horrible acting, horriblemessage.
Hitting a woman is wrong, and everybody knows that. I guess hitting a manis okay, if you think he deserves it. So, in poor little J-Lo's case, twowrongs make it right! Yeah J-Lo, waste your time training so that you cankick his ass! Two wrongs don't make a right, but they do make for ahorrible movie.
I have news for all of you women out there taking classes in "boxing" or"kick-boxing" or "cardio-boxing"; YOU CAN'T KICK ANYONE'S ASS!!! Yourattacker will not stand there like your trainer and say, "That's it! Giveme two more!" Showing J-Lo's ass in the gym doesn't give me theimpression that she can even defend herself, much less beat anyone up.Shewould have problems with an average woman off the street!
I guess that this movie is like a "woman's fantasy" or something, becausethere is no way in hell that this type of story could happen in real life.It's a good thing that more women don't share this fantasy, or they wouldbegetting their asses kicked up and down the street.
It is important to note that men should never hit a woman. Also, it isimportant for women to know that they should never hit a man. Violencesolves nothing. If you want to be a "strong woman", don't try to learnhowto fight. You will never be able to kick a man's ass. Be a "strongwoman",and have the strength to walk away from a bad situation.
This movie has nothing to offer anyone. It's a waste of time for anybodytowatch it.
Added: 9 October 2002
Vote: 2
Insulting sensationalistic crap
J.Lo sinks in a morass of Hollywood hogwash as a victim of spousal abusewhogets fed up and fights back. One of those flicks which makes one wonder ifeveryone in Hollywood is stupid or just thinks we're stupid, "Enough" ispure sensationalistic crap not worthy of further commentary.(D)
User: wouvinAdded: 26 December 2002
Vote: 2
Ban J-Lo!! Total garbage from the over-commercial J-LO
J-Lo is evil. First she wanted to appeal to the Latino market, tellingeverybody she came from latino areas of the bronx. Then she wanted to suckup to the African American audience, so she marries a black man, likeP-diddy when he was popular.
When she wants to suck up to the white audience, she dates Ben Affleck,because his career goes up. She made The wedding planner, a "romantic" pieceof garbage made for the female market. And now she wants to appealto(abused) women with this "how to learn to kick your husband in 3 weeks "piece of utter trash.
Believe me, she is pure evil and will stop at nothing to earnmoney.Even when doing a charity event she has a 45.000 dollarwishlist.There is proof on the internet about this. Please ban all heroutings.
Added: 4 May 2003
Vote: 2
A disaster. The worst of 2002.
What follows could spoil the 'surprises' in this movie.-----
'Enough' is the type of movie that really deserves a zero-star rating.Manyreviewers give the zero only to movies that are immoral or unethical inaddition to just being poorly made and unenjoyable. In this film, anabusedwoman is told by a lawyer that there's no way the law can help hersituation. The police tell her that they can't do anything to stop herhusband's death threats. Lopez's character says that she doesn't want togoto a battered women's shelter because it will upset her daughter too much.Instead, she takes the girl on a number of cross country trips to confuseher super-human abuser.
In addition to throwing in every possible cliche (complete with trainingmontage in run-down gym! Does any gym in the real world have medicineballsanymore?), the purpose of this movie seems to be to convince batteredwomenthat their only option is to arrange a poorly-conceived bareknuckleshowdownwith their abusers. In a word: repulsive.
Added: 25 May 2003
Vote: 2
Why?
**Warning! Plot Spoilers Ahead!**
(Not that you don't know it all anyway if you've seen atrailer)
Unbelievable. Usually if a movie makes you think that, it's a good thing. But in this case, it's absolutely not. The whole time I was watching, Icould not figure out how and why this movie got made (ok, it was JenniferLopez...but anyway). It was literally beyond my belief. You know thosepublic service announcements that tell battered women to seek help? Thiswas like a two-hour version, but with the same sixty seconds ofsense.
Questions everywhere, from plot holes to character choices to believability. Why did Mitch (Billy Campbell) so desperately want to keep JLo around? Hehad the money and probably would have won custody had they divorced. Whydid JLo try to leave at night instead of splitting while her husband was atwork? Why were there words on the screen to separate scenes? And why didthey stop about halfway through? Anyone with half a brain can follow theplot. Although I suppose anyone who might be entertained by this moviemight need those condescending hints.
Could Mitch (Billy Campbell) have possibly been any more one-dimensional? What citizen really wields as much Mitch displayed? What about JLo stealinga new identity? Hello jail-time! How did JLo become an expert fighter injust one month? And who does that anyway? I suppose that was a"Rocky"-like sequence, but her trainer's barked words were plain cheesy.
I'd try to delve further into the poor plot devices (everything), writing("It's food."), and visuals (twice JLo was pointlessly moved off screen),but it's not even worth it. The worse-than-cliche script and thehorrendously bad story don't even merit criticism.
Bottom Line: The worst movie I've seen in recent memory. 1 of 10.
Added: 27 June 2003
Vote: 2
I had "Enough" after two minutes
One of the worse movies of recent memory, "Enough" says it all in the title. Its a retread of something that didn't need to be done, and I have to stateright here and now that Jennifer Lopez is the worse actress I've ever seen,possibly worse than Madonna, and that's going pretty far down. She's anactual embarrassment on the screen and there is not one split second ofbelievability in anything she does.
Billy Campbell, Juliette Lewis, director Michael Apted and screenwriterNicolas Kazan are out of their minds if they think this movie has any valuewhatsoever. It is particularly cruel to the child in the movie, who has toendure not only stupid parents, but parents who fight and swear in front ofher.
It seems to be made by idiots, for idiots. All the scenes in the beginningare TITLED, as though you might need that in order to figure out what isgoing on.
Campbell shows his true colors right away, when he knocks on the door of ahouse he's interested in buying and explains to the owner that he had bettermove out ASAP or he'll have to contend with him for the rest of his life. So if a person has those capabilites, why would their spouse be surprisedthat he has those CAPABILITES THAT HE'S ALREADY EXHIBITED? He excuseshimself for cheating with the "I'm a man" line that's older than sin itself,and not only does he want to be able to continue to cheat, he wants wifey togrin and bear it.
Just horrible. J Low, how far can you go? 1/10.
