gwnightscream
Jennifer Lopez, Bill Campbell, Dan Futterman and Juliette Lewis star in this 2002 drama-thriller based on the novel. Lopez (Selena) plays Slim, a waitress who finds romance with stranger, Mitch (Campbell). Soon, they move in together, get married and have a daughter, Gracie (Tessa Allen). Slim learns that Mitch isn't the charming guy she thought, when he not only cheats on her, but physically abuses her. Slim finds herself in a nightmare of desperately trying to get away from him with Gracie. Futterman (The Birdcage) plays Slim's ex-boyfriend, Joe, Lewis (Natural Born Killers) plays Slim's best friend, Ginny and Fred Ward (The Right Stuff) briefly appears as Slim's father, Jupiter. This is a pretty good film similar to "Sleeping with the Enemy" with tense and dramatic moments and Lopez & Campbell are great in it. I recommend this.
Davis P
Enough (2002) is a well written, directed, and acted movie. Jennifer Lopez is really great as Slim, the leading role, and she was perfectly cast, I loved her and everyone one else in the cast. Juliette Lewis was good in it, she got her role well and didn't disappoint. And slims abusive husband, played by Billy Campbell, was great in his antagonistic role, he truly was threatening and menacing. The high octane action sequences were well done and not too busy to follow. The dialogue and script was good, not great, but it sufficed. The movie dies a great job at making you so emotional and really root harder than ever for Jennifer and her daughter. The film addresses domestic abuse well, and it shines a light on the very serious and disturbing issue. It's great to see a positive motherly figure fighting for her and her daughter's livelihoods, and really refusing to take it anymore. The film's logo says it perfectly: everyone has a limit! The only thing I didn't care for was towards the end when slim called her friend right before the final big event, thought that was unneeded and I thought it was kinda strange. But that's my only complaint. 8/10 for Enough!
SnoopyStyle
Waitress Slim (Jennifer Lopez) falls for Mitch (Billy Campbell) and marries him. They have a child together. He's a psychopath and starts beating on her. She runs away with help from her friends. Only Mitch is relentless.This is a relentlessly Lifetime movie. There isn't any motivation other than these are psychos. There's a reason why the courtship and much of their relationship is skipped over. A careful examination is never in the cards here.Then the movie goes Rambo. Director Michael Apted is trying to find a way out. It goes into a convoluted idea of Self Defense. If she was going to kill him anyways, why would she go through all the hand to hand. It was maybe a 5 for most of the way, but the ending is way too ridiculous.
Anssi Vartiainen
A movie where an abused woman finally has had her fill and decides to do something about the situation. And for some reason this came across as overly wake and forced, as though it could never happen in real life. But I was forced to ponder, why. Because had this been a film about, say, an abused factory worker, who decides to take action against his monster of a boss, it wouldn't have been anything extraordinary. But when it's a woman that decides to become proactive, it somehow feel slightly odd and even wrong. Are we so ingrained with our conceptions about what the different genders should be like that seeing a woman take a very masculine stance on something automatically bothers us? Apparently so, or at least I was, to my complete surprise.And therein lies the strength of this film. It's brave enough to take a stance, to have a woman in a role that's usually reserved for males, to do something that's pretty much expected of from men in movies, but which is extremely rare for her gender. In that aspect it's extremely fresh, invigorating and all kinds of awesome.Unfortunately the execution of this bold idea ain't so hot, so to speak. The actors are rather good in their roles, though Jennifer Lopez still has that "I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth" quality to her no matter how much she suffers. Not a flaw really, but she wasn't a perfect fit for the role. But in the end it's the storytelling and the pacing that keep this movie from being great. The basic plot flows pretty well, but there are certain scenes that go by way too fast and some that just go on and on and on... You've all seen movies like this where the third act is really hurried and the final solution comes right out of nowhere with no explanation or forewarning. It doesn't ruin the film, really, but it is more than little aggravating.Still, I can't say that I wasted my time watching this film. It's a good concept with slightly below average execution so as a whole this is still perfectly watchable no matter how you look at it.
AD
