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Enough
Enough was a movie about the struggle of a woman trying to live her life as the fantasy of the perfect marriage. Jennifer Lopez plays Slim, who we first see in a diner just trying to make money and survive the middle economic class lifestyle. She is swept off her feet by a man who seems to be nothing less than the perfect future husband. Scenes show them happily together on sunset beaches, nothing could be better. Mitch has a lot of money and is willing to do anything with it to keep Slim happy. He bought her love and pulled her into his trap, while she had no idea what she was getting into.
When things get out of hand, Slim decides that the only way out of it all is to run away from Mitch's constant affairs and violent acts. Slim suffers the theory of the panopticon. Slim is always looking over her shoulder making sure that she isn't being watched. Mitch is constantly on her trail and Slim knows this. She takes her child and runs away to a new place whenever she feels as though Mitch is getting near. Mitch is afraid of being known as an abusive, cheating husband, so he does anything to keep Slim from talking to friends and family about the problems. At the same time, Slim will do anything to keep Mitch away from her and keep her child safe.
The movie starts with Slim being a totally dependent woman. She needed guidance and a man in her life to fix things and show her a better living standard. By the end of the movie, Slim's hair is shorter giving her a more masculine look; she learns self defense techniques so that she doesn't have to run from Mitch anymore. She transforms from the weak and dependent into the deadly and independent woman.

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More Than Enough ... In Fact, Way Too Much
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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I want a rematch.
Boy howdy, the fems are getting pretty rough these days. I suppose after generations of being dominated by the male sub-species that once the ladies decided to strike back they meant just that: strike back. A perfect example of estrogen TNT in a can is Jennifer Lopez swingin', sweatin', and kickin' in ENOUGH.

Let's face it, we all know where ENOUGH is headed. J-Lo plays a greasy spoon waitress (yeah, like that's believable) who happens to fall for a smooth-talking swell (Bill Campbell) who turns out not to be the nicest guy on the block. Er, the planet. And when J-Lo confronts Hubby about his flagrant infidelity, Hubby responds with some fisticuffs and then refuses to let his wife out of the marriage. Granted, Campbell is ultra-creepy to watch. . .he's so revolting and disgusting that even my dog knew he was going to get the ultimate comeuppance at the end of this flick.

With the help of friends, J-Lo and young daughter flee and relocate thousands of miles away, yet Hubby is relentless in his pursuit. Once it becomes obvious that a custody showdown is inevitable, J-Lo does the only logical thing: She enlists the aid of a martial arts dude and learns how to fight like a tiger. Tigress? Then, it's back to California to sneak into Hubby's new flat and extract a pound of posterior. And, of course, predictability reigns supreme as the film rolls to its conclusion.

I've had the luxury of viewing this film with other ladies, and their reaction has been somewhat universal. Not a one of them would have put up with the guff J-Lo did; in fact, the first time a punch was thrown Hubby would have first been looking at the floor to find his mountain oysters, just before he would feel the piercing pain of buckshot. But, perhaps justice is swifer in my neck of the woods. Anyway, in ENOUGH J-Lo kind of blindsides her husband during their kung fu match. Ain't fair. I demand a best two-out-of-three.
--D. Mikels