Enough

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=80 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF" bgproperties="fixed" background="04000500dvldtc.png"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" ><B>Reel Movie Critic.com</B></FONT><B>     |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Reel Movie Critic.com"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div>                                                   </div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="041d2c00dvldtc.png"> <div> <B>Home Pages for</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.reelmoviecritic.com/index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.reelmoviecritic.com/index.htm"><U><B>Movies</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>      </B><A HREF="http://www.newbookdiscounts.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.newbookdiscounts.com/"><U><B>Books</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>            </B><A HREF="http://www.reelmoviecritic.com/travelforless/id364.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.reelmoviecritic.com/travelfor"><U><B>Travel</B></U></A></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>                   </B><A HREF="http://www.reelmoviecritic.com/travelforless/id361.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.reelmoviecritic.com/travelfor"><U><B>Great Web Sites</B></U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=400 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> Enough</div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="501" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 146 WIDTH="495"><div> <IMG SRC="1247618c0.jpg" border=0 width="97" height="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00006HAWN/reelmoviecriticc">Enough</A>  </div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="579" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 23 WIDTH="575"><div> Enough</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="575"><div> 2.5 Stars </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 23 WIDTH="575"><div> Rating</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 ><NOBR><div> PG-13 for intense scenes of domestic violence, some sensuality and language</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="575"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="19" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="575" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 20 WIDTH="575"><div> <B>Director</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="575"><div> Michael Apted</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="575"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="19" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="575" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 20 WIDTH="575"><div> <B>It's never too late</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="575"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="19" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="575" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 20 WIDTH="575"><div> <B>Starring</B></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="579" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="575"><div> Jennifer Lopez</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="575"><div> Billy Campbell</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="575"><div> Juliette Lewis</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="575"><div> Tessa Allen</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="575"><div> Noah Wyle</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="575"><div> Dan Futterman</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> "Enough" depicts what many women would like to do about spousal abuse. For a woman who has been slapped around, punched and verbally abused, this might be a four star film because it captures the emotion of moving out of the role of a victim and getting even. For those of us without that level of emotional attachment to the subject, the movie is seen for what it is, an upgraded version of a made for cable film on the Lifetime Movie Network. </div> <bR> <div> Slim (Jennifer Lopez) is a waitress, working with her buddy Ginny (Juliette Lewis) in a local diner. When Robbie (Noah Wyle) is making progress with a pick-up routine, Mitch (Billy Campbell) who is sitting in the next booth, comes to her rescue. We are told "how they met" and in quick succession, they are married, buy the house of their dreams, and have a baby who is now about four years old. Mitch has been a player all the time, but when Slim challenges Mitch on his adultery, he tells her, "I make the money, so I make the rules," accompanied initially by a slap and then a punch that knocks her to the floor. </div> <bR> <div> Slim eventually decides to move out and leaves town, trying to avoid men that Mitch has sent to find her. With the help of spousal support groups and her estranged father, she starts to rebuild her life. Of course, eventually, Mitch finds her and he is inclined to get her out of his life and gain full custody of their child Gracie (Tessa Allen), without a custody hearing. Mitch is the kind of guy who believes that "If I can't have you, then nobody can."  When Slim realizes that the law is on the side of the abuser, she decides to do unto others before they do unto her, which in this case means kill him before he kills her. </div> <bR> <div> She goes into training for 30 days and becomes a martial arts expert in the time she has before the custody hearing. Once she comes out into the open and Mitch knows her whereabouts, he can have his goons make her disappear, permanently. The trailer tells you most of the story, so there's no surprise at the hand to hand combat at the end between Slim and Mitch.</div> <bR> <div> The film missed a great opportunity to say something more than women should file police reports for spousal abuse and that "enough" </div> <div> should come sooner rather than later. Both "Enough" and "Insomnia," which came out the same day, deal with serious moral and social issues. "Insomnia" gives you something to think about while you are being entertained and "Enough" has many of its events staged to the point of being almost comical. </div> <bR> <div> The easy knock on the film is that the story is predictable. More serious criticism poses that Mitch is a bad guy with no redeeming values, against Slim who becomes a person who can kill with her hands and feet in 30 days, as if she were a Green Beret or Navy Seal with more than a year of military training. When she's ready to go one on one with Mitch to take him out, as much as you want to buy into the reality of what is happening, it's simply not credible.  </div> <bR> <div> Were it not for the acting by a likable cast, in a polished production, "Enough" would have been a candidate for a movie that skips a theatrical release and goes straight to video. The story of "enough" is one that is still waiting to be told.</div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="621" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="617"><div> George O. Singleton  © 2002</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="617"><div> <A HREF="mailto:Reelmoviec@aol.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:Reelmoviec@aol.com"><U><U>Reelmoviec@aol.com</U></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>