Enough Critic Reviews

Shamelessly exploits the horror of domestic violence for melodramatic, cheap thrills.Read the full review

It's surprising to see a director like Michael Apted and an actress like Jennifer Lopez associated with such tacky material.Read the full review

There's only one place that a movie like this one can possibly be heading, and that's to a demagogic blowout of violent, femme-power payback. Enough gets there by way of far too many tedious detours.Read the full review

Lacking a real actress, director Michael Apted is called upon to fudge the facts and make Slim's ordeal as taut as possible. He gets the job done, but the suspense scenes have a generic fright-by-numbers feel that tell us he's wearing his professional hat and knows it.Read the full review

Enough is Apted at his most commercial, and, unfortunately, his least compelling.Read the full review

Say the word, girl (Lopez), the next time you're offered one of these barrel scrapers: Enough!Read the full review

It's the most tension-producing movie out there right now -- in the best way, it's almost unbearable.Read the full review

In the end you have to wonder why the highly reputed director Michael Apted ("Coal Miner's Daughter") and the gifted screenwriter Nicholas Kazan ("Reversal of Fortune") chose to go slumming in territory like this. They must have been offered wads of money to do the dirty job.Read the full review

In one respect at least, the film's idiocy works for Lopez: Every diva needs at least one camp classic on her résumé, and with Enough, she's scored a howler on the level of "Mommie Dearest."Read the full review