Enough 2002

Critics score:
22 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Bruce Newman, San Jose Mercury News: It's his brazenness -- and Campbell's utterly creepy performance -- that keeps the story revved up, even when you feel it's being spelled out for you in Crayola. Read more

Renee Graham, Boston Globe: Shamelessly exploits the horror of domestic violence for melodramatic, cheap thrills. Read more

John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: The movie does some traveling of its own: from sort of stupid to simply ludicrous. Read more

Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: When it comes to making bad movies, for Lopez, Enough is enough. Read more

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: It's a loathsome movie, it really is and it makes absolutely no sense. Read more

Susan Stark, Detroit News: What begins as a seemingly brainless, bubbly romantic comedy becomes a cliche-drenched melodrama by mid-film and, by film's end, a feminist action fantasy. Read more

Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: Despite a story that starts off convincingly, this movie turns into melodramatic, revenge-crazy Hollywood mush. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: A jarring thriller packed to the gills with cheap shocks. Read more

Tom Keogh, Seattle Times: If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, Enough just added another lane. Read more

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Read more

Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: Rivals Showgirls and old Ed Wood movies from the 1950s in the so-bad-it's-fun category. Read more

Paul Clinton (CNN.com), CNN.com: At best, this should have been a bad made-for-TV movie. Read more

Steven Rosen, Denver Post: You wonder why Enough wasn't just a music video rather than a full-length movie. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: It's really a bogeyman horror film in sociological drag -- I Know You Married an Abusive Creep Last Summer. Read more

Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: As gaudy and manipulative entertainments go, there's just not enough in Enough. Read more

Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: Spousal abuse is a major problem in contemporary society, but the film reduces this domestic tragedy to florid melodrama. Read more

Paul Malcolm, L.A. Weekly: A very mechanical revenge fantasy that skirts every serious issue it raises along a slick, cynical trajectory. Read more

Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture: Clumsy, obvious, preposterous, the movie will likely set the cause of woman warriors back decades. Read more

Rex Reed, New York Observer: Enough trivializes an important crisis, reduces it to an almost comic embarrassment. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: This is a by-the-numbers thriller that doesn't even succeed on the most basic, visceral level. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: A nasty item masquerading as a feminist revenge picture. Read more

Charles Taylor, Salon.com: It appears to have been made by people to whom the idea of narrative logic or cohesion is an entirely foreign concept. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: It's the most tension-producing movie out there right now -- in the best way, it's almost unbearable. Read more

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: The picture should really have been titled Uncle, because that's what many men will feel like crying out after enduring this estrogen-fuelled freakout. Read more

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Claudia Puig, USA Today: The hackneyed story about an affluent damsel in distress who decides to fight her bully of a husband is simply too overdone. Read more

Robert Koehler, Variety: Read more

Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: Works as long as it faces the horror of extreme male privilege, but dissipates quickly once Lopez begins over-preparing for a face-off with hand-to-hand combat training and calibrated techno-gadgetry. Read more