Enough
Metascore
25 out of 100

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 32 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 32
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 32
  3. Negative: 22 out of 32
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  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    38
    It's surprising to see a director like Michael Apted and an actress like Jennifer Lopez associated with such tacky material.
  2. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Foreman
    38
    One of those "Lifetime"-esque horror stories of evil husbands in the suburbs.
  3. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Claudia Puig
    38
    Too much. The hackneyed story about an affluent damsel in distress who decides to fight her bully of a husband is simply too overdone.
  4. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Renee Graham
    38
    Shamelessly exploits the horror of domestic violence for melodramatic, cheap thrills.
  5. The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    Reviewed by: Rick Groen
    38
    When a movie ostensibly on a serious subject is so God-awful silly, is it impossible to be offended, or impossible not to be?
  6. Baltimore Sun
    Reviewed by: Michael Sragow
    38
    Manipulates the audience.
  7. Portland Oregonian
    Reviewed by: Kim Morgan
    33
    Taking the film as a thriller, it's neither exciting nor scary, hampered by a middle that plays much too long.
  8. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    30
    There's some fun to be had in seeing two of TV's resident sweetie pies, Campbell and ER's Noah Wyle, play unrepentant sons of bitches, but it's not enough.
  9. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    30
    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.
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  10. New Times (L.A.)
    Reviewed by: Luke Y. Thompson
    30
    You probably saw this film the last time around, when it was called "Sleeping With the Enemy." This one merely adds a better car chase and more ass-kicking.
  11. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Connie Ogle
    25
    It's a cannibalization of "Sleeping With the Enemy," a not-so-good Julia Roberts film, with a ridiculous female-empowerment subtext and a relentlessly stupid script that goes nowhere you can't predict before the opening credits roll.
  12. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jack Mathews
    25
    This particular script is deplorable. It's a pure cribbing of Ron Bass' screenplay for "Sleeping With the Enemy," which was no prize itself.
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  13. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Paula Nechak
    25
    So poorly constructed and so elementally banal that it's a shock the script was written by the same guy (Nicholas Kazan) who wrote such taut thrillers as "At Close Range" and "Reversal of Fortune."
  14. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: David Grove
    20
    Enough is a very bad film and so was “Sleeping with the Enemy,” but at least that film had a first act.
  15. Rolling Stone
    Reviewed by: Peter Travers
    20
    Say the word, girl (Lopez), the next time you're offered one of these barrel scrapers: Enough!
  16. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Paul Malcolm
    10
    Mechanical revenge fantasy that skirts every serious issue it raises along a slick, cynical trajectory.
  17. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Nathan Rabin
    10
    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."
  18. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Jan Stuart
    10
    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.
  19. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Charles Taylor
    0
    I think you'd have to be comatose or mentally incompetent not to find Enough ludicrous.
  20. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: Peter Rainer
    0
    Clumsy, obvious, preposterous, the movie will likely set the cause of woman warriors back decades.
  21. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Desson Thomson
    0
    In terms of actual social conscience, the movie gets a demagogic, rabble-rousing F. It also gets a failed grade for honest writing.
  22. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Staff (Not Credited)
    0
    More interested in standard thriller effects than in giving us human beings to contend with. The audience I saw this with seemed to want to feel insulted, and this piece of crap delivered.

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User Score
5.6 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 41 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 24
  3. Negative: 9 out of 24
  1. MetalMan95
    3
    There was some entertainment had here. But this movie suffers from horrible dialogue and rushed setup. When you are supposed to feel bad for Lopez in the beginning, her and her husband are putting out almost cringe inducing dialogue and it was bad enough, but then they had to rush the setup. There is little character development and its pretty hard to feel bad for anyone. but it does get points for solid acting and pretty good action.… Full Review »
  2. KarthikBS
    10
    It is an excellent thriller. A lesson to all the abusive husbands out there.
  3. AN
    5
    This is a movie but on this subject the audience can not afford to think this is the way it go i the real world. I know it is for entertainment but again the subject is way to serious to give all these false senarios. Bottom line she would stand a 50/50 chance of being incarcerated! Yes. It is not always ruled as self defense. Do your research with National organizations on this subject PLEASE.… Full Review »
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