Enough
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: May 24, 2002 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
25
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 32 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
6
Negative:
22
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
It's the most tension-producing movie out there right now -- in the best way, it's almost unbearable. Read full review
70
Washington PostAnn Hornaday
Even the most hard-hearted critic will let out a sisterhood-is-powerful whoop. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleKimberley Jones
The senseless violence of a Jean-Claude Van Dammer, no point to that, but this, this has purpose. This is an ass-kicking a girl can get into. So why do I feel like crying mea culpa? Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
One of those movies that starts like a house afire, catches you firmly in its narrative grip and then suddenly blows itself out, not really going out with a whimper but with a big, bad, ludicrous bang. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
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 full review
50
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
Enough is Apted at his most commercial, and, unfortunately, his least compelling. Read full review
50
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
Delivers the kind of vengeance fantasy women unhappy with their husbands may want: Vicarious satisfaction, however clumsily delivered, is better than no satisfaction at all. Just be sure to stop by the lobotomy clinic en route to the theater. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
At this point in her career, Lopez can clearly bend the universe -- but no amount of bending can make Enough anything more than formulaic. Read full review
40
Village VoiceMichael Atkinson
Campbell is the movie's primary power source. His steely gaze and overbearing quietude are forever tainted; "Once and Again" doesn't stand a chance in Lifetime reruns. Read full review
40
VarietyRobert Koehler
The latest model in the recent spate of underwhelming female star vehicles, Enough, a thriller detailing how a good wife gets back at an evil, possessive husband, is never provocative enough to generate strong emotional response. Read full review
38
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
It's surprising to see a director like Michael Apted and an actress like Jennifer Lopez associated with such tacky material. Read full review
38
USA TodayClaudia Puig
Too much. The hackneyed story about an affluent damsel in distress who decides to fight her bully of a husband is simply too overdone. Read full review
38
New York PostJonathan Foreman
One of those "Lifetime"-esque horror stories of evil husbands in the suburbs. Read full review
38
Baltimore SunMichael Sragow
Manipulates the audience. Read full review
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick Groen
When a movie ostensibly on a serious subject is so God-awful silly, is it impossible to be offended, or impossible not to be? Read full review
38
Boston GlobeRenee Graham
Shamelessly exploits the horror of domestic violence for melodramatic, cheap thrills. Read full review
33
Portland OregonianKim Morgan
Taking the film as a thriller, it's neither exciting nor scary, hampered by a middle that plays much too long. Read full review
30
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
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. Read full review
30
New Times (L.A.)Luke Y. Thompson
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. Read full review
30
The New York TimesStephen Holden
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.
25
Miami HeraldConnie Ogle
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. Read full review
25
Seattle Post-IntelligencerPaula Nechak
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." Read full review
25
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
This particular script is deplorable. It's a pure cribbing of Ron Bass' screenplay for "Sleeping With the Enemy," which was no prize itself.
20
Rolling StonePeter Travers
Say the word, girl (Lopez), the next time you're offered one of these barrel scrapers: Enough! Read full review
20
Film ThreatDavid Grove
Enough is a very bad film and so was “Sleeping with the Enemy,” but at least that film had a first act. Read full review
10
L.A. WeeklyPaul Malcolm
Mechanical revenge fantasy that skirts every serious issue it raises along a slick, cynical trajectory. Read full review
10
Los Angeles TimesJan Stuart
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 full review
10
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
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 full review
0
New York Magazine (Vulture)Peter Rainer
Clumsy, obvious, preposterous, the movie will likely set the cause of woman warriors back decades. Read full review
0
Chicago ReaderStaff (Not Credited)
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. Read full review
0
SalonCharles Taylor
I think you'd have to be comatose or mentally incompetent not to find Enough ludicrous. Read full review
0
Washington PostDesson Thomson
In terms of actual social conscience, the movie gets a demagogic, rabble-rousing F. It also gets a failed grade for honest writing. Read full review
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