Enough is too much
Enough

Stars: J. Lo and Billy Campbell. Columbia TriStar. Rated MA. 110 mins

Reviewer :: Chris Powell

I’m not a J. Lo fan, so the DVD sat on the breakfast bar for about four days before I could bring myself to watch this cross between Sleeping with the Enemy and Double Jeopardy.

J. Lo plays the part of ‘Slim’, a waitress in a greasy spoon diner who falls for Mitch, a well-to-do building contractor.

They marry, and appear to be having the perfect life until Slim discovers Mitch’s infidelities.

Evil Mitch denies nothing, and lets Slim know that she needs to accept this, making his point with a vicious right hook.

Slim decides to take her toddler and run – not while Mitch is at work, but in the middle of the night, when he’s home and the stairs are at their creakiest.

After more physical abuse, Slim finally escapes and spends the rest of the movie running until she says “enough.” It’s a safe bet you will have already muttered that long before she does.

Three minutes in, a Dojo with a very large martial arts expert, transforms Slim into a fighter to rival Jackie Chan and the final scene transpires as expected.

The pace of the movie was actually pretty fast. J. Lo’s performance was reasonably convincing.

It’s a pity the plot had more holes than a poster of Saddam in Baghdad.

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