| Posted by: The Arrow at October 11, 2002, 9:44 am | | Topic: Reviews: Enough Forum: JoBlo | | ENOUGH (2002) (2/10) I just saw this piece of shite for the first time and all I can say is WTF? How this flick wound up with relatively "good" reviews is beyond me. This blandly directed, manipulative and not so subtle piece of "feminism wannabee" propoganda had me vomiting my Chips and Dip all over myself. I knew I was in trouble the moment the oh so "insightful" Title Cards popped up early on. Fuck me man! The film's worst sin of all though is that it tackles such a potent and dead serious subject matter with the maturity of a "Power Rangers" episode. I find it appaling that a tale that deals with wife beating would keep its two feet firmly planted into such a fantasy world where all of the men are "super-duper-evil" cartoon characters, where all of the plot turns are idiotic to the point of self mutilation and where the dialogue is well; freaking atrocious ("Cake-Pie" BARFFFFFFFFF). I think there should be a law established where motion pictures are NOT allowed to adress hefty issues in such an incredibly childish way. But that's just me. The only good thing here was that I was buying JLO's character's progression to a certain extent throughout. Also the fact that she's called Slim and as an ass the size of a Mack Truck put a smile on my face. But the film eventually shat all over that and the kitchen sink when her character arc eventually kicked in for the last block. Did you know that a 4 week kickboxing training session and Linda Hamilton's left over wardrobe from T2 can turn you her into a tough jiving, so serious its hilarious badass in the blink of an eye? Now you do. And you want me to swallow this diahera? COME ON! When the ridiculous finale FINALLY kicked in; that was it for me. I had tuned out and lost the slight investement I had put into the movie. Man this gal was so prepared that it was ludicrous and when her trainer's voice echoed in her head like Obi Wan at the last moment, I actually threw a Chocolate Pouding at my TV set while these ugly thoughts ran through my head: Fuck you for expecting me to buy all of this drivel and treating me like a complete moron. Fuck you for demanding me to "cheer" for this BULLSHIT story and characters! Fuck you for wasting my precious time and fuck you for having me get up to get another Chocolate Pouding. I'll stick with Sleeping with the Enemy; it deals with a similar subject matter, it doesn't preach, is well directed, manages to entertain, has a more credible male psycho and even when pushing the enveloppe of logic winds up up being way more grounded than this highly improbable, genuine piece of garbage. ENOUGH is an infantile, clumsy and dumber than dumb piece of "girl power" marmelade posing as a movie. First we got the inane "Double Jeopardy" and now this, I can firmly say I've had ENOUGH. Where's "The Stepfather" when you need him? "We need order around here!" |
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