J-Lo
gets tough with Krav Maga in her latest film Enough
Ridiculous, manipulative, and utterly irresistible, this push-button
thriller instantly qualifies as a guilty pleasure, even when you
know it's just a B-movie potboiler with moxie to spare.
Taking a savvy clue from Ashley Judd's Double Jeopardy and any number
of endangered-female melodramas from Hollywood's golden age, Jennifer
Lopez stars as a blue-collar beauty who marries the really wrong
guy (Billy Campbell). Eventually, of course, she discovers his philandering
and spends the rest of the movie in nomadic flight from his hot-tempered
brutality. Bankrolled by her estranged father (Fred Ward), she protects
her young daughter, but knowing she must face the inevitable showdown
with Campbell, she buffs up with Krav Maga
self-defense courses and... well, we won't spoil the "surprise."
With Campbell doing everything but twirl his moustache, this shameless
provocation is beneath the talents of director Michael Apted, but
with J. Lo in charge, it's a revenge fantasy that's guaranteed to
please.
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