'Enough' predictable, but entertaining

Enough -- PG-13
Starring: Jennifer Lopez, Bill Campbell
Directed by: Michael Apted
Showing: Showlace 11 East Two types of people can see Jennifer Lopez's new thriller "Enough" and might leave the theater thinking one of two things. First, a woman who is in a similar situation to Lopez's character Slim -- a woman who was beaten by her husband and does not want to take it anymore -- can relate to the story and take that extra step to get away. Another person could see the film and think the law will not protect Slim from her husband's beatings, and the only solution would be to take control of the situation. Whether you see movies for a moral lesson or just to be entertained, "Enough" does a decent job of both. Dangerous car chases, many close escapes and a "Rocky"-esque training scene move the movie along quickly and keep the audience from getting bored. The first fifteen minutes of the film includes brief scenes that include Slim's first encounter with her "love-at-first-sight" soon to be husband Mitch (Bill Campbell, who was also Disney's "The Rocketeer"), the two's expensive wedding (to show how much money he has), the birth of their child and the first beating that Slim gets after she figures out that her "perfect" husband has a "perfect" mistress. Mitch's reasoning behind it, "I'm a man -- this is the price you pay for living the life I have provided for you." Slim decides to run away with her small child Gracie (Tessa Allen), who is possibly the best actor in the film despite her young age. Sometimes her comments get too cute and cheesy, but she cries, screams, runs and looks sad. Hopefully she did this on cue, and the director didn't just threaten her kitten. The one problem the film had, other than its similarities to Julia Roberts' "Sleeping With the Enemy," was the promise by J-Lo that there would be a surprise ending. If she thought that this end was a surprise, she might have also been surprised that ex-boyfriend P. Diddy was found not guilty of his gun charges. Other than these minor problems, the film keeps you entertained with or without a moral lesson.