This movie takes a tense topic like domestic abuse and exploits it, making it commercial with a Hollywood tone. Most of the scenes in which J. Lo is being abused are often comical and we never really get the feeling she's being hurt, except for the occasional bruise here and there, which is perplexing seeing as how Mitch slaps her around a lot. I dare you to count her bruises and wounds inflicted and then add it to the years she suffered from the abuse, it's hilarious. Jennifer Lopez hams it up big time as Slim, attempting to seem vulnerable and even cuts her hair to look like an average woman, when really it looks like a faux- wig. The movie also uses ridiculous plot devices and far-fetched scenes when she makes a booby trap on one of her "safe houses" that help her know when her husband is near. In the movie, she tends to magically come up with funds to help her run from her husband across country, which is also staggering because he closes her funds the first time around.

She also manages to meet some kind of agent who helps her to fight back against her husband by using an astoundingly uncanny body double, tricks in booby trapping his house, and she also manages to conveniently learn Israeli army self-defense methods in a process comprised of only two scenes. Juliette Lewis is basically useless in this movie as she witnesses the abuse, and just stands around popping in and out of the movie without an real reason to be there. The character Slim, is not a particularly smart character. Rather than complain to the police, file reports, record his threats, or taking pictures of the wounds for evidence of the abuse, she mildly complains and runs away only to be caught yet again. The movie has a strong heavy "female empowerment" tone in this but just goes about it all wrong, making every move each character makes seem dumb and ridiculous. Bill Campbell tries really hard to seem menacing and scary when really, he comes off as a comic book villain, scowling and sneering at every part of the movie. At times he seems more like a clichéd abusive husband than a real character. A lot of the plot in the movie is just filler for the lead-up to the climactic fight between the two in the end which is also comical when she scans the house for weapons with a metal detector, finding weapons in obvious places. The fight itself, I'll admit, is pretty cool, but fails to deliver any true impact because of the terrible dialogue exchange between the two.

Far-fetched, unrealistic, but enjoyable. For some, ten minutes will
be "Enough" for them to turn it off.