Til Death Do Us Part

It's not as bad as people are saying it is. The actors did a good job the writing was just bad. Give it a chance. Yes it's a copy cat of Sleeping with the enemy.

Either the original sold their rights or there's going to be a lawsuit. It's the BET version of Sleeping With The Enemy. Instead of stealing apples, it's stealing lemons. Instead of faking death via drowning, it's a car accident. Instead of the neighbor guy love interest having a 6 year-old niece, it's a daughter. Instead of wearing the black dress for him she wears the red. Instead of the matching wedding rings, it's a matching set of necklaces. Instead of a mother being in the rest home, it's a father. Instead of straightening the towels on the bar, it's leaving the toilet seat up. IT IS A COPYCAT OF SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY FROM START TO FINISH. And, it isn't very good. Enemy came out back in 1991. It was extremely popular, about as such as Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window. As with Rear Window, practically everyone has seen Enemy, young and old alike, so it's kind of weird to see such a poorly made version.

Yes, there is a dearth of originality in Hollywood, but I certainly didn't think it was THIS bad. If this was intended to be a black version of "Sleeping With the Enemy," and it appears it was, then the writer, director and actors failed miserably; in fact, the director should have kept his dignity intact and attached the Alan Smithee moniker to this monstrosity of a movie. Some scenes from Sleeping are blatant ripoffs with perhaps a touch of role reversal. So this begs the question, "Do the people who produced this have ANY scruples?" Surely they saw Sleeping and noticed the string of copycat scenes--or are we the viewer to assume those ripoff takes are an eerie string of coincidences? Moreover, there are plot holes galore and the few that the writer does try and fill only underscore the poor writing. In the end you hate all the characters for the lack of depth. There is so much predictability here that you might as well break out the Julia Roberts/Patrick Bergen original. Far more tension and superior acting.

This entire movie is a total rip off of "Sleeping with the Enemy", and a horrible version at that. They had a couple different twist but its the same movie. Although the actors in the movie are all beautiful, and they tried to do a good job but its just a bad movie. It definitely touches domestic abuse issues but it sometimes become unbelievable. Don't dare pay for this one just wait it out I'm sure it'll be on BET soon enough...

The setup is now 15 minutes in and it is so overly exaggerated with the sappy "baby I love you, no baby I love you more" stuff... this would be unbearable if I wasn't multi-tasking. These people are supposed to be married yet they don't seem to know anything about each other. The wife brings the husband water -- "baby you know I don't like water" so she responds "oh yeah baby, I forgot" and he responds "baby is something wrong that you forgot?" and she responds "no baby everything is fine" kissy kissy smooch smooch. This is so horrible. The worst aspect of it all is that the writer and director (they are a team) went out of their way to make this an all black movie with an all black cast about all black people's lives, yet it is almost completely devoid of any black culture whatsoever. Isn't the term called "whitewashing"...? Why did the writer and director whitewash this movie? Horrible.