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John Q
An ordinary father takes an emergency room hostage when his child needs an emergency heart transplant that he can't afford and the insurance company won't pay for. At the same time, he is an unlikely...  View more >

Starring Denzel Washington, Robert DuVall, Anne Heche...  View more >

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Feb 15, 2002
Denzel's Waterloo

This movie is bad on so many levels. With the exception of Denzel, each character is merely a caricature. You have seen them all, many times before, in better movies. The drama is just a weak handmaiden to the personal politics of its creators.

Hostages “spontaneously” engage in political debate and they even manage to work their way around to digs in on gun show sales. The digression is complete when, at the end, the director inserts newsreels of politicians chastising us for not having national healthcare, as if we could fail to get their point from the stilted dialogue.

This is the kind of movie that usually leaves me in a puddle of tears on the floor but I couldn’t buy any of this overtly pandering propaganda piece.
Feb 27, 2002
A second-rate drama, "John Q" tried very hard to confront the audience about the country's health care issues and that phoony take-over of the hospital made things worse for this movie.

Denzel Washington played a blue-collar worker whiose son developed heart problems and needs a new one or he will die. After lots of red tape and lots of lectures from those in the heath care field, Denzel took the law into his hands and took over the hospital.

The hostages are nothing more than a collection of sterotypes ranging from a tolken black to a preagant woman to a spanish speaking woman with a toddler. A loud mouth TV anchor and cheering spectators round out the movie.

The movie tried to crossed "Dog Day Afternoon" with "The Hospital" but too much clutter has kept the health care issue off the big screen. One person who can make sense of this movie is no longer with us. Paddy Chayefsky wrote wondeful screenplays including "The Hospital" and "Network." died in 1981. I only wish that he's still alive to clear up this mess I like to called "John Q." The weak soap-opera script they got just doesn't cut it.
Jul 21, 2003

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