John Q.
John Q.
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Academy Award winner Denzel Washington stars in this powerful drama about a father who takes extreme measures to save his son’s life when his insurance company refuses to cover his heart transplant surgery.
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It’s impossible to walk away from John Q. without thinking about the film that could have been. The pathetic state of health care in the U.S. and the desperate behavior it engenders is not only worthy but edgy material; no doubt director Nick Cassavetes (She’s So Lovely) and Denzel Washington (as well as Robert Duvall, Ray Liotta, James Woods, and Anne Heche) were drawn to the provocative pitch. The only snag is that John Q. has about as much edge as an after-school special. Washington plays John Quincy Archibald, a hard-working factory worker whose house stands to be repossessed and whose lovely wife (Kimberly Elise) is at her wits’ end. When his extremely cute son collapses while rounding the bases in a Little League game, things go from bad to worse. John Q. takes a downtown Chicago emergency room hostage when he learns that the heart transplant his son needs won’t be performed because his health care doesn’t cover it. The action-drama that ensues–replete with one-liners, stilted debate, inept snipers, and multiple references to O.J. Simpson’s white Bronco–is so littered with clichés that the issues, timely ones, get lost in a crescendo of melodrama. –Fionn Meade
John Q.
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Comments
Is there anything more cynical and hypocritical than a big-budget, major-studio movie that tries to make a buck off people’s unfounded guilt over living in a capitalist country? I thought “The Other Sister” set the standard for manipulative cinema, but “John Q” really has to take the cake. Preachy, simplistic, filled with cliches and “moving” oratory about the
failings of a health-care system that covers about 85% of the population, this movie is eerily similar to the “Socialist realism” that passed for art in the Soviet Union before it collapsed. Even worse, after the ridiculous melodrama has passed, the movie subjects viewers to a a parade of (empty)
talking heads like Hillary Clinton and Gloria Allred bleating about how we need universal (in other words, socialist) health care in this country. Apparently since Marxist ideas have worked so well in Poland, China, and Cuba, it’s high time we tried them here. I think these peoples’ attitudes were best exemplified by the quote from Bill Maher, who said something to
the effect of “We could have national health care, but we don’t want our taxes raised.” Gee, if people don’t want national health care, is the government supposed to force it on them at gunpoint? (Probably). Maybe people figure they’re already paying enough in taxes, and don’t really feel like paying even more so the government can give to some people what most of
us have to earn. How greedy of them. What’s next, a movie about how we should all pay higher taxes so the poor can afford high-definition TV’s? Sheesh.
Rating: 1 / 5
I received this product earlier than I expected, and it was in great condition!
Rating: 5 / 5
Have never watched this movie – collected it as an esstential part of my Denzel collection…
Rating: 1 / 5
I gave this 3 stars because I am required to give it something and Denzel is always worth at least that. But I have not seen the movie, and though I probably will (on the strength of Denzel), I just could not let the “AMAZON Review” pass without comment: “The pathetic state of health care in the U.S. …” Oh, puh-LEASE. Troubled, in some aspects? Yes. Sometimes unfair? Sure. But PATHETIC? I beg you, people, return to the real world….
Rating: 3 / 5
…I hope this film dose not encourge this type of behavior… That would’nt have the [man] 2 give his life 2 save his son ‘but Dose not have 2 because if money was the only object he more than than likely would sign his name and get the it…Denzel keep on making films that matter
Rating: 5 / 5
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