John Q

2002

Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller

104
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 26% · 135 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 78% · 100K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.1/10 10 143189 143.2K

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Plot summary

John Quincy Archibald is a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then finds out he cannot receive a transplant because HMO insurance will not cover it. Therefore, he decides to take a hospital full of patients hostage until the hospital puts his son's name on the donor's list.


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May 07, 2012 at 09:49 PM

Top cast

Denzel Washington as John Quincy Archibald
Ray Liotta as Chief Gus Monroe
Anne Heche as Rebecca Payne
Ethan Suplee as Guard Max Conlin
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by MartinHafer 8 / 10

Keep some Kleenex nearby as you watch this one!

Considering the plot of "John Q", I am actually surprised something like this hasn't happened already. The film is about every parent's nightmare...and their little boy is dying and in need of a heart transplant. However, the father's insurance won't cover it and the hospital seems a bit indifferent to the family's plight. So, as the hospital is about to just discharge the boy to go home to die, the desperate father (Denzel Washington) does something which shows just how desperate he is...he takes the Emergency Room hostage! And, he threatens to kill the people there unless his son is placed on the transplant list.

About 75% of the film takes place in the Emergency Room and it makes for a very tense story. It also is a film that will rip your guts out as you watch, and I strongly recommend you see this with some Kleenex nearby. The scene where the little boy collapses early in the film is a real tearjerker!!

Overall a very interesting story (despite a few plot holes*) and some very good acting. Well worth seeing and very well made.

*The biggest plot hole is that they could have SAID the boy was now on the recipient list and not bothered to add him. After all, otherwise this might encourage other desperate folks to do as John Q did in the film! And you would have thought John would have considered this.

Reviewed by jboothmillard 6 / 10

John Q

From director Nick Cassavetes (The Notebook), I think the lead actor was the most appealing and obvious reason to see the film, with some other good people too. Basically Michael 'Mike' Archibald (Daniel E. Smith), son of John Quincy Archibald (Denzel Washington), collapses during a baseball game as a result of heart failure. Then John and his wife Denise (Kimberly Elise) find out that Mike needs a heart transplant or he will die, but unfortunately, they don't have the $250,000 for the operation, and their insurance won't cover it. Out of options to raise cash quickly, John "Q" takes a gun into the hospital and holds everyone, staff and patients, hostage until the doctors agree to put Mike on the transplant list. Soon the police show up outside, led by Lt. Frank Grimes (Robert Duvall) and Chief Gus Monroe (Ray Liotta), and their only communication with John is through the phone, negotiating for hostages to be released, but John is not leaving until they have found a heart for his son. There is a point where John is desperate for his son to live and he is willing to sacrifice himself, but thankfully, a recently dead person with the right blood type and heart size is found just in time. In the end, Mike's life is saved with a new heart, and John is found guilty of only one of three charges. Also starring James Woods as Dr. Raymond Turner, Anne Heche as Rebecca Payne, Eddie Griffin as Lester Matthews, Shawn Hatosy as Mitch Quigley, Laura Elena Harring as Gina Palumbo, Ted Demme as Himself and My Name Is Earl's Ethan Suplee as Guard Max Conlin. Washington of course plays a powerful role, the supporting cast all do very well also, it is a very watchable gripping near action drama. Good!

Reviewed by lee_eisenberg 7 / 10

An important issue, although they got a number of things wrong.

"John Q" was the first movie with which I'm familiar that looked at the health care situation in this country. Too bad that it had so many inaccuracies. The plot of course has economically strapped John Quincy Archibald (Denzel Washington) taking a hospital hostage to demand medical treatment for his son.

But, like I said, they misrepresented a number of things too many to enumerate here. But this movie's strength is looking at the disastrous effects of letting insurance companies run our health care system. You just may want to move to Canada after seeing this (although I haven't moved there). Also starring Kimberly Elise, James Woods, Anne Heche, Robert Duvall, and Ray Liotta.

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