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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 24, 2002
Pros: Denzel Washington, good idea
Cons: bad script, huge mistakes
Summary: John Q is about the common folk. Denzel plays a father whose son needs a heart transplant. But there is a problem -healthcare! John Q dosent have the right coverage and thus risks everything for his son by taking the emergency room hostage.
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 22, 2002
Pros: This was an entertaining movie. It had drama, humor, and a happy ending.
Cons: predictable
Summary: This was an entertaining movie to watch. Anyone who has children can identify with the horror of watching your child die before your eyes, and there's nothing you can do about it. In this movie, there is something that can be done to save the ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 22, 2002
Pros: Interesting Drama
Cons: Too moralizing and speechifying
Summary: If. If you love Hillary and Bill Clinton, Jesse Jackson, and O.J. Simpson, you will love this movie.
If your world consists of only two types of people, the uncaring rich and the downtrodden poor, you will identify with its plot (the middle-class ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 22, 2002
Pros: Actually a few funny moments. A decent feel good story about a father and son.
Cons: Nothing I haven't seen before.
Summary: After seeing "John Q" starring one of my favorite and underrated actors, Denzel Washington, I came away thinking one thing. "I swear I've seen this movie before."
Well it turns out, if you haven't already seen it, go rent "The Negotiator" ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 22, 2002
Pros: Denzel Washington
Cons: everything else
Summary: The director tried so hard to get his message
thru that he ruined the movie......
Denzel and most of the other actors did what they
could with the poor script but it was just STUPID....
It is so sad that this movie is out right at the ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 20, 2002
Pros: Denzel Washington delivers another strong performance
Cons: The script preaches too much, too many cliches, cardboard characters
Summary: Are hospitals greedy? Are insurance companies unfair? John Q is filled with preaching about welfare and fighting the hospital system. It carries a strong performance by Denzel Washington, but the rest of the film is filled with boring characters ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 20, 2002
Pros: excellent acting in main and supporting roles
Cons: when the hostages were being released it was choppy for a few seconds
Summary: In John Q a father went to desperate lengths to help his son who needed a heart transplant. The first scene there is a woman driving down the road and is hit by a truck, this at first seemed to be an irelevant scene but this scene was very important ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 20, 2002
Pros: Denzel,Eddie Griffin, tear-jerker.
Cons: Predictable
Summary: Well, if you didn't hate HMO's before this movie, you sure will afterwards. My thirteen-year-old daughter isn't sure what an HMO is, but she is sure it's something evil after seeing "John Q". It's fun having something to hate in a movie, and something ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 20, 2002
Pros: a lot of potential
Cons: bad music, poorly written, bad direction
Summary: This movie could have been so good. It had a lot of potential, but NOOOO, the director (I didn't bother to research who he is) had to destroy this good cast and good story. Of course he had some help destroying the flick, by the screenwriters and the ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 20, 2002
Pros: Cast, Acting, Plot, and only pg-13.
Cons: None
Summary: Excellent movie! I went to see this movie with the full intention of see a good movie! I was not let down. Denzel does a great job of telling the unfortunate truth about this world.
I would recomend this movie to everyone I see, because it ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 19, 2002
Pros: Denzel Washington's performance is again interesting.
Cons: Everything else is forgettable.
Summary: John Q. Archibald (Denzel Washington) is experiencing hard times. Working part time, he is unable to pay all of the bills prompting his wife (Kimberly Elise) to get a job at the local department store. Even though the creditors are calling and they ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 19, 2002
Pros: This movie is the voice of the "have nots" of health insurance.
Cons: There were none.
Summary: John Q. is a drama that is not only entertaining, but bears a serious message directed at all Health Maintenance Organizations.
It is quite obvious that the writer of this film has had some personal experiences with HMOs. He also managed to ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 18, 2002
Pros: Denzel Washington and his excellent supporting cast.
Cons: Story is a little too predictable.
Summary: HMO insurance plans have been getting a bad rep since their inception, but in John Q the doctors and hospitals who work with HMO's are also not shown in the most favorable light. Denzel Washington's character of John Q is having a hard time making ends ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 18, 2002
Pros: Story, Intense Drama, Some Humor
Cons: Could have had less bad language
Summary: This is a movie I have heard little about, but when a friend asked me to go see it with them, I immediate went and researched the story about John Q. What I came up with was quite a surprise, so I agreed to see it. Well, I will say that I wasnt ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 18, 2002
Pros: Superb acting from the start and a brilliant underlying message make this film a winner.
Cons: Poorly written score and a little predictable sometimes, but not enough to ruin the experience.
Summary: Synopsis
The film John Q is the story of John Quincy Archibald (Denzel Washington) and the desperate measures he takes to try and save the life of his dying son. From the first minutes of the film, we are shown the strong bond and ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 17, 2002
Pros: The movie is entertaining and all humans can identify with the dilemma presented.
Cons: They should have developed Duvall, Woods and Liota more. Expand the ending.
Summary: I wasn't thrilled with the plot premise going in but the film won me over as I sat in the theater. I can't compare the film to Dog Day Afternoon like many reviewers because that film was presented in the early 70's and I was only in elementary school. So ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 17, 2002
Pros: Denzel, family values
Cons: Hecht
Summary: Although John Q has flaws in its casting and plot, the family values that John Q his wife and son display during the film as worth the time and money (one of the few films recently that I didn't need popcorn or soda to pass the time - I was glued to my ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 16, 2002
Pros: Denzel, Kimberly Elise
Cons: A terrible, tacky script
Summary: I went to see John Q expecting to see a serious drama about a very real problem: a healthcare system that often denies care to those who need it most. Instead, the filmmakers gave me a poorly written comedy aspiring to be drama.
What was ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 16, 2002
Pros: Denzel... *swoon*
Cons: It's just missing something.
Summary: My family and I all enjoyed this movie, but we took frequent popcorn and potty breaks... Somehow, no one missed anything in doing so, which is NOT a good sign.
However, in spite of the predictability and cliches that seemed to overpower the ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 16, 2002
Pros: Everything
Cons: Nothing
Summary: If your son was on the hospital bed, dying, and the insurance company won't pay for a crucial heart transplant, what would you do?
Denzel Washington plays John Q. Archibald, a Chicago factory worker struggling to make end's meet. He can't ... read more
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