John Quincy Archibald's son Michael collapses while playing baseball as a result of heart failure. John rushes Michael to a hospital emergency room where he is informed that Michael's only hope is a transplant. Unfortunately, John's insurance won't cover his son's transplant. Out of options, John Q. takes the emergency room staff and patients hostage until hospital doctors agree to do the transplant.... (Full plot summary below)
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John Quincy Archibald's son Michael collapses while playing baseball as a result of heart failure. John rushes Michael to a hospital emergency room where he is informed that Michael's only hope is a transplant. Unfortunately, John's insurance won't cover his son's transplant. Out of options, John Q. takes the emergency room staff and patients hostage until hospital doctors agree to do the transplant.
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| EricDSnider.comEric D. SniderThis is sappy, unrealistic stuff with hardly a true moment anywhere in it. |
| New York Magazine/VulturePeter RainerIs it possible none of these actors read the script before they signed on? Were New Line executives perhaps too hung up on hobbits to notice how whacked out this movie is? |
| Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasAn all-stops-out rabble-rouser that hurls a broadside at America's medical insurance crisis. |
| Flipside Movie EmporiumRob Vaux[Denzel Washington] not only rescues a very questionable movie, but lends it a sense of dignity and moral weight that it couldn't hope to achieve on its own. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevySocial messages, simplistic action, and teary melodrama are manipulatively but unsuccessfully mixed in this picture, which tries to provide a "hard" look at an honest working-class man (Washington) who loses control while trying to save his child's life |
| St. Paul Pioneer PressChris Hewitt (St. Paul)The lousy John Q all but spits out Denzel Washington's fine performance in the title role. |
| One Guy's OpinionFrank SwietekA meretricious melodrama that manages to reduce serious social and economic issues to the most cheaply sensationalistic level. |
| L.A. WeeklyJohn PattersonA coercive script by James Kearns, and some middling direction by Nick Cassavetes, can't rob the movie of an undeniable, headlong crowd-pleasing power. |
| Laramie Movie ScopeRobert Roten'John Q" is a manipulative thriller, but unlike most such films, it has a worthwhile social policy point to make and some top-notch acting talent to help put the point across. |
| Decent Films GuideSteven D. Greydanus"What John does is heroic, but we don't condone it," one of the film's stars recently said, a tortuous comment that perfectly illustrates the picture's moral schizophrenia. |
