Monday 21 September 2015

John Q. (2002) 7/10

Starring : Denzel Washington, Robert Duvall, James Woods, Anne Heche, Kimberly Elise, Daniel E Smith, Ray Liotta
Director : Nick Cassacetes
Running Time : 117 mins

John Quincy Archibald (Washington) is devastated when his son Mike (Smith) is diagnosed with a rare heart disease which means he requires at transplant, but when he discovers that his work health cover won’t pay for the surgery and he can’t even get his son on the waiting list, he resorts to desperate measures to get his son seen to.

This starts out as something of a bog standard drama, with Washington doing his level best to keep his family afloat, then being hit by his son’s potentially fatal illness. Then things quickly take a left turn and this becomes something of a dramatic action flick. Somehow it works, and although some of the storyline is schmaltzy and overly soppy, it’s still a fun movie.

You’ll like this if you liked : The Negotiator



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