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John Q (2002)
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Reviews Counted:127
Fresh:28
Rotten:99
Average Rating:4.4/10
Consensus: Washington's performance rises above the material, but John Q pounds the audience over the head with its message.
Theatrical Release:Feb 15, 2002 Wide
Box Office: $71,026,631
Synopsis: John Q. Archibald (Denzel Washington) is struggling through a recession trying to provide for his son Mikey (Daniel E. Smith) and his waitress wife (Kimberly Elise). Mikey collapses at a Little... [More]
Starring: Denzel Washington, Robert Duvall, Anne Heche, James Woods
Director: Nick Cassavetes
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Strands good actors in mushy, movie-of-the-week material. [Blu-ray] Full Review |
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The movie comes dangerously close to saying that the solution to a personal grievance is, well, terrorism, when you get right down to it. Full Review |
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Social 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 Full Review |
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2/4 |
Instead of presenting the story and allowing us to draw our own conclusions, Cassavetes blatantly tells us what we should think. Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
Washington, Woods, and Duvall are so capable, they almost save this schlock-fest from itself. Full Review |
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A coercive script by James Kearns, and some middling direction by Nick Cassavetes, can't rob the movie of an undeniable, headlong crowd-pleasing power as it tackles an issue that touches us all. Full Review |
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An emotional, heart-wrenching story that not only takes viewers on a journey within their own souls, but also opens up their eyes to the way the health care system works. Full Review |
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3/5 |
It may push more buttons than envelopes but John Q is a good old fashioned potboiler that generates ripped from the headlines heat. Full Review |
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2/5 |
"Socially conscious" Denzel Washington thriller wants to tackle tough questions -- but settles for easy answers. Full Review |
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A polemic in search of a plot. Full Review |
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