John Q Movie Download

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.Read More