John Q. – Verzweifelte Wut (2002)

John Q. – Verzweifelte Wut: Directed by Nick Cassavetes. With Gabriela Oltean, Denzel Washington, Kimberly Elise, Ron Annabelle. John Quincy Archibald takes a hospital emergency room hostage when his insurance won’t cover his son’s heart transplant.

“In this movie, with a great acting of Denzel Washington as John Q. I felt the deep problems of health in the USA. My cousin lives in the United States (i donu0026#39;t), and she told me a few complaints about this problem; in the movie i finally understood about that. I donu0026#39;t understand how, the most powerful country in the world does have such bad health services to itu0026#39;s people?. For the benefit of the Americans, i hope that they change this system soon. Denzel puts his hearth on this movie, playing a normal guy with financial problems and a hard work; the way that Denzel shows his love to his son is remarkable and demonstrates why he is one of the actual best actors in Hollywood. If you have seen Searching for Davidu0026#39;s Hearth (2004), this is as the other side of the story.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAbout the Movie: Denzel Washington plays John Quincy Archibald (John Q.) a husband and father with some financial problems that works almost 20 hours a day on a factory but who canu0026#39;t afford his expenses. John is trying to get a second job in order to earn an extra money. In the middle of this Johnu0026#39;s son Mike (Daniel E. Smith) is found to have a disease caused by a bigger than normal heart, and the doctors told him that he will die soon if they donu0026#39;t make a heart transplant. Here everything is hard but it gets really harder when John goes to the insurance company and get the notice that his insurance suddenly donu0026#39;t cover this type of procedures. John and his wife Denise (Kimberly Elise) start to make everything possible to collect the money (a lot of money) needed just to get his son on the donoru0026#39;s list, with their son dying an not much money, John desperate and takes the hospitalu0026#39;s emergency room staff and patients hostage, demanding for to his son to be put on that list and that doctors do the transplant. The story evolves emotionally deep trough all this; in a remarkable script.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAbout the Cast: Denzel Washington put his soul onto this role, being by far the best of all!!, Kimberly Elise does good too, but a little exaggerated sometimes, Daniel Smith as Mike is pretty poor in his acting, he didnu0026#39;t had to do that much but this kid (sorry) still isnu0026#39;t a good actor; he has years to perfect his performance. James Woods acting as Dr. Raymond Turner, as always is very good and professional, also Anne Hache as Rebbeca Payne is great and show a coldness that ripped me out. Robert Duvall acting is good but his character could have been deployed even more, for the good of the film. Ray Liotta does good; Eddie Griffin is good too as one of the characters of the emergency room (Wow, this was a great cast!) u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003e8/10! Excellent for Denzel Washington performance!”