Continuing my plan to watch every movie in Denzel Washington's filmography, I come to 2002's John Q..
Denzel was great (as a Dad, I certainly felt his panic and frustration), John Q.'s farewell to his son is some of Denzel's best acting, but it's screenplay is one of the worst I have seen Denzel appear in, I had to go all the way back to the TV movie, Licence To Kill. With some awful dialogue, it's all just so implausible and heavy handed with its message (which I agree with, by the way).
Kimberly Ellies, Robert DuVall, James Woods, Ray Liotta (with an awful haircut) and Anne Heche aid Denzel with the heavy lifting of trying to elevate material in which characters act unbelievably stupidly and say stupid things!!
One problem I had, was the movie clearly gave away the ending during the opening credits (which you again see at about the hour mark, when John said he was waiting on a miracle), so I found the build up towards the finale, tension free. Though I did get emotional at the end.
I always thought Michael a Keaton was in this movie, but a quick IMDB search shows it was the similarly themed, Desperate Measures with Andy Garcia.
Amusing fact, Kevin Connolly who played the boy who bullied Rocky Jr in Rocky V has a small role as one of the hostages.
John Q grossed $71 million at the domestic box office and was the 39th highest grossing movie of the year.
Overall, thanks to a great performance from Denzel and a solid supporting cast I enjoyed it.
I had to rent this one on Amazon, first one for a while, as I have managed to stream the last few. It was well worth the rental price.
Denzel was great (as a Dad, I certainly felt his panic and frustration), John Q.'s farewell to his son is some of Denzel's best acting, but it's screenplay is one of the worst I have seen Denzel appear in, I had to go all the way back to the TV movie, Licence To Kill. With some awful dialogue, it's all just so implausible and heavy handed with its message (which I agree with, by the way).
Kimberly Ellies, Robert DuVall, James Woods, Ray Liotta (with an awful haircut) and Anne Heche aid Denzel with the heavy lifting of trying to elevate material in which characters act unbelievably stupidly and say stupid things!!
One problem I had, was the movie clearly gave away the ending during the opening credits (which you again see at about the hour mark, when John said he was waiting on a miracle), so I found the build up towards the finale, tension free. Though I did get emotional at the end.
I always thought Michael a Keaton was in this movie, but a quick IMDB search shows it was the similarly themed, Desperate Measures with Andy Garcia.
Amusing fact, Kevin Connolly who played the boy who bullied Rocky Jr in Rocky V has a small role as one of the hostages.
John Q grossed $71 million at the domestic box office and was the 39th highest grossing movie of the year.
Overall, thanks to a great performance from Denzel and a solid supporting cast I enjoyed it.
I had to rent this one on Amazon, first one for a while, as I have managed to stream the last few. It was well worth the rental price.