The Reel Rejects - JOHN Q (2002) IS INTENSELY GRIPPING!! MOVIE REVIEW!!

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Starting point is 00:01:02 Emotional. Very emotional. I thought it was a really good film, actually. And I think Denzel's performance, I mean, I don't, whether of movie is good or not, and I actually did think this was a really good film. And I thought, yeah, it was a heartfelt film. And I thought the messaging, too, about just health care inequality, there's some really, you know, some interesting social commentary that really hits home.

Starting point is 00:01:30 I mean, myself, too, just in general, not only with what I'm going with with my father right now. Oh, my God. I'm so sorry. Dr. Mehmet Oz was the heart transplant consultant on this friggin' doctor Oz. That's crazy. That is wild. Fonks. Anyway.

Starting point is 00:01:45 Yeah, yeah, of course. I was just going to say, too, not only with what I'm doing with my dad, because he's got a heart issue right now and also with cancer as well. But I also have an HMO plan, and I have been having so many damn issues. it's not even funny because when I think I have something, this medication that keeps these horrific, and John and anyone on the team will tell you I have these horrific headaches that I've been dealing with for years. Knock on wood, they have been,

Starting point is 00:02:12 I've been able to take preventatives, which I prefer not to take medications to have to keep them away, but if it's going to keep these away, the best way I can describe them is it's like having, you know, what's it called when you take a cold drink and you frozen. Brain freeze. Thank you. I was about to say frozen brain, which is what I have right now. But brain freeze. It's, you know, that intense feeling you get for like 10 or 15 seconds. It's like that.

Starting point is 00:02:37 Except it doesn't stop after 10, 15 seconds. That's the best way to describe it. I get it here. Anyways. Alex Gillis and Tom Woodruff. Tom Woodruff. I knew his son David for many years. And Tom, I met 10,000 times. Great guy. Amazing special effects. Anyways, I went to high school with Alec Gillis's daughter. Oh, did you? Oh, yeah. I actually knew his daughter, too, as well. Yeah, it's a small world, John. Anyways, it's a name drop off.

Starting point is 00:03:02 Yes, seriously. Anyways, just saying that, so I have to get a lot of medications, and this specific, there's one, I'm on three medications currently. One is Verapamil, another one's like, why am I dropping my medications? Another one is going to figure out your pharmaceutical history. Yeah, go ahead, you can, it's fine. And then another one that I get is called Mgalli. I take it once a month. Anyways, the point of this story that I'm trying to get.

Starting point is 00:03:27 get to is I have been trying to get him Gallaudy. I have to go to the doctor to take it because they just, it's a shot I can take it home, but I just feel more comfortable with the doctor taking it. Because I'm now on an HMO, because the PPO wanted to charge me $700 a month, as opposed to

Starting point is 00:03:43 the 250 I used to be on. Anyways, I switched over to an HMO. And I have been trying now for over seven months to get one time a month. And I've been dealt information, like, do this, do that, do this. do that to get and like it's the run around and it's like it's so frustrating and I'm like

Starting point is 00:04:03 healthcare is just so screwed up in this country in certain areas so like I'm really I really resonate with what this film is trying to to say and you know it and I was like I could feel for John when I came to that and granted like I didn't you know need a $250,000 surgery to save my life or anything in that in that sense but I think that's Charlie Sheen Charlie Sheen gets a thank you. Frank Darabont gets a thank you. But I think, you know, when it comes to Denzel's performance, like I said, whether a movie is good or bad, you're always going to get an incredible performance.

Starting point is 00:04:38 And I think when it comes to Denzel, it was an incredibly emotionally heartfelt performance that he gave every scene. He was extremely intense when he needed to be. And also, as I mentioned, extremely emotionally heartfelt. And I like to the quiet, no, I wouldn't say quiet, but I like the, the urgency and resiliency in which his wife kind of just complimented him as well and especially like in a situation like this that's kind of what you needed and especially with

Starting point is 00:05:11 what they were having to deal with in a situation like this and I think the movie did a great job in the first 10, 15 minutes giving us that family dynamic and really making us care about these characters right away so that when the horrible horrific thing happened where you know at the baseball field like you know now it set us on on this pathway for the rest of the film that you know whatever it takes this man is going to do to get his son a new heart whether that means going into the grave whether it means going to jail this this man's world is his wife and his son and he's

Starting point is 00:05:43 going to do whatever it takes to protect them and make sure they're okay and like i respect that kind of love and that kind of passion yeah and so yeah i mean this was a really well executed film incredible performances and yeah even the little kid played Mikey you know when he was like in I mean I love how like jovial he was and before like

Starting point is 00:06:04 everything happened and then when he was in there like my heart was just really scared I was just like really worried about him and like in those scenes like I mean granted I'm in a very emotionally vulnerable state and I know everyone can make an argument I cry over a lot of things that I watch

Starting point is 00:06:21 on this channel but I cut off your emotions yeah I know I'm sorry make these react these reactions less reactive i know i apologize i will do that but i have if i if i feel something i'm gonna do it and like that kid and denzil's performances really made me like give a crap and i also appreciate a lot of the supporting cast too the people in the hostage situation i i appreciated that they understood like how messed up the health care system and that this was just at the end of the day this was just a dad doing whatever it took like he wasn't really there to hurt them

Starting point is 00:06:49 or to hold them hostage like this was more about like a moral position kind of disguised as a hostage thriller. Yeah. You know, and so I appreciate that they recognize the situation where what it was. And so I really enjoyed this film. Yeah, no, I mean, this was very, ultimately, yeah, very rousing and satisfying by the end. And, yeah, it is one of those kind of, I think, cathartic situations where, yeah, you have a story about a person who is, you know, taking it to the systems, the powers that be in a way that so many people wish they probably could probably wish they could and yeah having at least a debate about

Starting point is 00:07:31 the nature of how we do things when it comes to health care and who gets you know the benefit of what kind of aid and what's available and all that stuff and I did appreciate that in the course of this it's like they present you with the immediacy of like okay he's going to you know basically go and force this to happen and I think a lot of people might assume like Yeah, just go in there and take the doctor hostage and don't stop until your kid has a new heart. But then the second he gets in there, there's all this other stuff. And he has to contend with the idea of like, okay, well, there are other people here. And I can't just tell these people that their ailments don't matter because that's what's happening to me.

Starting point is 00:08:10 So like, even though, you know, the movie doesn't like beat him down with that stuff, it still was interesting to me to, yeah, like once he, you know, kind of makes the decision to cross this point of no return. there's like a whole other, you know, bushel of things that he hadn't quite considered and it speaks to how complicated the whole thing is because, I mean, it always drives me in saying that, you know, when you think about it, for most things, for many things,

Starting point is 00:08:41 like the resources and the answer and like the people with the skills, all that's, all of it exists. It's all here. Like any, like most problems could theoretically be solved, but it's, yeah, it's these systems that we have in place for, you know, reasonable reasons, but also, yeah, that are subject to so many different just, you know, points of crossover where things can go wrong down so many parts of the line, you know, it's, yeah, it's the hospital, but it's also, you know, your insurance, but it's also your work, but it's also, you know, these varying factors that are all beyond your control, and I just want something to happen. And it's so complicated. There's so much red tape. many people passing the buck to other people and uh and yeah like i feel like in america at least anybody who deals with the health care system who isn't above a certain level of means has to deal

Starting point is 00:09:36 with yeah the weird you know economics of like well what can i afford to like let go of in terms of care and you know what uh yeah is the bare minimum of like needs i have to have and you know why is it that every month or every you know uh year i re-up my insurance i get less coverage and I pay more for that you know and it's yeah it's a very cathartic concept this movie and there wasn't anything

Starting point is 00:10:01 I don't think on it that suggested this was specifically based on a true event but it does have that feeling and I think Denzel obviously is the perfect actor to put at the center of this because he is a guy who can be so charming so likable but he also has

Starting point is 00:10:17 the intensity to sell a guy being desperate enough to take this road, this path and to do it in a way where yeah, you feel the volatility of the situation but you never think he's going to cross the line

Starting point is 00:10:33 into being truly immoral or cruel but you do buy his desperation and you know certain things while I'm sure certain viewers would sit there and be like oh I bet this or I bet that like you know the whole thing at the end about like oh the gun wasn't loaded I was like of course

Starting point is 00:10:49 of course it wouldn't be but I didn't even really think of it I didn't either until the end and uh yeah i thought the way that they eased us into this was really nice because obviously denzil is your central figure so we meet him in a you know gradual but very sort of it seemed to me very sort of complete way we see him at home with his struggles but we also see him at home with his joy we see him at work uh you know trying for better and then we see you know them as a family out you know enjoying each other's company going to the baseball game and they do a good job of setting it up in a way where I was just kind of engrossed in again I didn't remember what the crux of this movie was going to be about so when the kid keeled over I was completely caught up in that moment I think the movie did a nice job at the beginning to just you know gradually pull you into the story without telegraphing like some bad's gonna hat like I thought he was wearing the Mac truck hat I was like oh my god are they gonna get hit by a truck you know or something like that um

Starting point is 00:11:53 But yeah, like they did a really nice job of establishing the situation, drawing up the characters, and really at first making you feel like, yeah, you know, they're raising the money. They're, you know, rising to the occasion. And even though things are looking bleak, it looks like we can get this done. We can, you know, prove that we want this bad enough that we will work our asses off to go through all the proper channels. And when that doesn't work, you do feel the sting of that and the fury of that. And, yeah, like, I don't know what the reviews on this were. and I'm sure you could argue, I'm sure, you know... We're going to reveal them in a second to you.

Starting point is 00:12:26 Yeah, it's like I can imagine the argument that like, okay, this is... I can't remember what the exact term is for like a piece where it's like someone has clearly orchestrated a movie just so they can have, like, just so they can present a debate on screen. This does a little bit of that, but I don't think it's unfair to do that. And I appreciated the way that it again, you know, articulated all of that around its central theme, again of, you know, the question mark, the problem area of our health care system in America at the very least. And yeah, I thought this was directed really nicely for the most part. I was

Starting point is 00:13:02 always in the, you know, either tension and the just overwhelming cacophony of the moment when that was the point. I was really caught up in the family dynamics, both joyous and heartbreaking, when that was the point. And I liked what the supporting cast all brought to it. I mean, I think, like, Eddie Griffin is an interesting one to me because he is so Eddie Griffin. But I didn't dislike him here, and I liked what his character... I like how more serious he became, like, towards we got to the latter fact, when John was talking about taking his own life, he's like, hey, like, you know, might have to take this as a sign of God kind of thing. And then, yeah, I don't even mean about even talking about that. I just, I just like how was, I did like the comedic relief in terms of, like, the levity we have in such a, tension-filled situation and then how like his his tone seemed to shift in the situation as well as it got even more serious so i thought though i thought like great care was taken with the characters even that piece of crap who i still hated even by the end but even he really even got on john's side too as he started sympathizing with him as well credit to the performer yeah no no the actor yeah the actor did a great job i just been the character in the yeah you want to ring his neck yeah he's uh

Starting point is 00:14:19 horrific and awful and um and the little stories with the other patients i thought were nice and watching him figure out like okay well i can't deprive this pregnant woman of the care that she needs yeah and he sent to the husband with him yeah and then even with the couple i like that where it's like everybody sort of figures out like oh you guys didn't get any car accident you've been you've been beaten on her and and you need to be taught a lesson yourself and i love the way john deduce that too with the airbags and it's an 88 they didn't start having airbags still 80 that was such an interesting way to do so that. Well, and that's a nice, like, detail because

Starting point is 00:14:53 like throughout the film he's wearing, you know, like auto-related t-shirts and the Mac truck hat. You're like, oh, yeah, this guy probably knows stuff about cars and when things were introduced into what models. And, yeah, the little story with his girlfriend, you know, sort of going through this transformation of, you know,

Starting point is 00:15:09 self-empowerment, breaking away from him. Like, all those little things had time to happen in a way that I thought was really nice. Yeah, and also, what was his job again, per se, a John? He was working in heavy machinery in a factory. Maybe he does know a lot about cars, too, just from that job in general. And I know that's not exactly in the auto industry, but still heavy machinery in general.

Starting point is 00:15:30 Well, you're working with heavy machinery in an auto plant. I couldn't tell what they were making. And also, too, you could tell how repulsed he was by that guy, just because it's disgusting how that guy behaved towards his woman. But you could see, like, what kind of man he is towards his wife and towards his child. And also, that's what he thought was his last conversation and the kind of person he won. And he told his, his whole speech he gave and he told him like to be kind towards others not to not to hit women or whatever he said. Always listen to your mother. Yeah, always be kind.

Starting point is 00:15:59 So like, you know, be chivalrous. Yeah. He was trying to, you know, have that speech and teach him out to be like a very righteous and good human being and a man. Yeah, it was lovely. Yeah. And also, too, I think you make a really good point as well about I like how John still kept his moral. compass when he came in there was so disoriented especially like with all these people i mean he could easily just said hey i'm just worried about my kid not worried about all you people let's get to this

Starting point is 00:16:28 and if they would have done that like i still would have sympathized with him because he's so desperate right now in the situation and time is truly of the essence the time is a lot of the essence of all these people because they're in they're in the emergency room so um i'm glad that they didn't like decide you know when they were writing this like to have him like not care about these people and not want them now because like it would be much harder for him to be yeah yeah like a bully for sure every man for sure and i i think that gives him uh again it gives him a moral compass and or it keeps that moral compass even in desperate times when he's trying to save his son's life so i appreciated that they that they still left uh that they still

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Starting point is 00:19:00 different point if yeah there was a whole bunch of i guess that's the way in which this does work out neatly as a movie but i i appreciate yeah it's like it calls upon john to really take as like he's got to like play the game with the negotiators with the cops and stuff like that but yeah it really calls upon him to like treat the situation with impeccable intent i guess and to like really prove yeah that this is about a greater systemic ill and i am trying to yeah yeah and even though this is you know i have taken control of the situation in a wholly extreme kind of way yeah this is something that affects all of us and So I'm not going to make it so that you can't get what you need just so that I can get what I need. We're going to all hopefully get what we need. Exactly. And I just happen to need the most desperate thing and the most hard to obtain thing. But yeah, I think it's like it's something that isn't really made like a huge emphasis here.

Starting point is 00:20:01 But it's that idea that like, you know, people, especially people who are on the margins of society or who, you know, have less means than a lot of other people, you know, are kind of forced to. act so much like you have to cross every t and dot every or dot every eye cross every t you know you have to be so beyond sort of impeccable in your you know handling of a situation more so than a lot of average people might have to and so that's an instance of that here where i'm like damn even in this hostage situation you really have to make sure you handle this right so that when you come out of this because you're not aiming for a situation where nobody walks away you're aiming for a situation where everybody walks away so you got to be as good as you can be because yeah then by the end you're like i can see i can see why the jury would rule yeah this was never about attempted

Starting point is 00:20:51 murder of course this was never about you know whatever the second charge there was but you did take these people hostage that you will have to face some retribution for yeah and uh it was just yeah a really nicely handled thriller that was very emotional and i liked robert duval's presence as well because I thought, yeah, he's great. Yeah, I really liked, you know, it's a tricky one, and you don't spend as much time in the negotiation as a more straightforward hostage movie. But I thought, yeah, like the way that even he is dealing with people along,

Starting point is 00:21:27 yeah, the chain of command who are making it difficult for him to do his job and the fact that he can actually kind of see John and who he is, and he's trying to work out the situation based on, you know, his years of experience or he ragging on him for being an old guy. But yeah, he has this level

Starting point is 00:21:45 of not like he seems very knowing and he brings this integrity and so by the end you know, I thought it had a nice pitch on the fact that by the end you know Frank is on John's side

Starting point is 00:21:57 in a lot of ways, not every way, but in a lot of ways and wants something good to happen here despite how bad the situation is. For sure. And I really bought that. Well, yeah,

Starting point is 00:22:06 he laughed when he saw Eddie Griffin in the car And when he saw him in the operating room And none of that felt like I feel like there's a different version where that could have felt more like cheesy Hollywood And I still would have liked it But like I thought it was nicely pitched here

Starting point is 00:22:20 It felt genuine, yeah It felt genuine for sure And I also think again this is That just goes to your point as well And what I said earlier I think they did a great job With the supporting characters as well And Hatch

Starting point is 00:22:33 And Hache, excuse me I get it She's just doing her job and that's what she was hired to do is, you know, hey, look, we have a job to do. We're going to make money, which I get. It's definitely a bit of a thankless role. Yeah, yeah. But at the same point, I think you can also be human about it and be sensitive when you are given this kind of information to people.

Starting point is 00:22:58 And I think she was kind of, you know, just being heartless when she was speaking to them, at least how I interpreted it when I was watching in her scenes. As a character, not much bedside manner. Yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly, as a character. And as the film progressed and watching her scenes, and I think when she really saw Denise's character just break down in front of her later on and she had to pretend that she was going to put her on the donor list.

Starting point is 00:23:24 Oh, I hated that. Yeah, I hated it too. Desper times, dispar measures, right? But I think, like, that kind of struck a chord with her and then watching John talk to his son, Mikey, over the phone on that feed that was not supposed to be. on the news that you could see the tears coming down like

Starting point is 00:23:42 she finally like we saw she actually has a soul you know she's not fully heartless and I mean like to see her like be so jovial and have an emotion when like the you know the the transfer of the of the heart like order came in

Starting point is 00:23:59 like I was like I really thought that was actually an earned moment like to see and it was nice to have that that semi arc or whatever like to see her character have kind of a change from someone who's so, you know, heartless and so like, you know, no bedside manner, as you would say,

Starting point is 00:24:19 and then to actually, like, be so happy to deliver this news that we have a new heart for your son. And I appreciated that they, like, took care even to give to their supporting characters in the film. I like when a film does that. Yeah, and you can feel the toll of, like, the whole situation on her, you know, like, by the end, yeah, she is part of the life-saving,

Starting point is 00:24:39 treatment but you can also feel the toll of like you know the journey took to get here she might be a changed person yeah and i get it she like this is her job she probably has to deal with hundreds of families a week i'm sure that is like in itself a toll as well but you know this is the job you also signed up for yeah it's gotta be hard like i do say like yeah it's it's got to be hard i guess not to be jaded when you realize like there's only so much help we can provide there's only so much we have access to and in a donor scenario there have to be available organs. So like that whole thing where he's like, well, fine,

Starting point is 00:25:14 and he's going to take mine. It was like so, yeah, like, it got me breathless. Like, I didn't fully ever really commit to the idea of like, man, he's going to do it. But at the same time, I was like, I don't know how they're going to get out of this, you know, or at least I bought once it became clear. Like, oh, yeah, the, you know, here's the donor. We saw her in the prologue.

Starting point is 00:25:35 Right. Now, yeah, here's the reconnecting of that detail. But yeah, it at least had that breathlessness of like, I know this has to work out somehow, but I don't know how they're going to get there. Then when he turned off the radio, it scared that shit. Yeah, yeah. And then, you know, to do the little like fake out bit with Eddie Griffin on the TV. But yeah, it's got like a lot of nice convergence points of like you've got Tuck Lampley who like does kind of help by just doing what he does, even though he's clearly doing it for. very selfish reasons, very vain reasons, and, you know, obviously passing it off, like,

Starting point is 00:26:15 you know, he's doing important work, which in a way he kind of is, but also, yeah, it's just a, I thought this, yeah, had a nice convergence of ideas and conversations about, yeah, sensationalism of both, you know, hostage scenarios or, you know, standoffs with police and things like that, but also, yeah, human interest and, you know, asking the bigger questions about our system. and whatnot, and yeah, you see it from the police side, you see it from the news side a little bit, you see it from the working people's side, and

Starting point is 00:26:47 yeah, it paints just a palpably frustratingly tangible situation. So yeah, I thought it was really nice and handled. And, you know, for this kind of movie that is clearly having a philosophical debate that's on the writer's mind on the screen,

Starting point is 00:27:03 I still thought that, yeah, it made for a good character piece. I really loved the actress who played his wife. I love the actor who played his son and i think that's yeah going back i was like the intro the the intro to the movie the first you know chunk uh is so lovely because yeah you see some of the struggles you get to know denzil but also like the second his son shows up i fell in love with that kid i was like this kid is so charming i i'm endeared completely and all the little things they came up with him you know being obsessed with the bodybuilders and the weird little game they're playing in the car is so sweet and

Starting point is 00:27:37 and believably kind of silly in the way that a real family might be with each other when they're just having fun on the weekend or something like that and I think, you know, the movie would work even if, you know,

Starting point is 00:27:49 you didn't have a great child actor in there but I thought that kid really did a wonderful job too. It was great. All right, what do you think this got in Ron Tomatoes? I don't know. I feel like my heart wants to say pretty decent score.

Starting point is 00:28:05 I don't know, 85% that's critics critics 26% this got a 26% wow audience that's bonkers

Starting point is 00:28:16 I know I was shocked I was shocked actually and that's out of let me see how many reviews that's out of 103 reviews I can fathom I guess what the what is this

Starting point is 00:28:29 what does the consensus say what is it like too preachy and manipulative and melodramatic Washington critics consensus as Washington's performance rises above the material, but John Q pounds the audience over the head with its message. I mean, they're not wrong, I guess.

Starting point is 00:28:45 It's an easy message to get people on your side with, but this seems like the kind of movie that while critics might not like it, I feel like audiences would. But now I don't know what the handicap should be. I'm like 50% audience score. Is that what you're going with? I'm going to go 70% audience. 78.

Starting point is 00:29:05 hey oh 78 it's even better i said 70 but i'll take it fascinating yeah and then uh i can see it yeah no i mean this worked on me but it's supposed to work it worked on me and i i can understand where they're coming from i i don't fully agree but i i get it and on i mdb it got a 7.1 high score okay yeah and what do you think were uh worldwide this movie made it uh do so by a budget was a $36 million budget worldwide box office $160 million. $102,244,770.

Starting point is 00:29:45 Okay. I was going to guess $110 at first, so fine. And I will read you just a couple of the trivia's. The scene where George Dilby Bush is speaking about health care while John and Denise are watching television was also shot with footage of Al Gore because the election winner had not yet been declared at the time of shooting.

Starting point is 00:30:05 Really? The message at the end for Sasha appears just before the end credits. This refers to Sasha Cassavetti's daughter of director, Nick Cassavetes, who I went to middle and elementary school with. A film very much close to director Nick Cassavetti's heart as his own daughter, Sasha, was born with a congenital heart defect. His later film, My Sister's Keeper, was also made to... to charge her medical experiences. I did not know that. I mean, yeah, and all the times

Starting point is 00:30:34 they talk to Sasha, I mean, I don't know if that's something like worth sharing, but we never got into that discussion. So I did not know that I'll have to, I've never seen my sister's keeper. I think Cameron Diaz is in that film. Okay.

Starting point is 00:30:47 But I'll have to, maybe we'll check that sometime. I don't know. Let us know if we should react to that one. I'll read one more and then go to a couple trivias really quick. The scene where Denise calls John from the hospital had to be re-shot because she was

Starting point is 00:31:04 wearing the wrong dress. No! Oh! Script supervisor, no! Yeah. Oh, that must have hurt. She was a trooper. Great performance. Oh, and

Starting point is 00:31:17 about Dr. Memadaz, celebrity surgeon, and then director of the cardiovascular Institute at Columbia, Presbyterian Medical Center in New York, served as heart transplant consultant for the film, which we saw. His hands can be seen in some scenes, showcasing cardiac surgery. Wow.

Starting point is 00:31:32 Dr. Oz's hands. This is where he caught the itch. In the original script, John kills himself. Wow. Wow. They must have added that in at the end. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:31:47 They were probably like, we got, which one do we go with? Yeah, they must have gone back. Maybe they came back around. They were like, this is too grim. I could have seen a version where that would have happened, but I think if you chose,

Starting point is 00:31:59 chose to do that, you would need a more subtle version of the script, I think. And you would be making a different tone of movie. That would be darkly beautiful. No, for sure, you mean not the over-preaching

Starting point is 00:32:15 so much on the healthcare stuff? I guess so, yeah, I guess you would have to... Like, I didn't sit here thinking, like, this movie's preaching, but I could definitely... What the consensus says, I can see how that would be what the complaint is, or what what the consensus is.

Starting point is 00:32:30 I can see it. And I don't always disagree. I just, I, you know, had a, I was still pulled into the movie. But yeah, if they had chosen to do that at the end, I think they would need it a more. And again, I understand where the critics are coming from, I think, because someone who deals with this

Starting point is 00:32:46 on a day-to-day basis, it didn't come off as preachy to me and just more resonating. But I told, I understand, when you say something over and over, as I have been prone to do at nauseam, you know, sometimes in reactions, I will say things over.

Starting point is 00:32:59 and over and not realize it and it's like stop saying that and i i get it not based on a true story however holds similarities with an incident that took place in toronto canada coincidentally where the film was shot in 1999 where a 26 year old man named henry musuku musaka sorry if i mispronceded was shot dead after holding a doctor hostage with an imitation handgun as john q does in the film after his infant son was refused medical assistance. Jesus, man.

Starting point is 00:33:31 That's sad. Yeah, desperate. Yeah, desperate. That's rough. Save a son. Obviously, I'm not saying that's the way you should go, but it's still, I get it.

Starting point is 00:33:39 Desperation will make you do. It's between you and your God at that point. Yeah. Despite its thrilling progression, the cast actually did laugh when the eccentric couple broke up in the hospital. Oh, really?

Starting point is 00:33:51 That's funny. And last one. Communications between the police command post CP and police sniper used the same handles as the 1960s TV series combat

Starting point is 00:34:02 which came out in 1962 with Sergeant Saunders squad as White Rook and Lieutenant Hanley's CP as Checkmate King 2 Checkmate King 2 This is White Rook over Yeah

Starting point is 00:34:14 Cool That stood out Well goodness gracious What did you think of John Q friends Did you grow up With this movie Did you think

Starting point is 00:34:24 it was too pre-reaching? which year were you as affected as we were. Leave us your thoughts down below. And, yeah, what's your favorite Denzel performance? What's your favorite medical thriller? Leave it all down below, and we'll catch you on the next one. And stay healthy out there. Be well.

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