This movie as many have endlessly pointed out has alot of messages thrown out. But, does it really matter? We weren't there to listen to the messages. We were there to watch a movie. Performances of others that we paid to see. This movie tackled the Health Care issue (alot yes) but if you were in this situation what would you do? The perfomances were excellent. Denzel was very believable as an American low class worker. The situations could be believable if it wasn't Hollywood telling it. Who would have ever thought that kids would have come to school with guns shooting up their classmates until it happened? Who would have actually thought that another country would defy us as the leading powerhouse nation and use an act of terrorism on us like they did? No one. Point is..you never know what will happen until it does. The situation that John Q created could actually happen no matter what anyone says.
And as for the person(s) that said that John Q was a terrorist in a sympathetic light....not true. He had no intention of hurting anyone. No, no one knew that but him but he did nothing to hurt anyone in the ER. He actually got them help and let them go. So, all in all, this movie is worth seeing! I enjoyed it and would pay to see it again!