john q the review

the movie begins with this family in america, the archibalds, with he father john the mother denise and their son mikey. their car is being reposessed and they are not making all that much money. it is revealed that the father is not working enough hours at his company because they cannot affored it. anyway some stuff happens you see mikey doing some body building impressions, john going to work and then mikeys baseball game. while running to second base mikey collapses and is taken to hospital. he needs a heart transplant or he will die, but the hospital requires a $75 000 down payment to get mikeys name on the donor list. the family does not have this kind of money and when their insurrance falls through john trys to raise the money. but despite his efforts he fails. with mikey about to be released john gets desperate and holds the emergency room hostage which causes the poilce to come. including hostage negotiator frank something and the cheif of poilce who works for the mayor and as it is an election year he wants to make the situtaion go away quickly.
the movie tackles both the health care issue in america and takes a political thing as well. it challenges the idea that if you are rich in america you get good healthcare but if you are not then you are treated badly.the movie was good and i enjoyed watching it though there are some points where it is kinda boring, it immediately grabs your attention again when john pulls out the gun. the movie was however fairly one sided and didn't talk much about the other side of the healthcare argument. overall i thought it was really good and i would reccomend it to teenagers and olderso that they would be able to appreciate the story more.