Interesting Story

Rating: 6/10 (9 January 2016)

I saw "Concussion", starring Will Smith-Focus, The Anchorman movies; Gugu Mbatha-Rwa-Jupiter Ascending, Larry Crowne; Alec Baldwin- Mission:Impossible-Rogue Nation, Rock of Ages and Albert Brooks-This is 40, The In-Laws.
This is based on a true story about the immigrant doctor, Bennet Omalu, that found a connection between severe head trauma in football injuries and the degenerative brain disease CTE-Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. Will plays the doctor that made the NFL mad-it would damage their precious money making sport of football, if his allegations were true, and they were. Will plays the Nigerian pathologist that was working as a coroner in Pittsburgh when he first found the evidence. He even thought that the NFL would be happy that he brought it to their attention-Boy, was he naive! Of course, the NFL denied any connection between the deaths and the new found disease and even brought out their own evidence saying the opposite of Will's-sort of like the tobacco industry did with the 'Smoking is not bad for you' campaigns. Football players start turning up on Will's table and they all show signs of aggression, suicidal tendencies and early dementia which led to their deaths. Oh yeah, they are only in their 40's & 50's when this happens. Will goes to his boss, Albert, and tells him that the repeated blows to the head are not good for the players-Duh! Gugu plays Will's love interest and Alec plays the Pittsburgh team doctor. As the end credits start, they tell you what the good doctor is doing now and what happened with the NFL and what they have done about the problem. It's rated "PG-13" for disturbing images and language and has a running time of 2 hours & 3 minutes. It's not one that I would buy on DVD-one viewing was fine-but it would be a good rental.