Will Smith stars in Concussion, a dramatic thriller based on the incredible true David vs. Goliath story of American immigrant Dr. Bennet Omalu, the brilliant forensic neuropathologist who made the first discovery of CTE, a football-related brain trauma, in a pro player and fought for the truth to be known. Omalu’s emotional quest puts him at dangerous odds with one of the most powerful – and beloved – institutions in the world. With captivating performances by Alec Baldwin and Academy Award® nominee Albert Brooks (1987 Best Supporting Actor, Broadcast News).
This movie stars Will Smith as a Nigerian immigrant to America named Dr. Bennet Omalu, who is very scrupulous in his job of performing autopsies. He discovers that the brains of former football players who have become mentally ill and committed suicide don't look like they're damaged anatomically, but functionally, they are, as the repetitive head trauma from football playing causes their brains to malfunction as they're jarred out of place.
By the end of the movie, it's evident that the movie is not preaching to you about HOW to amend the current situation, but exposing a problem which the NFL tried to cover up for years. The NFL's response to the issue is similar in ways to the tobacco and soft drink industries, which rigged the studies designed to investigate them so that they wouldn't be held accountable. But rather than an overt "message movie" exposing corruption and calling for social change, the movie "Concussion" is mostly focused on telling the story of a heroic individual, but that human emphasis on Dr. Omalu incorporates elements of a message movie, drama, suspense, romance, immigrant story, and legal drama.
Will Smith has said in interviews that he has a harder time enjoying watching football now, because of what he learned by doing this movie. When he was producing The Karate Kid remake which starred his son Jaden, he would go back and forth from Beijing to Los Angeles and back to Beijing each weekend for 10 solid weeks to watch his oldest son play high school football, because he loved football that much. (GQ.com story entitled "Football Lover Will Smith on Playing the Man Who Fought the NFL") He felt a moral obligation to play the role because he wants people to be aware of the risks.
He was kind of reluctant going into the role because he felt compelled by the Nigerian immigrant doctor's story, but because he loved football so much, he kind of wanted to get out of playing it. In his performance, he masters the accent of the Nigerian immigrant doctor perfectly, and I think his performance and Tobey Maguire's Bobby Fischer performance in "Pawn Sacrifice" were two of the most engrossing biographical performances in recent history, and both happen to be in this same year of 2015.
The music is, like most movies, not very memorable, and the visual hue tends to be grim and not have many bright images, but the movie is definitely engrossing. Close-ups are overused, in my opinion, and the editing sometimes could've been more concise, but I think it's well-written and well-acted. It is the performance of Will Smith that carries the movie more than anything else. I hope to learn more about the true and false parts of the story, and that the movie inspires some drastic change for people's health's sake.
Once truth has been revealed, it becomes people's duty to respond to it responsibly, and hopefully there will be some change to how the game of football is played because of it. It was quite a gutsy movie for Sony to produce and for every actor who signed on to it. Hopefully it will do more than just inform people, but actually lead to some changes. As Dr. Omalu says in the movie, God didn't create people to handle impact to their heads like woodpeckers can
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