Yesterday, we finally got the trailer for the movie ‘Concussion’, starring Will Smith as the Nigerian Dr. Bennet Omalu, who in 2002, discovered a neurodegenerative disease affecting the brains of NFL players.

While the trailer does look pretty great, it has the Oscar nominee sporting a pretty wonky ‘Nigerian’ accent and expectedly Nigerian Twitter had a few things to say about it.

There were the detractors.

https://twitter.com/effaye_wuz_here/status/638551418484297728

https://twitter.com/TonteBoDouglas/status/638478763852963840

https://twitter.com/Tidijii/status/638460774432817152

The people that thought it wasn’t that bad.

https://twitter.com/DrChubbyy/status/638340178105516032

https://twitter.com/mikeodewale/status/638467280930795520

…and the people who thought he actually nailed it.

https://twitter.com/Temi_Evo/status/638602674410246144

Well, personally, I am not crazy about the accent, but I am happy to see a movie about a Nigerian on the big screen. The movie is due out on the 25th of December, 2015.

 

 

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