The new movie "The Last Rodeo" is about bull riding in the United States. From a search on ChatGPT, about the hazards of this sport in the United States:
With injury rates of 1440 per 1000 hours, bull riding is 10 times more dangerous than American Football and 13 times more dangerous than Hockey. These injuries include Contusions, Concussions, Shoulder, and Knee with 1-3 deaths annually. Most of these injuries happen during dismounts or when riders are thrown off and subsequently trampled or gored. Considering the insane popularity of watching someone ride a bucking horse or a bull, and the injuries, it is very hard to believe that Bull Riding is a viable sport anywhere in the world.
This story is about a long-retired bull rider, Joe Wainwright, played by Neal McDonough, who almost died from a riding accident many years earlier. Joe's grandson Cody Wainwright, played by Graham Harvey, is gravely ill with a brain tumor and he then decides to enter a bull-riding contest to win money to pay for the complex brain surgery to save his Grandson's life.
Joe reunites with an old friend Charlie Williams, played by Mykelti Williamson, whom he had not seen since his wife died many years earlier. The friendship between these two men is one of the best parts of this movie. At first, it looked like Joe would compete in the over-50 bull riding contest, but for reasons never explained, he winds up competing in the headline bull riding contest, where the prize money is 750,000 dollars.
The other good part about this story is the relationship between Joe's daughter, Sally Wainwright, played by Sarah Jones, which is about the anger Sarah feels towards Joe and his decision to ride again, and what she had to go through when he was almost killed the last time he rode a bull.
The outrage over medical costs in this country and insurance companies, in this story paying only 40% of the total cost of life-saving surgery for a 10-year-old boy, has been a major backstory for many movies over the years, addressing the insanity of medical costs in the United States. With the high probability that this reality will never improve due to the years and criminal abuse that has existed for decades within the medical insurance industry.
The Rotten Tomatoes ratings for The Last Rodeo are a low 73%, mainly because there is nothing new or original in this story, with my rating a solid 75% and a moderate recommendation, due to the acting and the importance of the medical aspect of this story.
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