I can't say I know much about Baseball, either how it's played or how a team is managed, and after seeing Moneyball I can't say my knowledge has expanded that much either. But I can say this is one of the best baseball movies I've ever seen.
Co-writen by Oscar winning screen writer Aaron Sorkin, with all the wit, intelligence, politics and complex jargon that made The West Wing and The Social Network so mesmerising, it's the true story of Brad Pitt's General Manager who runs the major league team with the smallest budget in the league. When Pitt, frustrated by not being able to compete with the wealthier clubs in an unfair system happens across Jonah Hill's statistics analyst who's figured out how to beat the system.
It's brilliant. It's yet another socially relevant tale about income inequality in our society, about resistance to change from both those at the bottom who are frightened of losing what little they have as well as the big boys who are terrified their reign at the top is at an end. And it's also a finely crafted character piece, with Pitt at the absolute centre, who struggles with trying not to be a loser all his life. Pitt is great at what he does and his quite, unshowy charisma is perfect fit for carrying this story.
Moneyball is a fascinating little man against the system tale, with a very human centre. It's also quietly haunting and exciting too, in the most subtle of ways, which sets it above and apart from most other underdog sports movies.
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