Just another film about a sport nobody outside America cares about.

Rating: 6/10 (13 February 2012)

I read from a reviewer that you didn't have to know anything about baseball to enjoy Moneyball and that it was a worthy Oscar nominated movie. He was wrong on both counts. Having nearly seen nearly all this years best picture nominated films i have to say , that apart from Tree of Life , it's been a very average year and Moneyball sums up what i mean.
This is the story of Billy Beane , The General manager of The Oakland Athletics an American baseball team . Beane realises he cannot compete with the big boys financially so along with Peter Brand a statistics and finance wizard , he builds a record winning team out of journeyman Baseball players.
I know nothing about Baseball and because of this i didn't have a clue what was happening when they were discussing the sport. Sure , i understand the fundamentals of the story but it's nowhere near enough to get me interested. Brad Pitt is good as is Jonah Hill but at the end of the day it's bloody a Baseball movie Zzzzzzzzzz.
Moneyball is yet another self obsessed movie about an American sport that the rest of the world cares nothing about and how this gets nominated for an Oscar is beyond me.