Brad Pitt does it all through his break through performance !!!

Rating: 8/10 (30 December 2011)

A true story about a baseball team's general manager and how he used computer gimmicks to analyze the performance of individual player and led it to 20 win record. The movie was very well directed along with riveting performances by Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill. Billy Beane( Brad Pitt) is under pressure with the lowest salary constraint in his baseball team. To salvage his team's reputation to win the world series championship, he takes help from Peter Brand (Jonah Hill) to analyze the statistics of the individual team player and uses the data to re-invent the team. He faces lot of criticism from his management, coach but things takes a Topsy turn when the Oakland A's begins to win the streak of games and records a 20 consecutive win for the first time in 103 years of American League baseball. Moneyball is inspired by true story of Billy Beane and is based on a novel of the same name. Bennet Miller , director of Oscar nominated "Capote" has done a full justice to a very motivational story of a man who silenced his detractors after facing lot of criticism. The script was handled very efficiently along with a powerful performance by Brad Pitt. His acting has grown over the years and this we can observe from the choice of films he is doing. He emotes everything through his eyes and expression itself makes this film worth a watch. This is first time Jonah Hill has taken a serious role and he was very impressive as in the supporting role. Philip Seymour was just about OK in a small role. An actor of his caliber could have been given more meatier role. The cinematography was outright with soothing background score. Overall , an amazing inspiring sports film which is definitely worth a watch thanks to enduring performance by Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill and superb direction. Very good : 4/5