Baseball business

Rating: 7/10 (29 September 2011)

One reviewer I read claimed this movie goes in a approach similar to "The Social Network". This movie isn't really about a baseball team overcoming difficult odds while working as a team, but has to do with the sport outside of the field. The more business side of things where they trade and have conference to win in the game of baseball. And the plot basically revolves around Billy Beane played by Brad Pitt. Who is a general manager for a baseball team. Brad puts on a good performance as a charismatic manager you can't help but like. Although he seemed to try a bit too hard to come off as the cool manager that loves baseball. But his acting was spot on, just didn't stood out to me all that much nor was it all that memorable. Jonah Hill has been getting a lot of praise for his role and I thought he did a good job, nothing all that outstanding but alright. This is a well crafted film and very well directed, the thing is I really am not a fan of baseball so I didn't give a crap about the topic at hand. Maybe that was the case but this movie didn't really grab my attention or emotions, I could sit through it easily for the first watch but just didn't care what happened on screen. Some of the characters even seemed a bit off at times and not believable, like Beane's daughter for one who seemed to care about her dad's job security a bit too much at times. Anyways if your a big fan of baseball, there is a high chance it will grab your attention and actually want to see what is going on. Like the movie "The Social Network" though this is more of a character driven movie that shows what Beane had to go through during the process of the plan that uses stats instead of the traditional way. Instead of delving deeper into the process itself, which was fine for me since I don't care about baseball. To sum it up this is a well crafted movie that the audience will enjoy if they actually care about the sport. It was kind of cool to see a guy trying to reinvent the sport. Although stubborn people that are against change because of the fear of being irrelevant and narrow mindedness tried to hold him down.
7.5/10