Really very good - even if you know nothing about American Rounders

Rating: 9/10 (10 September 2012)

I know next to nothing about baseball, and know little more now. The film confirmed all my suspicions that it really is just rounders on steroids, and I would still not feel inclined to cross the street to watch the sport.
But despite all that this is a great film that I found engrossing from start to finish. It, at its heart, is a story about an organisation in crisis whose only solution to being in a hole was to carry on digging until the hero (well, heroes) say "damn you all" and go a new way.
What is, curiously, even better is that they do not QUITE succeed (it is based on real life events, apparently, so check out the history) which makes it all the more affecting because its like real life. There isn't the perfect, happy, ending - but the world has changed as a result.
Even it you know as much about American Rounders as I do, even if you hate sport, enjoy. Its a good film.