A good movie

I already saw this movie (I even saw it in the movie theater when it was released) but since it was a while back, I thought I might as well check it out again. First of all, I have to admit that, even if I know more or less the rules of baseball, since I'm European, I'm not really familiar with this sport. However, it didn't really matter since this movie was dealing with the business side and, in fact, this story line could have been applied to many other sports. Indeed, they developed here a very interesting theory that sports managers overpay their stars and neglect underrated players who could play for less than half the same price and still are just as effective. So, in Oakland, they bought some undervalued players solely based on their statistics. Unfortunately, they spent very little time actually explaining how it all worked and I wish they did spend more time to explain the whole concept. Honestly, after that, it basically followed the usual pattern of any sport movie (they kept losing and losing and suddenly they kept winning and winning...). Something surprising was that the great Philip Seymour Hoffman showed up in a very thankless role. As usual, he completely disappeared behind his character but he had almost nothing to do during the whole thing except grumbling against this new strategy. On top of that, the real Art Howe was actually supporting the Moneyball concept from the beginning. You had also Jonah Hill who gave a solid performance but I wish they developed his character a little bit more. I mean, he was a geek who could manage statistics pretty well but, aside from that, you pretty much learned nothing about him. What was left was Brad Pitt who basically carried the movie on his shoulders and he did it very well. Indeed, there were so many layers with his character, it was just fascinating to watch. This visionary manager who couldn't stand to lose (the reason why he probably didn't make it as a player) was definitely one of the most convincing performances by Pitt. Anyway, to conclude, it was a very interesting and entertaining sport flick which showed a different side of this world, and, even though I wasn't completely blown away, I really enjoyed it and it is definitely worth a look.