They made a 2 hour movie from a 90 min story. To long and gets boring pretty fast.

As a big baseball fan and also a fan of baseball stats, I really liked "Moneyball". Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill were really entertaining as Billy Beane and Peter Brand, two men who applied some mad math skills to build a major league team on a shoestring budget. I think anybody who appreciates a good drama will be very satisfied watching this film. Again, as someone who likes baseball, I found it to be an entirely engrossing movie until the Athletics season ended. After that,"Moneyball" focused a bit too much on off the field affairs and things dragged toward the end.

Its sad how close this movie is from being great instead of good. The problem is that the last act the movie really starts to drag. I liked it up to that point and it has a good ending but it really could have been trimmed down. Still a good movie, with a good twist on the concept of baseball but could have been executed better.

I quite enjoyed it because it wasn't your typical sports movie and focused on the management/recruiting and trading side... and I'm not much of a sports fan either so the financial/maths elements are probably why it appealed to me more than other sports movies.

Love this! 'Moneyball' is sensational! I enjoyed every second of the 134 minute run time. Great acting, brilliantly shot, notably scored, nicely paced - all of that and more. Even at the beginning of the film, where it's basically just the (you'd assume dull) board meetings/negotiations, I was already gripped. Everything then builds to the action, which eventually arrives to give things a new lease of life. Never a boring moment, at least for me. The sporting side is ideally told, despite the sizeable use of real life footage as opposed to newly captured content - which was a smart call, by the way. All the while connecting the characters and making us care for them. Brad Pitt plays lead as Billy Beane, fantastically I must add. He gives the perfect performance, absolutely nothing to negatively note about it - except the cup spitting, though that's a film thing rather than him. Jonah Hill is also impressive here, as he's suited to composite character Peter Brand well. The support cast are ace too, namely Philip Seymour Hoffman (Art Howe). It's all riveting stuff. I am a sports fan, though not of baseball and yet the film inspires enough that it even made me semi-interested in following the game for real. I was expecting this to produce the goods, just not to such a high degree. I couldn't recommend this more!