A waste of 90 minutes of my life

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

The story of Steve Jobs, a teen who drops college and with a team of friends, starts building the most revolutionary computer the world has ever seen. The development of Apple Computer, from a garage firm to a gigantic corporation is presented in detail along with Steve's complete change in personality. His life, with all its ups and downs, with all his right and wrong decisions regarding mostly his friends, with how he makes the same mistakes as the ones he accused in the past and how he loses his most prized possession and eventually gets it back, receives a lot of credit in this movie.Unfortunately for me, it pays attention only to the beginning of his ascension, and too little to the final part of his life with what he had accomplished after his comeback. The conflict with Microsoft is also only briefly mentioned without detailing the following implications in that way. It is too superficial in this aspects so because of these, its rating lowers considerably. Besides them, the actors play a very good role in reenacting the life of Jobs, from their makeup to their impressive speeches. It's a good biography which focuses mainly on some aspects of history while neglecting others which are in my opinion, as significant as the beginning.

This is not a movie for Apple consumers. I guess the reviews reflect the viewers wishes for this piece to be an eye-candy project. This movie is explaining entrepreneurs journey to success through Steve's life. It's a true story - nothing happens over night. Even when you conquer everything there is to conquer in the industry, there's gonna be patent thieves, rotten non-visionary board members, broken friendships and much more. This is probably the only Kutcher's role where he showed his full potential as an actor.

I'm not a big fan of Ashton Kutcher so I wasn't really looking forward to watching this film, but I was interested in Steve Jobs. The movie starts off slow in my opinion and at times it seemed to drag on a little. I don't think Ashton Kutcher was right to play this part. While he bears a resemblance to Steve Jobs I don't think he fully pulled it off. I didn't like the scene where he tells his pregnant girlfriend to leave and subsequently denies the girl is his daughter, that seemed very shallow to me.Obviously he eventually has a relationship with his daughter. If Steve Jobs was really like that in real life then he wasn't the most nicest person. He seemed like a very intense person who if things didn't go his way then he flipped out. I haven't seen the other Steve Jobs film yet but I'm hoping it's better than this one. I think Ashton should stick to romantic comedies and well... Comedies.

It must be difficult for an actor to convincingly portray a world famous person whose death only two years before means that his image is still relatively fresh in the public consciousness. It must also be pretty tough for filmmakers to portray the life of an iconic figure in the space of two hours. I give "Jobs" (PG-13, 2:02) credit for accomplishing one of those two tasks. (In addition, there was the pressure of knowing that another version of the film was being written by the highly-esteemed Aaron Sorkin.) When it comes to portraying the legend who co-founded Apple computers, Ashton Kutcher does an excellent… Jobs. The actor uses his natural resemblance to the computer genius and adds just enough of Steve Jobs' voice, mannerisms and walk to help us (mostly) forget that we're watching Ashton Kutcher, but he doesn't overdo it by trying to do a perfect impression which could have crossed over into caricature. This film represents some of Kutcher's best work to date, but not quite award worthy.Unfortunately, the script isn't strong enough to give us the whole picture of Steve Jobs' remarkable life. As the film traces the rise, the fall, and then the beginning of the resurrection of Apple the computer brand, the focus is divided too much between the company and the man. If you know more about the life of Steve Jobs, you'll be disappointed when you realize you're not getting to see the full arc of his life. The film would have been better off calling itself "Apple", but even then, I would have found it lacking.This film reminded me of "The Social Network", but without the same level of entertainment in its storytelling. The supporting actors, including Josh Gad as Apple's other founder, Steve Wozniak, Dermot Mulroney, as initial Apple financier and eventual CEO Mike Markkula, and Matthew Modine as John Scully, Markkula's successor as CEO, show the passion that those closest to the company have for Apple, but the film is supposedly about Steve Jobs. While the script does touch on some of Jobs' personal life, it seems much more concerned with the company that he helped start. "Jobs" may give us a measure of the man, but doesn't do the best job at telling his STORY. Doing the best job I can as a reviewer (while still doing my other… jobs), I give this one a "B".