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"Steve Jobs" is a burst of creative energy as well as a meaningful take on our relationship to technology and the complex figure behind it all. The screenplay, acting, direction, score, and editing are all orchestrated to perfection Aaron Sorkin's script takes us backstage before three major product launches in Steve Jobs' career. The unique experience of the film revolves around this unconventional approach and Sorkin's witty, nonstop dialogue. The film forces you to remain upright and attentive as you try to absorb the densely packed dialogue, but this doesn't feel like a chore; it's more like a privilege. This is because the dialogue is genius, filled with lines so insightful and clever you'll take them for granted as they constantly zoom by. Of course, the dialogue isn't much without great delivery, and the cast more than delivers. Leading the ensemble cast is Michael Fassbender, whose Steve Jobs unrelentingly manipulates the reality around him to fit the illusion that he's in command of his own world. He does this with distant emotional suppression and a harsh, cold exterior. His genius is there as well, and because of this, we can see how his egoism has gotten him so far, despite the poor way he treats others. Fassbender shows us all of this through his performance, avoiding the classification of simply being a "****", his performance is far too complex for that. Fassbender is not the ideal person to play Jobs in fact Ashton Kutcher's performance in the the 2013 film "Jobs" had more resemblance to the real guy and more naturalism but Fassbender captures his essence through his abrasive perfectionism and his need to always have his way. Each scene is a sort of duel between Jobs and another character. Each character helps to bring about a different part of Jobs and each appears in each of the film's three parts either through working with him or by visiting him. Of course, this isn't likely the way things played out in reality, but Sorkin isn't trying to hide that. The way that the conflicts between the many characters played out were fantastic, with each player getting their own intense climax. Appearing most often among these supporting players is Kate Winslet in one of her finest performances as Joanna Hoffman, who makes it believable that her character can stand up to Jobs all the time, able to keep up with him through subtle understanding and care. Seth Rogen is excellent as well, proving himself to be a promising dramatic actor. Michael Stuhlberg gives an empathetic performance as Andy Hertzfeld and Jeff Daniels was effective even if he mostly met expectations from the roles he's been doing recently. Katherine Waterson was great as well as his ex-partner Chrisann Brennan, going up against Fassbender with fierce sarcasm. Each of these actors gets at least one moment to shine, and boy do they shine when it's their turn in the spotlight. But possibly the most important character is Steve Jobs' daughter, played by three amazing young actresses (Makenzie Moss, Ripley Sobo and Perla Haney-Jardine). The younger two convey an aching longing for a father figure when they're around the neglectful Jobs, and the oldest is a more mature version, understanding her father's flaws through the hole he's left in her life. Jobs' daughter is the emotional center of the film, and this center really is emotional at times. We can see how Jobs' neglect is suppressed and that it represents his biggest flaw. Jobs is unable to acknowledge mankind for its shared beauty, instead using his life to selfishly regain a lack of control that he feels as a result of his adoption as a child. The film expresses this theme not only through Jobs' character, but through the products he made. "A computer is not a painting," Wozniak constantly says to Steve, though which he traditionally replies, "**** you." Jobs initially wanted to remove all compatibility options from the computer because of this viewpoint because he fails to understand technology and the human race as a collaborative effort. Although Jobs succeeded in many ways through his arrogance, the film argues that letting others in can lead to even greater accomplishments. Danny Boyle's typical visual extravagance is unleashed here at times, but he can be effectively restrained as well. He is great at capturing the hyper pacing of the digital age, making the film relevant by making Jobs feel like he's the very center of the technological revolution. Boyle takes scenes of pure dialogue and amps them up to create some seriously thrilling sequences. Some shots from the film are quite flashy and delicious, so creative compositionally that they should be placed in film textbooks. It would be wrong not to credit the editing and cinematography for much of this as well. Daniel Pemberton's score is pulsating, bouncy electronics keep a rhythmic pace to the film that is effectively modern, and the more orchestrated tracks levitate scenes, making them feel virtuosic.

Aaron Sorkin gives the Apple co-founder some close scrutiny in this unflattering portrait, cleverly framed around three key product launches. Caught at his most over-stressed, Jobs often comes off as both the smartest man in the room and the most heartless, a difficult mix that's expertly managed by Michael Fassbender in the leading role. Fassbender doesn't even remotely look the part, but his ruthless conviction and forceful, melting gaze make the act easy to swallow despite the physical dissimilarities. This is also true of Seth Rogen, who seems a bizarre choice to play celebrated engineer Steve Wozniak, but pulls it off against all odds in several tastefully limited appearances. This isn't the typical biopic, spanning a figure’s entire life and spinning it all into one grand, epic journey with a happy ending. Instead, it's a concise, efficient peek through the window at three turning points in the man's history: his biggest gamble (Macintosh), his greatest spin (NeXT) and his ultimate redemption (iMac). The products get their moments to shine, as does Jobs's infamous penchant for micro-management, but the real focus is his relationship with an unwanted, rejected daughter and the betrayal of an adoptive pseudo-father. There's warmth in the script, and in its focal figure, but also a terrible, heartbreaking coldness on both fronts that seems painfully real. Steve Jobs may not give us the whole story (several especially heavy moments are fabricated in the name of plot) but it's enough to convey a better understanding of its subject as a human being, warts and all. A terrific effort, moving and entertaining the whole way through, that merits watching whether you love the ubiquitous brand or loathe it.

One of the year's real surprises for **** sure why I would be surprised, but I was. I expect Michael Fassbender and Kate Winslet to be great,and they were. The rest of the cast was terrific too, with Jeff Daniels giving his best performance in years and Katherine Waterston giving another charismatic turn (after INHERENT VICE). Danny Boyle as director. Aaron Sorkin scripting. What's not to like? I went into the film having heard little about its "unorthodox" approach to exploring Steve Jobs. In case you hadn't heard, we learn about Jobs through three lengthy "scenes" of him backstage just before some major product launches. We see him interact with "staff." We see him interact with peers. With former mentors. With those closest to him. We get to see how his brain works. How his brilliance sometimes overcame his tendency to be a major, grade-A jerk (and sometimes, it didn't.) We get to know Steve Jobs, THE MAN. We do NOT really get to know Steve Jobs, the life story. If that's what you're looking for, you will be disappointed. This is a blisteringly paced, intelligent, character study. In some ways it feels like THE SOCIAL NETWORK (another Sorkin script, another tech giant who is a **** similarities are surface only. Sorkin writes in a recognizable way (a way which I find insufferable for TV, like WEST **** seems to work in two hour cinematic doses). But SOCIAL NETWORK tells a more traditional narrative, moving through many moments in time. STEVE JOBS examines the man's behavior during 3 critical moments in his life. (There are a few flashbacks, too). It shows how evolves, or **** it doesn't give you the "story of Apple." If a movie has great, juicy dialogue handled by actors of skill...I'm a happy camper. I love Tarantino. I love this film for that same reason. Talk and talk and talk and talk. I relished it. Fassbender is so very skillful. His verbal sparring with Daniels or Seth Rogan or Waterston is such fun. Winslet is there providing subtle but steady **** is almost standing in for "us". She's someone who very much admires Jobs but is also horrified by his behavior. As his long time assistant, she can say things to him no one else can (doesn't mean he listens though). For me, this whole movie was just very intellectually stimulating, and it revealed Steve Jobs very well. Does it ACCURATELY reveal Jobs? Who knows? How can anyone know if a biography accurately depicts its subject. But this film, under the very capable direction of the always interesting Danny Boyle (even when he fails, his movies are interesting), presents a completely credible version of this towering figure. He's both very human and very larger-than-life. I know going forward, whenever I think of Steve Jobs, I will be inserting THIS Steve Jobs into my mental picture. And, in case I didn't make it clear before, Fassbender is great here. If you are a fan of his, or a fan of great acting, you should see this film, even if you don't care about Steve Jobs. This guy never fails to be less than interesting on screen. Not all his movies succeed (this film certainly didn't "succeed" for a lot of viewers) BUT he does not fail.

7.5/10 I was one of those people who really like Ashton Kutcher's Jobs that many people didn't really like, one of the great thing about Ashton Kutcher's Jobs is his portrayal of the man, from the first second i saw him as Steve Jobs i believe it was him, with Michael Fassbender's Steve Jobs i did have some quite a time to process and try to believe him as Jobs and i finally did believe him but just in the last hour of the movie, the first 50 minutes of the film in terms of a scene i think it was great, my only problem is just me still trying to believe and process Michael Fassbender's as Steve Jobs and that's it, the scene with Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen, and especially Katherine Waterson were absolutely great and so do they' re performance throughout the film, after that there is this 10 minutes of boring scene with Jeff Daniels which of course i didn't like, then the last hour of the film which i have no problem at all, i think the last hour of the film was just fantastic and i even dare to s ay that the last hour of Steve Jobs was better than whole movie of Jobs but then of course that's not how it works and overall movie i do still prefer Ashton Kutcher's Jobs than this, but that doesn't mean Michael Fassbender's Steve Jobs was bad, i think overall movie Michael Fassbender's Steve Jobs was pretty good.

Great cast and excellent acting but there's no story, it's just long scenes mostly focusing on three launches of products, the Macintosh, the NEXT Cube, and the iMac, and some of his relationship or non relationship with his daughter. Most of what I know about Steve Jobs is from this movie but even with what little I know I get the feeling that this movie tried to make him look like a better person than he was. It's really sad that we give free passes to losers like him.

This film depicts the greatest achievements of Steve Jobs. On the other hand, we can see his problems and ups and downs, which are really admirable but do not have very high potential.

On my MacBook, of course. All the film in the keynotes, the good idea, but soothing exchanges that end up annoying. What about the iPhone?

Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin and the acting performances by Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet and Seth Rogen are enough to give this movie 10 stars out of 10, not mentioning the editing, the cinematography and costume&decorations design

Michael Fassbender was fantastic but apart from that it wasn't amazing. It started off really good but it sort of got a bit boring as it went on.

Steve Jobs engages from start to finish. The premise of the film taking place at three separate unveilings is **** fantastic. The dialogue crafted by Sorkin for the most part is great - even if at times it comes across a tad over the top. Seth Rogen is the highlight of the film, and Michael Fassbender also brings a strong performance as the title character. An overall well created movie.

A great movie, even without the famous name of Steve Jobs this film would be an entertaining watch

I am a big Aaron Sorkin fan, but Steve Jobs is probably the worst thing he has ever done. The story is so strangely cliche, it's over melodramatic, and the dramatic payoff is somehow simultaneously unbelievable and a huge let down. Michael Fassbender gives an okay performance, but he makes Steve Jobs come off as a gigantic, passionless jerk for no reason. This movie is too boring, too long, too predictable, and has entirely too much scenery chewing that tries to disguise itself as dramatic action. The movie is produced competently, but it's completely unremarkable.

Another very good Danny Boyle film with great acting, writing and music. Constant chatter starts to drag though.

The film is almost like an Apple product itself; it's smart, streamlined, aesthetically pleasing, and very accessible. It also has plenty of dark humour and genuine emotion to spare.

Incredible perfectly.Michael Fassbender shows us best performance of him.This movie has no sexuality or **** for language.

My issues with this movie are: 1. Some of the lines are good and not phenomenal as the rest. 2. Boyle's direction is very good and not striking and risk-taking as Sorkin's screenplay. Yes, this is how perfect this movie is! This movie is the reason why I believe that Aaron Sorkin is the best screenwriter ever. Steve Jobs is one of the easiest movies to criticize, one of the most exhausting movies to watch, and it's the best movie to listen to! (9/10)

La película literalmente nos lleva tras bambalinas a los dramas de Steve Jobs y la marca Apple. Es un acercamiento interesante a la alienación de Jobs y su empatía. Tiene un ritmo muy monótono y la actuación de Michael Fassbender deja algunas dudas. Se siente que puedo ser algo más, sin embargo no es un mal producto sólo uno con un potencial desaprovechado.

Compelling back stage story of the PC genius. Danny Boyle and Aaron Sorkin makes a remarkable job without the typical heroic portrait, focusing in an unseen angle. Fassbender is brilliant in the main role.

it is not binary.. Steve Jobs How many biographies are made nowadays? And how many of them gets it right? This is not one of those, this is a movie that limelight's the part of this genre which was untouched over the years. The movie is depicted with such a grace that it is inhuman to not break down in the end of it which is quite surprising considering its genre. Steve Jobs is not just a good movie that came across this year, it was written, acted and executed out so perfectly to find a lose thread in there that is editable. Danny Boyle sets the bar of the biographies to a new place where it seems almost impossible to even touch it let along surpass it for the premise is way too interesting to not invest in it and above all; his execution, each and every detail hits the perfect note. Aaron's writing behind the screen is completely visible and it stands alone in its own tone and environment and is still palpable to not only survive but triumph over it. Michael Fassbender as the protagonist is the most human any actor can ever be and along with a great support cast like Kate, Seth, Katherine and Jeff, Danny creates more from it than it was aspired or even dared too. Steve Jobs is filled with compelling arguments, rigorous emotions, eerie perspective, stellar performances, fast paced sequences and perfectly edited feature that even though being a talkative natured script for 2 complete hours won't let you wander your eyes away from the screen.

This movie gave me a whole new look on Steve Jobs and Apple i didn't know. What a terrible guy he was to work with. The movie gives Steve Jobs his hard side, but also his soft side. They were balanced really well. It was a very interesting movie and i learned a lot from it. Great performance by Michael Fassbender and a surprising good job from Seth Rogen, who mostly stars in comedies.

Steve Jobs... It started off as a casual Sunday movie, but it quickly caught my attention from the beginning till the end (with minor irrelevant plot points that were not really necessary). The surprise is that I wasn't expecting this movie to be that entertaining (seeing as the last Steve Jobs movie was a semi-disaster). Michael Fassbender actually did an amazing job as Steve Jobs and his characters' qualities, flaws, emotions and basically evolution were simply something worth noticing / rooting for and payed off in the end and throughout the entire movie. The rest of the cast and the story were enjoyable all in all leading to a well written and conclusive story (biography) of a real life person that changed the world (IT industry) as we know it. I am new at this review "thing", so please feel free to share your thoughts on my review. Thank you!

First, I have to mention about accomplished acting of Michael Fassbender and Seth Rogen who is usually known for his roles in comedy movies. I can say that the movie couldn't live up to my expectations. It would be more appropriate if the name of the movie was "Steve Jobs: Macintosh and Lisa" for the sake of meeting the viewers' expectations. Because, his marriage, relationship with Pixar, his illness and many important subjects were not mentioned in the movie.

Set behind the scenes at three product launches, the Macintosh, NeXT and iMac, this film explores the world of digital revolution to look on the progress of technology and the private life of the CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs. But the emphasis of this movie are the rip-roaring moments and intensifying events backstage before the launches of his three mentioned iconic products. This film has three acts which represents the three time periods of Jobs' career entirely shown by adrenaline-fueled dialogue. It turns 120 minutes of talking into an interesting movie written fantastically by Aaron Sorkin. It is also extremely well-acted by its actors: Steve Jobs is played by Michael Fassbender, who gives the performance of his career. It also stars Kate Winslet, Jeff Daniels, Katherine Waterston and Seth Rogen, who all nailed it, in terms of performances. It is an energetic movie with a strong direction from Danny Boyle. But Steve Jobs is not a movie for everyone. Some would be bored and not interested, but if you like dialogue-driven films, Steve Jobs would be an investing movie for you. VERDICT: Sorkin, Boyle and Fassbender work magic together.

shot greatly, saw things i didn't think i'd want to know but i do know not. but i would have love to see the creation of the ipod aswell and the latter part of his life. The movie also Heavily demands your focus, you can't take a pee break because there is so much dialogue that you will miss alot of important talking. + after seeing ashton kutcher as steve jobs( not the best actor) i can not unsee it, while watching him you really thought that was steve jobs because of the looks, here.. i had to keep reminding myself that its steve

This movie's awesome! It incorporates all of the elements of Steve Job's life at different periods of time in clever visual (first part in 16mm, second part in 35mm, third part digital) and audible (analog-sounding score in first part, opera in second part, digital-sounding score in third part) ways.

A ton of build up and drama x3. its like watching the preparal for a heist then not seeing the heist. 3 times. .....................................

Steve Jobs is a film that has some flaws, but above all, it defiantly strikes home just how brilliant Aaron Sorkin is a writer. Steve Jobs be damned. Actors be damned. The film is all about Sorkin, which is both a gift and a curse. With every Sorkinism in the book (the film is 94% walking and talking), Steve Jobs is a magnifying, dense, and structural behemoth with writing that steals the showcase and refuses to let anyone else steal the spotlight. No matter how brilliant Michael Fassbender is as Jobs or Kate Winslet as Joanna Hoffman, the writing is the star of this play. The tragic flaw in this is that it loses sight of its main character. Though the film is about Steve Jobs, it feels oddly formatted. I am fine with them skipping over the reveals and just focusing on the background conversations before the reveals. However, it should have focused more on the aftermath. The failures, the personal turmoil, and Steve Jobs' firing more. It touched on it, but never with any depth. Instead, it demands Steve Jobs to show emotion and show his hand, but he is incapable of doing this. Thus, much of the film falls on deaf ears. It is cool to look at, well shot, well acted, and the dialogue is impeccable. But, it lacks any weight. This is why the best was saved for last with Steve's conversation with his daughter Lisa (Perla Haney-Jardine). With the weight that the rest of the film demanded, the dialogue in the sequence and the emotional power of it all made me want to jump up and celebrate. When Jobs finally opens up and shows his human side to his daughter, the film is a resounding success. The end shot that fades slowly as Jobs walks the stage and looks back lovingly at Lisa is absolutely impeccable. In one scene, Danny Boyle encapsulated everything that makes cinema wonderful. The cinematic strength and power of that final scene is unlike that I have seen in a long, long time. Immaculate is the perfect word for it. Unfortunately, the rest of the film just lacks any of that power. Not even a hint of that heart. The film is unwilling to vilify Jobs as well for his inadequacies as a father and a person. Bracing the audience for every punch by reminding us just how brilliant he was and what a visionary he was, every time we are shown that he is an **** we still come away thinking, "Yeah, but he's innovative". As if that is some accomplishment. That said, it does a good job capturing the two sides of Jobs. While they do not gel together, Sorkin captures Jobs at his most assholish states as well as at his most brilliant. It is hard to place your finger on the man, maybe because he was a diverse human being with two sides. Thus, my complaint may be silly, but all the same, it felt tonally off as a result of not following through with either the vilification or the celebration. Though there was some attempt at the latter in the aforementioned conversation with Lisa, it hardly makes up for the rest of the film when he treats everyone in his life like garbage. On the positive side, there are a lot of strengths to this film. Fassbender and Winslet are brilliant. Jeff Daniels' turn as Apple CEO John Scully is as impressive as always. Seth Rogen is shockingly good as Steve Wozniak. Michael Stuhlbag, an always terrific character actor, is phenomenal as Andy Hertzfeld. It is a shame he did not get more recognition. Danny Boyle's direction is assured as always. Though, it feels very different than many of his other films. Trainspotting, 28 Days Later, Slumdog Millionaire, and 127 Hours, all had a similar Eisensteinian kind of feeling to them. Packed with conflict in the editing with scenes, quick cuts, and I do not really know how to describe **** authentic feeling maybe? They feel raw, unfiltered, and natural. Steve Jobs is far more Hollywoodized with camera work more along the lines of the typical Aaron Sorkin film. Tracking shots like ones straight out of Goodfellas are the norm here and in his films as the camera struggles to keep up with the characters. Steve Jobs is a mirror image of all of his past works in this regard. The writing is very dense and detailed, but so is the direction. The writing is obviously dense with obscure references and big words to match the brilliance of Jobs. The direction, however, is equally as detailed. One example that I feel brings this to light the best is when Jobs is arguing with Wozniak before the launch of the iMac. As Wozniak storms off after Jobs refused to acknowledge the Apple2 team yet again, the screen behind Jobs changes to the Apple logo and tagline, "Think Different". A small detail in a film with many subtleties, but appreciated nonetheless. Steve Jobs is a tough film to truly assess. With incredible writing and direction, is undeniably brilliant artistically. The film itself is wildly entertaining. Watching this brilliance, Sorkin's language, and Sorkin's conversations is never boring. Yet, as a biopic, it feels like it never let's you in. It feels too distant.

Steve Jobs is an interesting film about an interesting person. Michael Fassbender was brilliant as the title character and really succeeded in portraying Jobs as unlikeable but weirdly appealing and charismatic at the same time. Seth Rogen, Kate Winslet, Jeff Danials and Michael Stuhlbarg were all great as well. They all deserve Oscar nominations! Looking at what went on backstage at the launch of various important Apple products, the movie focuses on Steve Jobs' relationships with his co-workers and with his daughter. The movie is never boring despite being set almost entirely in different rooms and corridors. The dialogue is rapid and really compelling. In short, Steve Jobs is an intriguing look at one of the great pioneers of technology.

A painful movie to watch. The false plot device of having all these major emotional scenes take place before major product launch was trite and overwrought. Movie just never came together. Read the book but avoid this movie, a total bust.

Danny Boyle and Aaron Sorkin create an original and complex tribute to a truly fascinating character in Steve Jobs, defined by a masterful performance from Michael Fassbender at his very best.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

How do you get to the bottom of a character like Steve Jobs, a figure so towering and complex that he could arguably serve as the basis of a film as ambitious as Citizen Kane? If you’re a dramatist with the character insight and verbal dexterity of Aaron Sorkin, you make him the vortex of a swirling human hurricane, the puppet master who kept all around him on strings, the impresario of a circus dedicated to the creation and dramatic unveiling of technological wonders that changed the world. Racing in high gear from start to finish, Danny Boyle’s electric direction temperamentally complements Sorkin’s highly theatrical three-act study, which might one day be fascinating to experience in a staged setting. With its high-profile launches at the Telluride, New York and London film festivals, this Universal release is clearly positioned as one of the prestige titles of the fall season, and will be high priority viewing for discerning audiences around the world. Conceptually, Sorkin’s work is structured like a play, as the three roughly forty-minute sections are set backstage as Jobs, who has been invested with equal parts hubris and focus by Michael Fassbender, prepares to launch three of his major products: The Macintosh in 1984, the NeXT “Cube” in 1988 and the iMac in 1998. The same subsidiary characters swirl in and out: Jobs’ feisty and invaluable marketing executive Joanna Hoffman (Kate Winslet), tech genius and early partner Steve Wozniak (Seth Rogen), Mac software designer Andy Herzfeld (Michael Stuhlbarg), Apple chief executive John Sculley (Jeff Daniels), perennially shunned ex-girlfriend Chrisann Brennan (Katherine Waterston) and the latter’s daughter with Jobs, Lisa (Makenzie Moss, then Perla Haney-Jardine). The actors are uniformly superb. The dramatic, dynamic linking all these characters is that everyone wants something from the young Zeus of their world that they cannot get. The specifics differ in each case, but they all boil down to the desire for acknowledgment of their value from a difficult and withholding man, one famous for abusing his underlings, keeping them guessing about where they stand and rejecting their ideas only to later claim them as his own. As with Kirk Douglas’ ambitious movie producer in The Bad and the Beautiful in another era, the boss treats even those closest to him very badly but, in the end, his intimates and associates so desperately crave his approval that they keep coming back for more. Following a disarming black-and-white clip of Arthur C. Clarke in 1974, accurately extolling a future in which computers will “enrich our society” and be as commonplace as telephones, Boyle and Sorkin jump ahead just ten years and plunge right into the mad moments before Jobs is to take the stage in Cupertino to introduce the Mac to a panting public, which has already had its appetite whetted by Ridley Scott’s brilliant 1984 Super Bowl commercial. Jobs (who was just 29 at the time) was never anything other than cool and composed before the public, but conditions backstage could not be more chaotic: Jobs insists to his frazzled tech wizard Hertzfeld that the Mac itself must say “hello” to the crowd and demands that the exit signs be (illegally) turned off, Woz badgers him to publicly acknowledge the old Apple II team and Chrisann picks this moment to show up with little Lisa and give him hell for not acknowledging his daughter and providing for them. As he has repeatedly shown in the past, Sorkin has a gift for writing the elevated gab of brainiacs, which has made him an ideal chronicler of such modern-age titans as Mark Zuckerberg and now Jobs. That said, The Social Network and Steve Jobs are radically different in their approaches to drama and character. But whereas David Fincher’s direction of the former provided an incisive, and often quite funny, sense of cool to the former, Boyle’s fast-heartbeat pacing and quasi-verite style provides the new film with a constant dramatic hum and you-are-there immediacy. Propulsively fast, fleet and inquisitive, the film is at the same time somewhat less flashy than most of Boyle’s most famous and successful works, including Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire and 127 Hours. Due to its “backstage” setting and approximate real-time frame, Jobs can’t help but provoke memories of the recent Birdman, which breathtakingly covered continuous action with unprecedented fluidity. Boyle’s sophisticated but pragmatic visual approach to evoking a maelstrom of activity stands somewhere between that and more conventional cinema-verite, befitting, perhaps, the period in which it’s set. The Jobs legend keeps on growing.

So interesting to see behind the scenes, what makes these well known people tick, what's really going on inside their heads. I thought Steve Jobs was an idea man, someone who had these fantastic ideas for products, then made them come true. By this movie, he was a control freak not only in business but in his private life as well. Kinda explains why he died.

One of the worst movies i've ever sat through. It was basically one scene after another after another of Jobs arguing or having conflict with every person in his life. I have no idea how accurate it was but i suspect its unlikely his life was that negative. there wasn't even any beautiful scenery or decent cinematography to balance out the depression, it was shot like a poor quality documentary. At any rate, the movie was a huge downer and the only thing it succeeds in is raising your blood pressure.

Steve Jobs is directed by Danny Boyle and written by Aaron **** stars Michael Fassbender as Jobs,other supporting cast include Kate Winslet,Seth Rogen,Katherine Waterston,Michael Stuhlbarg and Jeff Daniels The movie explores Steve Jobs and it's divided in three parts on different time periods.Steve Jobs is completely about dialogue,so many people can be bored endlessly if they only want action in movies and excitement but thankfully I am one of those people who appreciate dialogue driven films. It doesn't go through the entire life of Steve Jobs and obviously many important elements were left out on that aspect but it is not what the movie's about at ****'re here to see how he got to be the Steve Jobs that we all know,to see why he is who he is and with the help of the amazing dialogue written by Aaron Sorkin we get it. Michael Fassbender gives one of the best performances of the entire year and so does Kate Winslet.Some of the scenes including the father-daughter story line are very emotional and build on the character and likability of Steve.Also,Fassbender nails every single scene he is in so having him on screen in between these emotional,dialogue scenes just makes everything perfect. I really like the way the entire movie was played out to us,the dialogue is great and so is the **** director did a fantastic job here,but he did have one of the best screenwriters working today to help him out,which concluded to an amazingly rich and thrilling movie.

Pretty impressive narration, a better version out there for now. US film or UK film is not an issue, but the real question was the second movie required? Plenty of films are made in a short period of gap about the same person like 'Infamous' and 'Capote', themes like 'Olympus Has Fallen' and 'White House Down', and sometimes remakes like 'Deaths at a Funeral' from other film industries. So the history says audience accepts only they are different from each other and so this film was, but very very sad it bombed at the box office. Like everybody I was not interested in this, even though it was from a renowned filmmaker. But after watching it now, I felt I was terribly wrong. Actually, this is the best version so far about the Apple Inc co-founder Steve Jobs. It was entirely a different narration than the previous one, everything was like the backstage drama that takes place before every product launch. That means most of the film was shot in the auditoriums and its corridor, parking lot, rooftop, and other surround places. All the affairs like family, friends, co-founders, business, troubles et cetera are brought into one place and dealt there itself. Surely a very cleverly written screenplay and display by the actors, especially the two Oscars nominee Michael Fassbender and Kate Winslate. Once again Danny Boyle proved his directional skill with this beautiful biopic. I did not LIKE the end scene, but LOVED it. In fact, this film's end and Ashton Kutcher film's opening scenes has a clean follow. I also felt the movie was very honest, but I don't how much since I'm not into the books to learn about the famous personalities. It's not a must see, but definitely worth a try. 8/10

This film is brilliantly written by Aaron Sorkin with terrific performances from Michael Fassbender and Kate Winslet. Be prepared this film is pretty much just dialogue. Dialogue that teaches you everything about the lead character. A-

Incredibly boring film. It seems Jobs spent his entire life attending new product presentations. I don't like Apple products but I wanted to know more about this extraordinary man - unfortunately I feel I learned nothing about him from this 2 hours of tedium.

I guess it all comes down to how you want to remember Steve Jobs -- the guru who inspired a following of devoted Apple users or a self-absorbed entrepreneur who seized the moment, leaving behind him a trail of disgruntled co-founders, workers and former lovers. This movie takes the latter approach, but contrary to what some may think, Boyle and Sorkin make Jobs human, richly so in fact, and I think in time even those who have criticized this movie will come to regard it as the best testament of his legacy. Whether or not Lisa was his daughter matters little. What matters is how Lisa becomes the muse around which Jobs built his ideas. From the start, the Apple was designed to be a user-friendly home computer that would become the "bicycle" for our ideas. A young Lisa immediately seizes its potential and in three highly-charged acts she also becomes Steve's sharpest critic. She represents the generation that has been brought up on the PC and is now shaping it into an image of themselves through the Internet. Woz is Jobs' foil throughout the movie, determined to make Steve give the core Apple team its due, long after Jobs has dismissed this crew as B-players. This will no doubt rankle the Techies who probably don't see Jobs as anything more than over-hyped promoter. In fact, Woz accuses him of that in the movie, to which Jobs responds that he is the conductor and Woz is one of the musicians, first row of course. The most interesting character is Joanna, a largely fictional construction who becomes Jobs "work wife" over the course of the film, reminding him of his moral responsibilities. This is probably what miffed Jobs' real wife, who is not even mentioned in this film. But, the filmmakers chose to take a theatrical approach, narrowing the essential characters down to a handful and building Jobs' life around them. You can quibble with the authenticity of the film, but that's not what's at stake here. This is more about what made Steve Jobs tick. What drove him to be the leading innovator in the PC industry and how he reconciled this with those around him? I have to hand it to Boyle and Sorkin to turn this into a richly entertaining film that held this viewer spellbound throughout.

"Steve Jobs" was an interesting movie , but was only reported in the moments before your important presentations in the years 84 ' , 88 ' and 98 ' and there was a little interesting , was excellent, and even perfomance of Michael Fassbender, and Kate Winslet that like me.

When Danny Boyle and Aaron Sorkin combine, you're almost sure to have a winning combination, and this film is a masterful exploration of an uncompromising man. The razor sharp script isn't kind to the subject of the film, and Fassbender's performance is brilliant, with Winslet providing a phenomenal support role. This is an intimate analysis of the man behind the (arguably) most innovative advances in personal computing the world has ever seen, but the storyline doesn't pull its punches, and it plays out in a compelling, fast paced manner that barely stops to breathe. An excellent film, well worth your time. 8.97/10

It is often stated that the line between insanity and genius is measured only by success. When discussion turns to that of one’s genius, we find it difficult not to equate that genius with some level of insanity. This is especially true when that discussion focuses on Steve Jobs, the man behind machines that allows us to hold the world in the palm of our hand. Steve Jobs is not simply a film, but is an experience of perception; of history; and of a household name. When evaluating Steve Jobs the film, one has to stop and admire the genius of writer Aaron Sorkin. The Academy Award winner extends the parameters of his brilliance through a film that not only allows us an understanding of a complex mind, but accurately illustrates the torments, criticisms and neglect that shaped the man entrusted with its ownership. Based on Walter Isaacson’s non-fiction memoir, Sorkin’s script rockets off the tongues of the film’s talented cast and grabs your attention as you dance through every nuanced conflict of Jobs’ life. Daringly mimicking theatre in its three-piece act structure, the film presents the events of three major launches, and three very different pictures of Steve Jobs (Michael Fassbender), in real time. The first, shot in low-resolution 16mm film, set in Cupertino, California, shows a grainy and young Jobs moments before his inaugural Macintosh in 1984, days after the infamous science fiction based Apple commercial. The second, showing the recently axed Jobs, in 1988 at the historical San Francisco Opera House before his infamously disastrous NeXT cube launch in wide-screen 35mm film displays a vengeful and highly orchestrated Jobs. Finally, in 1998, returning to Apple, this time as CEO, utilising high-definition digital film at San Francisco’s Davies Symphony Hall, before his presentation of the iMac. The last act presents to the audience the most human yet morally flawed version of a man no one ever really understood. Each scene, running close to thirty five minutes each, is as enthralling, entertaining and orchestrated as the next. Jobs has always maintained a very muddled and misguided personal life; one that includes a young daughter Lisa with a college sweetheart Christen Brennan (Katherine Waterston), very uninspiring social skills as well as a knack for being referred to as unlovable. Sorkin’s script looks to answer one of the biggest questions plaguing the late great tech genius: can a great man still be a good man? Thanks to an electric script by the great Aaron Sorkin, phenomenal performances on all fronts, masterful direction and a brilliant neo-classical score by Daniel Pemberton, Steve Jobs is easily a crowning cinematic achievement and the best film of 2015, in spite of not being the most audience alluring film released this award season. From the beginning, the film is a pish-posh of gossip and rumours. Not that anyone thought the film would bow down to the atrocious Ashton Kutcher vehicle Jobs in 2013, but the film did suffer a slew of “technical difficulties” going into production. Once in the hands of David Fincher, the film was always setup to be as great, if not greater than The Social Network. With Christian Bale initially cast, the film went through directors, stars and crew like a Daytona racetrack, eventually settling on director Danny Boyle, and stars Michael Fassbender and Daniel Pemberton instead of a roster that may very well have included Fincher, Bale, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. Luckily for audiences, Steve Jobs is not an unwanted and pumped out studio biopic, and focuses less on the look of Jobs and more on the essence of a man struggling with himself more than the struggles of an economically competitive technological world. While the film is presented in a very basic three act structure, there is nothing simple about the film. Driven by dialogue, its characters and three very crucial times in the life of Steve Jobs, the abstract delivery of these highly regarded singular events of the 20th century are presented with ease and class. In a world where recognition is everything, and being pointed out in humiliation and failure could forever change your reputation professionally, Steve Jobs, logically speaking, had no right becoming a pioneer of technology. He was no engineer, designer or programmer, yet, the world knew his name and the ramifications of his brilliance. In one of the many powerful scenes of the film, when confronted by his cohort and early friend, Apple Co-Founder Steve “Woz” Wozniak (Seth Rogen) what he does. In response, Jobs says, “I play the orchestra!” Often times being measured next to Leonardo Da Vinci, Julius Ceasar and God himself, Jobs was often misconceived as a diabolical man with a plan, giving out the passes to whomever came in his way.

Although I almost threw in the towel after half the movie as one can only take so much of Steve Jobs as **** However, the second half more than redeemed the entire effort when it showed him with a touch of humanity and gave a reason for why he was the way he was. Wonderfully directed, superbly acted, and beautifully filmed, it had me lingering on afterwards while watching the credits roll.

The first 5 minutes start with a lot of dialogue. You say, OK it will get better. Sadly, it never does. It never changes. Dialogue after dialogue after dialogue. Good actors get lost in it. By the end, you scratch your head. What was this movie all about ? What did it try to tell us ? How come people as smart as these directors and writers can get it so wrong ? To me, it's a mystery.

This Steve Jobs movie is better than the movie named Jobs. Learn the history of Steve Jobs this way and the averagely good way while you enjoy the feature.

So I've finally got a chance to watch "Steve Jobs" over the weekend and I thought it was pretty good. Michael Fassbender and Kate Winslet both gave a terrific performance, as the chemistry between the two was convincing and enjoyable to watch. The writing and the directing is this movies biggest strength, because the movie is non-stop talking and that's what this movie really is, and I know this isn't going to be for everyone, but for me, I was engaged all the way through and I honestly can't recall being bored while watching the movie. My biggest praise that I have for this movie has to go to Danny Boyle and Aaron Sorkin, because filming and writing a movie like this isn't easy (trust me). The problems I have for the movie are very small and many people wouldn't be bothered by this, but this is just me. The little kid actor in the movie (Who plays Steve Jobs young daughter) she wasn't bad, as I thought she did alright for the most part, but there were a few times when I noticed some slip ups. But that's just a mini problem and the rest of the performances from everyone was great. Overall Steve Jobs is a well made film with clever writing, outstanding acting and directing. It's a shame that this movie was pulled from many theaters because nobody wanted to see it. Jem and the Holograms and Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension, both **** movies that managed to stay in cinemas, but this movie didn't.

There is the making **** movie here, but the story just isn't that interesting. I'm bored of the story of Steve Jobs. Yes, the acting is good, but it doesn't leave much of an impression.

Steve Jobs, arguably the most impactful pioneer in recent history, began to picture his most iconic product – the iPod, later iPhone – when he started to build on himself before his product; it's a story of finding the hardware before the design. It is exactly at the moment when the man, who is obsessed with elegance in his designs and knows he is a big name, confesses to his daughter, saying, “I’m poorly made,” that changed everything about the movie for me. I definitely think it is one of the most stunning quotes from a movie.

I liked this more than I thought I would. Both Cumberbatch and Winslet are perfect and the movie is interesting in how it focusses on Job's career milestones (both good and bad) as the time signatures of his life. But it is by no means perfect. It doesn't really explain anything real about Steve Jobs and many of the supporting characters are pretty thin. I really like most of Sorkin's screenplays. This one is a little thin. But maybe that is part of the point.

I expected more from this movie. it has great actors but its definitely boring. I did not enjoy it. It was a slow movie with slow actors. he was just a stereotype of Steve Jobs.