It's official - movies about Steve Jobs just stink. Jobs (2013) was the worst movie of 2013 and this latest is really not a whole lot better. It's a bit more true to the fine biography by Walter Issacson, but that is probably why the subject appealed to a serious historian and not a mainstream movie maker.
Aaron Sorkin takes a crack at the story but it comes across as an extended TV show like his creation West Wing- too much fast talking, wise cracking, plot leading questions. "What is it about an adopted child like you?" - tries to Cliff Note the whole thing.
And there's no scope to it- we have three acts - well done in their part. It's like A Christmas Carol where he's visited from Ghosts of Apple Past. And Seth Rogen playing Fozzy Bear- Steve Wozniack. Any more bearded slobs actors? The light/dark aspect is just too right to resist beating into the ground for a filmmaker.
Michael Fassbender makes the most of the role and does a nice job. But the whole thing is an paen to Jobs - he can do no wrong, even when he's getting fired, abandoning his family, distorting reality, etc. They tried... but, it's a no.
* * of 5
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