Jobs (2013) Movie Review

JOBS (2013) MOVIE REVIEW

After the death of Steve Jobs, it was inevitable that a film would be made telling how he became such an influential man. Does all of this translate well onto the big screen? Well...

If you haven't already guessed by now, Jobs is the story of Steve Job's and his ascension from college drop-out to one of the most influential innovators of the 20th century. Now for the most part, most of the information needed does make an appearance in the film, though this wasn't the films problem. Jobs problem was that it felt rushed as after the halfway point, the director seemed like he just decided to shoehorn in all the events and call it a movie. For example, Steve finds out that Microsoft has ripped off his idea and used it at their company. As a result, Steve calls Bill Gates and begins rambling on how he is going to sue him for every dollar he owns. At this point, I got excited as I wanted to see where this was going to lead to. Once he hangs up the phone, that is all you hear of that conflict throughout the rest of the movie. Literally the most interesting part to me had begun and ended in the span of one phone call, or just over 1 minute. However, Jobs did manage to tell the complete story and considering the material it had, the film could have done a better job at portraying that story. 

Still of Ashton Kutcher and Josh Gad

As for the actual film, the movie's main problem was by no means because of the acting as I felt it was really solid. This was mainly due to Ashton's great performance as Steve Jobs as he really had all the social aspects that Steve was known for, particularly his posture and personality. On the topic of his personality, I did like that the film did not try and sugar coat anything as Steve is particularly known for being an aggressive person when something does not work out in his favour. However this positive once again revolves back to a negative as the film had a good streak of anger going for it, then the movie decided to shoehorn so much anger and assholeary (that's a word now) into Steve's personality so much that the audience deciding whether they should root and respect this man anymore, this is particularly a negative when considering Steve Jobs has only been deceased for not even two years. Also, the movie appeared as though it was afraid to try something different. It was too afraid to take risks and when compared to other biographical movies, it really does show. For example, The Social Network as a movie was fantastic as for one it made an accurate representation of the events and secondly, took many risks regarding whether the audience would agree, which majority did. Lastly, the film according to reliable sources, did not fully show an accurate representation of the events. To be honest, when you have Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple and a crucial role in this movie, questioning the characters and plot, you know something is not quite right.

Comparison of Steve Jobs and
Ashton Kutcher

Now let's go into more depth regarding the acting. For the most part, I felt it was particularly strong from Ashton which I already mentioned, though many other people who played crucial roles were good in their roles. Dermot Mulroney was really good as Mike and it really showed how he, while did care about Steve as a friend, wanted to company to succeed in his vision. Also, John Gad was good in his incredibly crucial role as Steve Wozniak, though I think that he was not the perfect choice for the role but then again, I can't think of anyone else so what do I know? Anyhow, the acting did manage to show some stand out performances and to be frank, this movie showed that Ashton Kutcher can take on serious roles all while maintaining his great acting ability. 

Still of John Gad and Ashton Kutcher 

Overall, Jobs was in mine and many people's eyes, a disappointment  This was not because that the movie was terrible, it was because that the director had such great source material to work off that he could have created a masterpiece like Gandhi or The Social Network. Although someone else may make another biographical picture on Steve Jobs legacy, it will never make us forget of that one movie about Steve Jobs that was made that didn't show the entire story.

OVERALL: 6.2/10