Steve Jobs

I'm not an Apple freak and I don't even care much about their products. I don't know what gadgets, apps, or features they have, but I know a lot about Steve. Who doesn't? There are too many of these movies. But if you want to see one, see this one. Except for the ending, which didn't work for me, it's probably the best Jobs movie I've seen. Danny Boyle is still a class act. (01/29/2016)

Steve Jobs is a luxuriously crafted spectacle for attentive and knowledgeable viewers. A sophisticated choice of moments from the attractive backstage of Jobs’ work, comprehensively covering his personality in both his working and family life. The film is packed with excellent dialogue, so sophisticatedly cut in places that you cannot even take in all the information in one go. And each piece of this information is damn important for the resulting experience. The film’s complexity therefore increases with every repeated viewing, which happens once in a decade in contemporary cinema. Fassbender is inconspicuously brilliant. (12/03/2015)

Excellent conversation film with a frenetic pace. I had to really exert a lot of energy and attention to fully catch everything. Otherwise, I generally love these biographical works from the pen of Aaron Sorkin. Who knows, maybe after Zuckerberg and Jobs, Gates will be next. It's also worth noting the uncovering of Steve Jobs' legacy, which shows that far more than an innovator, he was a design and marketing genius. It's also worth mentioning Jobs’ destructive egomania, where he often had no problem overlooking the key colleagues without whom the whole Apple rocket ship would never have gone as far. On the other hand, this is probably not terribly surprising, because every extremely intelligent person is strange in his or her own way. But it's undeniable that Steve Jobs’ legacy is substantial, and his gradual journey to becoming one of the most successful IT businessmen of the late 20th and early 21st centuries is quite interesting, to say the least. (02/06/2018)

A couple of years ago we had Jobs starring Ashton Kutcher, so Danny Boyle had to bet on other certainties besides the theme, and in my opinion that was mainly the well-chosen cast. Michael Fassbender gives a truly above-average convincing performance in the lead role, while his second Kate Winslet only confirms her strong acting qualities, of which we have been aware for two decades. The first half is rather slower and less intense, but in the second half everything starts to build up and the highlights are the heated dialogues between Fassbender, Winslet and Jeff Daniels. In short, it's more of a conversational drama revealing more facts around the myth of Steve Jobs. (02/01/2016)

An excellent Boyle, and even better Fassbender and the best Aaron Sorkin. A gripping barrage of dialogue from the life of a mega-successful, unscrupulous bastard that, despite its rather violently closed-minded frame of mind, stylishly represents Hollywood's ability to tell stories of great people and their personal destinies. The plot is clear even for a complete layperson, well edited and covering fifteen years of Jobs's life and career with great clarity. However, its cold academic verbosity made me tired at times, and if it weren't for all the excellent actors, it would have been hard to buy into the one-sided emotional ending. That said, still a delectable, smart and believable conversational drama, fulfilling at the same time the function of a great narrative film. (01/30/2016)