I had to take an Air Canada Route flight. Since it is a low cost carrier, they don’t have inflight entertainment and I had to bring my own tablet. Of course, their wifi entertainment didn’t work so I resorted to watching some stuff from my own devices. I didn’t have a selection, so I settled on Jobs – the biography of Steve Jobs from 2013.

Although I have a passing interest in watching his bio, I wasn’t enthusiastic about it. I guess that tainted my perception of the film a bit. Secondly, I felt they tried to summarize his life and pack it into a movie by weaving a bunch of key points into a short narrative. Especially in the beginning, every scene had some important element or aspect of his life, in addition to the main plot that was unfolding. The rhythm just felt off.

As the film progressed in to Apple being successful, I started to wonder how authentic this story was. In researching on IMDB, there were a lot of liberties taken to make it “Hollywood” but I think it was still fairly true to the spirit. I also found out that there was another Jobs bio released 2 years later called Steve Jobs! That feels a little wasteful.

I think Ashton Kutcher did a great job portraying Jobs – I even liked how he practiced a specific walk (which I didn’t know he had until the movie). However, it was still not that interesting movie for me – 2 out of 5 stars.

Posted by Kevin in Blogs