Went for but lacked that final crescendo

Rating: 7/10 (18 June 2020)

When this popped up on Netflix I was very excited. Written by Aaron Sorkin, directed by Danny Boyle with a cast including Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, Seth Rogan. Seth Rogan?
From the start it felt like this was going to go the same route as The Social Network, the pulsating, slightly urgent techie music underscoring the frantic beginning, and doesn't really stop making this more of a tech opera than drama.
But this felt like more like Moneyball which also whilst a good film felt like it missed the mark. It felt like it wanted to be something that it was not. Where A Few Good Men had its 'You can't handle the truth,' and The Social Network had it's 'you pathetic d-bag,' moment, Steve Jobs felt like it too wanted that big showdown but we didn't get it. Probably because there was no external nemesis here. Jobs himself was both protagonist and nemesis. He was his own worst enemy.