Steve Jobs is a brilliant piece of film, even though it have been shot many times and comes short at some places.

Rating: 8/10 (29 November 2015)

Steve Jobs (2015)
Director: Danny Boyle
Cast: Michael Fassbender, Seth Rogen, Kate Winslet, and Jeff Daniels
Produced by: Legendary Pictures
Rated: R
Watching Ashton Kutcher's "Jobs", in 2013 was the most boring and untrue Steve Jobs movie I have ever seen and Danny Boyle, the director of epics such as "28 Days Later", and "Slumdog Millionaire", has taken a detour from his Genre to make this splendid but exaggerated biopic on Steve Jobs. This movie takes us through a breathtaking tour and personal view of Steve Jobs's life for the first time. This movie digs deeper into his personal life more than any other even though a bit overplayed.
With public anticipation running high, Apple Inc. co-founders Steve Jobs (Michael Fassbender) and Steve "Woz" Wozniak get ready to unveil the first Macintosh in 1984. Jobs must also deal with persona issues related to ex-girlfriend Christian Brennan and their young daughter Lisa. Eventually fired, Jobs launches NeXT Inc. and prepares to release a new computer model in 1988. Ten years later, Jobs is back at Apple Inc, and is about to revolutionize the industry one again with the iMac.
Steve Jobs, played by Michael Fasebender is simply superb. He captures the emotions, the feelings, and thinking that Steve Jobs must have had. This movie opens up with a scene of Steve backstage threatening a worker of his to fix an issue with his product, and from that moment on, Michael captures that anger and arrogance that Steve was told he had. At some points, you could tell that he was overplaying Steve and that he did that to capture the deeper and emotional part of the audience. Woz, or Wozniak played by Seth Rogen was well done for a comedian even though he did have some of his own shady moments. The hardest job for comedians taking a serious role is to never really lose character. In some movies, watching the comedians playing serious roles looks like a joke that plays out throughout the movie. Kate Winslet played her role wonderfully. She portrayed this caring, loving, and moving character that attempts to set things right in Steves's life. She was motivating, and she did justice to her character. Helping Steve Jobs in this movie is one of the sub-plots in this movie, and her character tries to move Steve out of his stubborn spot. Finally, we come to Jeff Daniels. Ah, Jeff. After seeing him play the director in the "Martian", I was sure he wouldn't do serious characters anymore. But no, in this movie, Jeff really picked his stuff up, and played the role of "John Skully", the Pepsi Chairman, (from second act, Apple CEO), very flawlessly.
This movie is split perfectly into three acts, and is each given enough screen time. All were given equal importance even though the screenplay was boring at some points. All three of these had neat ending to them which tied back. The 1st act was very slow, while the rest two were strong, smooth, and moving. In most of the Steve Jobs movies, they always have talks and dialogue outside of the stage, while in this one, they hardly move out of he backstage or the stage. This is mainly what slows the fluency of the movie at times. The third act was by far the best in the movie, and explored the more personal life of Steve and his family. Aaron Sorkin could have done a better job of making the first two acts more fluid with more tension. Aaron has still wrote the screenplay 1000 times better than the person who wrote for the "Jobs" movie in 2013, which similarly also clocks in at two hours.
The only other problem I have with this movie is that this is nothing that we haven't seen before. I wanted to walk in and see a movie about the iPhone, iPad, or iPod. Instead I walked in and saw the same Mac and iMac drama which was expressed and shown twice already in movies like "Jobs" and "Pirates Of Silicon Valley". Even though this Steve Jobs movie takes the Mac to a more personal level, it still doesn't have that real and genuine feel anymore. It also isn't accurate at times, but I'm sure that's to draw the emotional side of the audiences.
The music in this movie is very interesting in some ways, and instead of the usual whirring sounds, they neatly placed band and orchestra music in too. Daniel Pemberton has done a amazing job at making this movie much more interesting than it already is. All the backstage music is accompanied by soft and stirring music, and that's what really works in this movie.
Overall, this is a beautifully made Steve Jobs masterpiece, that should definitely be a watch even though the concept has been repeated multiple times. Michael Fassbender has packed the best portrayal for Steve Jobs in years. Even though sluggish at times, I'm sure that could be overlooked with the beautiful set pieces and the performances. The music is simply soul-stirring and captivating. Seth Rogen could've been better even though he was this movie simple masterpiece that is exaggerated at times. To be said shortly, this movie comes just a of few notches short of a masterpiece.