Interesting Presentation and Great Performances

Rating: 8/10 (8 June 2016)

Steve Jobs is the 2015 biography of the life of Steve Jobs, told specifically through each of the three major product launches which he led.
I went into this movie expecting to be bored. I thought there'd be a lot of technical jargon that I wouldn't understand, but it actually handled itself very well. The whole movie takes place in the minutes before each reveal of his new computer system, so there isn't a lot of jargon at all. I actually understood this movie really well. Not only that, but the fact that the movie managed to pull off this presentation is pretty great. It's an interesting idea and it actually worked.
As expected, the performances are all great. Michael Fassbender continues to be great, and everyone else is good too, even the child actors. The characters themselves were developed pretty well, despite the audience only seeing small parts of their life here and there. Each character was consistent throughout basically the whole movie, and thanks to the writing none of them seemed particularly fake. Not only that, but the characters managed to update the audience on what had happened between each launch without blatantly stating or explaining it. It knew the audience wasn't full of idiots (hopefully), and thus didn't treat us as such
My only problem with the movie is a handful of parts from the last act. Some of the sudden confessions and such from the characters were a little forced or out of place, but they didn't take away from the movie too much.
At times it could be a little slow, but again it wasn't a big deal.
Overall Steve Jobs is a really solid movie. It's the Steve Jobs movie that we didn't really need or want again (considering we got one in 2013) but got and enjoyed anyways. Other than a handful of minor flaws, this is definitely one of the better films of the year. In the end I would recommend this movie.