An attempt at creating a "new" Jobs movie that left me a little bored and a little confused

Rating: 5/10 (20 January 2020)

Danny Boyle's Steve Jobs is a valiant attempt to create a biopic in a new format, but in doing so it creates some challenges for the viewer.
The easiest way to make an audience automatically enjoy a movie is to create a long series of powerful, heart-wrenching, edge-of-your-seat moments. Some filmmakers grow tired of this method and try to make a new way of creating brilliant films. Danny Boyle through his Steve Jobs biopic attempts to do away with most of the major, iconic moments of Apple and its iconic founder. That means no dramatic engineering breakthroughs or genius moments from Jobs's past, which could be a serious let down for many expecting those.
Instead Boyle attempts to tell Jobs's hidden story through conversation, often with his assistant Joanna (wonderfully portrayed by Kate Winslet). Aspects of Jobs's personality are revealed through his words to coworkers and his daughter, Lisa.
This method of storytelling seems to go against the golden role of cinema: show, don't tell. Although many of the conversations include short vignette flashbacks, there are several moments where the viewer is left unsure of the true events. This is likely the intention of Boyle, letting the personalities of the characters take the lead role rather than the events themselves. Although the acting was excellent, I simply didn't care about events when I didn't have any knowledge of the truth. Additionally, I found several moments hard to follow due to the time-jumping nature of the three separate time periods.
The most interesting topic of the film for me was Jobs's relationship with his daughter and her mother. This was a story I have not heard before, and I felt a film solely focused on Jobs's family in this format would have been more interesting. The business end of the film for me became stale.
Overall, Steve Jobs left me a little disappointed with its focus on uninteresting aspects of Jobs's life and with its format which created viewing difficulties.