The Hateful One

Rating: 7/10 (1 January 2016)

The Hateful One ... the man depicted in "Jobs" the movie is definitely dark enough for a Tarantino's schlock fest but with vastly better dialogue. I would re- title this one "Steve Shrugged".
"You are a good musician, but I play the orchestra," the character boasts at one point. His genius , after all was for envisioning and bringing into life new high-value closed systems -- Apple vs MS-DOS, i-Tunes vs RealAudio -- within which he could play consumers and content providers alike like a fiddle.
In internet terms, Jobs' ideal of an end-to-end closed system is the "Cain" to Tim Berners-Lee's "Abel", the infinitely open and enabling World Wide Web. So it feels absolutely right that Danny Boyle, the director who made Berners-Lee a star of his London Olympics presentation was the one to finish (and pass) the sentence.
Comic Jake Whitehall recently quipped that hoped this would be the last Steve Jobs movie for some time: "they keep bringing out another one, a bit better but far more expensive than the previous one ... but I guess that is the way Steve liked it".
The cast is uniformly excellent, the Sorkin dialogue does not disappoint and the narrative is well handled by Boyle. It is not an easy watch, and it will not be a popular watch, given the absurd scale of the Steve Jobs myth. But it is a compelling, uncompromising and beautifully crafted product ... "just the way Steve would have liked it".