Compared to the "Kick-Ass 2" reviews out there, critics went easy on "Jobs," but that still doesn't say much about the film.
Steve Jobs is arguably one of the greatest innovators of all-time, but that doesn't mean his life will translate into an entertaining movie. The New York Times believes Jobs would probably not be a fan of his own biopic:
It would drive Steve Jobs nuts to know that the new movie about his life has all the sex appeal of a PowerPoint presentation. It isn't only that PowerPoint has become synonymous with the dry, dreary, droning of corporate meetings or that it's an application developed by Microsoft, itself a favorite target of Jobs. ("The only problem with Microsoft," he said, "is they just have no taste." Also: "They just make really third-rate products.") Jobs, who died in 2011 at 56 from complications of pancreatic cancer, thought of himself as an artist, one who, in talking about the design of the Macintosh, said, "Great art stretches the taste, it doesn't follow tastes."
The San Francisco Chronicle says it's a good film, at its best:
For most of its running time, "Jobs" is a satisfying account of the career of Steve Jobs, who rose to become one of the great entrepreneurs and technological innovators of our era. In the last half hour, the movie slows down and starts to disappoint, and yet not so much that people with a particular interest in Jobs or the history of computers should avoid seeing it. At its best, it's a good picture, and at its worst, it's almost good.
However, The Guardian agrees with the Times in a less, let's put it as "classy" way:
For a movie that takes so much time bashing us over the head with the obvious notion that Steve Jobs loved innovation above all else, it offers absolutely nothing new either to film-making or his story. If Stern turned this product in at Apple, Jobs would have taken a big steaming dump on it and handed it back to him and no one would be able to tell what was the turd and what was the movie.
Check out the trailer below. Will you see or skip the film? What are your thoughts about Ashton Kutcher as Jobs?
