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Jobs (2013), PG-13, 2 stars


Josh Gad and Ashton Kutcher as Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs
It takes guts to drop out of college, right? Many students, like any other ordinary educated bystander, would strive and pursue their education in college. But one particular person dropped out: Steve Jobs. 

The film opens in 2001 where Jobs (Ashton Kutcher) introduces the wonderful invention, IPod, at a Town Hall Meeting. But, we flashback to 1974 in Reed College where he drops out and meets the Dean (James Woods) and approves him of auditing classes, which he invests his time to learn about calligraphy. He meets a friend named Daniel (Lukas Haas) and goes to India because they were both influenced by a book about spirituality.

It's 1976 and he is living with his adoptive parents and working for Atari. He is under dubious pressure until he sees his childhood friend, Steve Wozniak (Josh Gad). Woz and Jobs work and create the Apple I and also called their company "Apple". 

They are looking for a venture capital to help them with financial aid. An investor, Mike Markulla (Dermot Mulroney), comes in the picture and makes them an offer to propel the company forward.

In 1977, they bring Apple II at a computer fair and it brings a successful audience reaction and all of a sudden, the company is successfully initiated and ready to roll. All things begin wonderfully until his high school girlfriend (Ahna O'Reilly) tells Jobs that she's pregnant. Jobs goes into erratic tension and stress and not believes that his newborn daughter is practically his in the formidable matter.

As tension gets worse for Jobs, he creates the MacIntosh, but he is let go by the Apple company which propels him to create a new life and have a happy marriage with his wife, Laurene (Abby Brammel), and two kids. He invents NeXT, another computer company, which brings in new and fresh discoveries for the computer and attracts the Apple company into buying it and come back.



The overall result is a disappointment because they filmed the movie with no approval from Apple which is fishy because there could be some fictional elements that do not support the personality of Steve Jobs as a person, but mostly it supports of what the company is about. I don't think they filmed the way Steve Jobs' vision of the company quite well and spends way too much time about the company. I wanted to know Jobs as a person and how Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs' friendship started. 

Ashton Kutcher's performance, overall, was good and mannered, but, I did not think the bursts of screaming was all that necessary. Josh Gad's performance is exceptional, though, capturing the spirit and genius of what started the invention of the computer. The biopic, however, is a wasted opportunity because if they get rid of the formulaic elements and focused on the person, the writers would have a good movie on their hands.

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