Steve
Jobs
Michael
Fassbender will undoubtedly be on the short list for a Best Actor Oscar
nomination. BUT while it is well acted across the board (Kate Winslet and Seth
Rogan) and has excellent writing that pops and is very smart,
the overall film never really has a moment of build up to anything meaningfully
for us to have examine Jobs any differently than we already know for better, for worse or for more.
The
movie wants us to view Jobs as someone with Shakespearean nobility – virtue, as
well as a real human anomaly with flaws of isolation, alienation, attacks, who was also shaped with self-inward
tortured conceit.
But
with such a larger than life subject as Jobs to tell a story about and his personal historical
material to work with, the film never reaches any kind of crescendo. In the
end "Steve Jobs" feels more like a mix of an actor studio workshop
being filmed and 4 act play performance (i.e. last year's
"Birdman" ) which I think can be entertaining, but is very hard to
pull off cinematically when 99% of the films 2 hour running time is singularly
focused on just one character.
Yeah
Jobs was a jerk, I get it, but there seemed to be nothing else beyond that - no
signs of a real human life beyond an obsessive focus of always being right
about everything - all the time - with everyone - at any place - at any price.
Still
for Michael Fassbender brilliant fueled performance and excellent supporting
cast work and a story that will hold your attention..........................,
it’s a solid rental.
3
- 1/2 Stars
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