Jobs

Name: Jobs
Genre: Biography, Drama
Released: August 16, 2013
Duration: 128 min
Rating: 44
Cast: Ashton Kutcher, Dermot Mulroney, J.K. Simmons, James Woods, Josh Gad

2013

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Open Road Films | Release Date: August 16, 2013 | PG-13

Starring: Ashton Kutcher, Dermot Mulroney, J.K. Simmons, James Woods, Josh Gad, Lesley Ann Warren, Lukas Haas, Matthew Modine, Ron Eldard

Summary: The story of Steve Jobs' ascension from college dropout to one of the leading creative entrepreneurs of the 20th century.

Director: Joshua Michael Stern

Genre(s): Biography, Drama

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 128 min

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Joe Neumaier

Aug 15, 2013

Entertaining and smart, with a great, career 2.0 performance from Ashton Kutcher. Read full review

McClatchy-Tribune News Service Roger Moore

Aug 13, 2013

It’s superficial, but that plays into the hands of the film’s star, Ashton Kutcher. Read full review

Justin Lowe

Mar 18, 2013

The filmmakers do fall into the trap of overly sentimentalizing a widely beloved public figure who represents an enormous cultural significance. At the same time, however, they keep the movie frequently engaging. Read full review

Kyle Ryan

Aug 14, 2013

For (nearly) every yin of Ashton Kutcher’s Steve Jobs flashing a moment of brilliance, there’s a yang of someone saying he’s changed or is his own worst enemy. The unwritten, but understood, full title of Joshua Michael Stern’s film is "Jobs: Brilliant Asshole." Read full review

Claudia Puig

Aug 15, 2013

One thing it doesn't do is offer a revealing look at the mercurial entrepreneur. The movie that bears his name settles on a blandly superficial treatment of a deeply complex man. Read full review

Marc Savlov

Aug 21, 2013

It fails to rise above the inherent limitations of the traditional Hollywood biopic and it's about as insanely great as a Mac "low cost" LC model – which was, to be fair, pretty cool. Read full review

R. Kurt Osenlund

Aug 12, 2013

Steered by a lead actor and director, Joshua Michael Stern, who are both way out of their respective leagues, Jobs is excruciating, failing to entertain and all but pissing on its subject's grave. Read full review

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astrosogi

Aug 30, 2013

Ashton kutcher did an amazing performance. The movie itself could be better directed. Yet it is still inspiring and amazing. Kutcher by far did the best performance of his career and showed that he has a great potential.

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AGarcia732

Feb 13, 2014

I really don't see what the negative criticism surrounding this movie is all about; it was pretty good. Whether or not the movie is accurate in portraying Steve Jobs, I don't know. Did it gloss over some important things in Steve's life? Maybe. But I do know is that this is a compellingI really don't see what the negative criticism surrounding this movie is all about; it was pretty good. Whether or not the movie is accurate in portraying Steve Jobs, I don't know. Did it gloss over some important things in Steve's life? Maybe. But I do know is that this is a compelling drama film and Ashton Kutcher's performance was good. Liked seeing Steve Job's humble beginnings. I don't think the film is biased or "just another piece of Apple advertising"; on the contrary, it shows the positive and negative aspects of Steve's personality and life. I wish the film had covered more of his life, particularly leading up to his death.

Too bad Steve sometimes seems kinda like a douchebag and an insane perfectionist. (He even refuses to support for or provide for his own daughter!)

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Habibiehakim

Jan 22, 2022

8.5/10
Steve Jobs story is always fascinating to the world and Jobs manage to make it the same as it was, it was inspirational, it was mesmerising, it is for me Jobs more of like a tribute or a celebration of Steve Jobs early work to the failed and rise to success again rather than his8.5/10
Steve Jobs story is always fascinating to the world and Jobs manage to make it the same as it was, it was inspirational, it was mesmerising, it is for me Jobs more of like a tribute or a celebration of Steve Jobs early work to the failed and rise to success again rather than his biopic life from the beginning till he die, and i think Ashton Kutcher and so do the rest of the cast did a great performance overall, not perfect but fair, Jobs weakness is actually just a little little moment that i just feel not quite right including everybody's performance, but again overall Jobs is still a great representation of a very fascinating real life story of a very clever man.… Expand

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MikeyStephens

Mar 10, 2014

An okay film but not what I wanted to see, in any simple way of putting it's disappointing, only hope Steve Jobs gets a better quality film about him and not just the products he made.

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Thegodfatherson

Aug 16, 2013

The decade the film skips when an ousted Jobs created his software company NeXT, which he eventually sold to Apple seems like a lost chapter that could have illuminated it subject. How does such a driven man survive after being driven out? Instead, the film picks up in 1996, when JobsThe decade the film skips when an ousted Jobs created his software company NeXT, which he eventually sold to Apple seems like a lost chapter that could have illuminated it subject. How does such a driven man survive after being driven out? Instead, the film picks up in 1996, when Jobs inexplicably has a new wife and young son; his now college-age daughter snoozing on the living-room couch. He's lured back to Apple and transforms it into the most profitable company in the world. (That's not a spoiler, it's history you can check it on your iPhone.) And that's the problem with "Jobs." While it's interesting to see the history of Apple and how Jobs' singular determination was crucial to its success, the history of a company isn't as compelling as the history of a person, especially one as complex, innovative and influential as Steve Jobs.… Expand

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EpicLadySponge

Jan 29, 2016

Jobs' too messy to have a movie like this. We got such a better Steve Jobs movie coming up a few years later in 2015. Like Hulk, we could be watching this seconds and seconds, minutes and minutes, hours and hours... even better.... years and years!

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obijuankenbi

Oct 12, 2015

Ashton Kutcher is probably the worst thing in this movie, the only good thing he has in this film is the similar look he shares with Steve Jobs..but that's it

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