Ashton Kutcher has had an interesting and successful career bouncing from That 70s Show to a string of romantic comedies and TV production. He has delivered a few dramatic roles but has yet to find that one that really stands out, but with his latest Jobs could he have finally found that respected role that will step up his game as a respected dramatic actor?
Jobs follow the story of Apple founder Steve Jobs ascension from college dropout into one of the most revered creative entrepreneurs of the 20th century. Movies like this that tell the real life stories of people that had such an impact on the world are awesome when done right. These aren't action driven stories so you have to prepare yourself for a sometime slow paced film which is the case with this one. It moves along fine, but does slow down a bit a times, but always manages to re-find its footing. Ashton Kutcher gives easily the best performance of his career impressively becoming Jobs all the way down to his unique walk. It is obvious that he fell completely into the role and it paid off. The rest of the cast that featured Josh Gad, Dermot Mulroney, Lukas Haas, Matthew Modine, J.K. Simmons, Lesley Ann Warren, and James Woods were great as well with Josh Gad standing out and really embodying Steve Wozniak all the way. The story is obviously iconic, but there are some elements that could have been flushed out a bit better. Clearly they were trying to stick to his rise, fall, and return to Apple, but by doing this there are skips through the timeline that leave out some crucial elements to the story. Not all of them were originally necessary, but they spend some time focusing on them only to skip past some of the more important parts leaving this part of the story a bit empty. As a whole the film works effectively telling this story and getting that insight into the journey of Steve Jobs and the struggles we only heard about in the papers, but there was a missed opportunity to tell and even better story had they not skipped through the timeline and over some crucial times in the history of both Steve Jobs and Apple itself.
While it's not clear if every aspect of this film is completely accurate as they usually take some liberties to condense the story they surely did not pull any punches in showing both the good and bad of Jobs which made for a more compelling film. If you are not a fan or have doubts about Kutcher this is sure to be the film that will get him more recognition and change some minds about his acting abilities as the entire film is worth just seeing him embody this iconic man in such great performance.
Jobs follow the story of Apple founder Steve Jobs ascension from college dropout into one of the most revered creative entrepreneurs of the 20th century. Movies like this that tell the real life stories of people that had such an impact on the world are awesome when done right. These aren't action driven stories so you have to prepare yourself for a sometime slow paced film which is the case with this one. It moves along fine, but does slow down a bit a times, but always manages to re-find its footing. Ashton Kutcher gives easily the best performance of his career impressively becoming Jobs all the way down to his unique walk. It is obvious that he fell completely into the role and it paid off. The rest of the cast that featured Josh Gad, Dermot Mulroney, Lukas Haas, Matthew Modine, J.K. Simmons, Lesley Ann Warren, and James Woods were great as well with Josh Gad standing out and really embodying Steve Wozniak all the way. The story is obviously iconic, but there are some elements that could have been flushed out a bit better. Clearly they were trying to stick to his rise, fall, and return to Apple, but by doing this there are skips through the timeline that leave out some crucial elements to the story. Not all of them were originally necessary, but they spend some time focusing on them only to skip past some of the more important parts leaving this part of the story a bit empty. As a whole the film works effectively telling this story and getting that insight into the journey of Steve Jobs and the struggles we only heard about in the papers, but there was a missed opportunity to tell and even better story had they not skipped through the timeline and over some crucial times in the history of both Steve Jobs and Apple itself.
While it's not clear if every aspect of this film is completely accurate as they usually take some liberties to condense the story they surely did not pull any punches in showing both the good and bad of Jobs which made for a more compelling film. If you are not a fan or have doubts about Kutcher this is sure to be the film that will get him more recognition and change some minds about his acting abilities as the entire film is worth just seeing him embody this iconic man in such great performance.