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Please note this review is just about how the movie made me feel. No plot lines are given away apart from whatever has been released to the press prior to its release.

Before I get started I watched this movie with my eyes wide open. I know the true story of Steve Jobs, the highs, the lows and the controversy. Danny Boyle’s direction of Aaron Sorkin’s screenplay based on the biography by Walter Isaacson was upfront that there was a lot of dramatisation of the facts and timelines and that the movie was not a true representation of the man. So much to say that had it been named after anyone other than the Apple founder it would seem a more believable fantasy. But if you’re looking for a history lesson about who Steve Jobs was don’t take this movie as gospel.

As you may have heard the movie centres around the events preceding some of Steve’s most prominent keynotes. He is shown as a hard task master, a ruthless leader and in denial of his social responsibilities.

Even with this I found the movie compelling. Maybe because it had glimpses of things that I know to be true. In some events you would hope they they were as dramatic and eventful in real life as they appear in the movie.

You may come away from this movie and think ‘Steve Jobs, what a w*****’ and though some of the time this may well be true he was not as much as this portrait would have you believe.

But if you’re looking for a movie that is charged with emotion and liberally covered with tech then this is for you. I thoroughly enjoyed it and would watch it again. Although physically Michael Fassbender looks nothing like his subject he plays it really well. Kate Winslet is also awesome as Joanna Hoffman. The less we say about Seth Rogan’s Woz the better though.

But with all said and done it’s not the best movie you’ll ever see and it’s not the worst. It’s tech, and that’s good. It’s a fantasy in most respects, based on some truths but not necessarily in the order or the way that they happened.

Go into this movie with an open mind. If you do you’ll enjoy. If you don’t you’ll be all like WTF?!

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Paul Wright

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