4 out of 10...should have been a great movie.

The story and character of Jobs is utterly fascinating, but man, did they bungle this.

First, the acting. Except for Jeff Daniels, it seemed all were of the "Master Thespian!" school of overacting. Seth Rogen was terrible as Woz. Just so overacting as the Rain Man, bumbling social retard genius. Winslett almost as bad with the over emoting and Fassbinder just seemed to try to look like Jobs and thought that was all he needed. It felt to me they were reading off of a script as it was being filmed.

Second, the writing was so terrible. Such a connect the dots story and the dialogue so phony sounding. To me they just never got behind Jobs, just a clichéd story of a driven guy who was a jerk but sorta kinda loveable but tortured.

I did not read the book, but why did they end the movie before the IPad and then IPhone? Jobs was basically not very influential till that. Woz and Sculley actually were far more right than Jobs most of the time. Not until Jobs was forced to streamline the company and the IPad which led to the IPhone did Jobs become the worldwide phenom. Woz was always more correct about how the Apple and Mac should have been built.

In spite of the flaws I actually still like the movie on some levels as the story as is is still great. I just wish it had been put in more capable hands and they had fast forwarded a bit to what is truly The Event, the invention of the IPhone.