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Fassbender succeeds and gives a self-assured, Oscar-friendly turn.
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The dialogue stifles, as is often the case with latter-day Sorkin, and the actors are tasked with trying to wrangle enough breathing space to offer up something of their own. While The Social Network opened up a similar world and made it engaging to viewers who would proudly flaunt their lack of Facebook profile, Steve Jobs is aimed at the die-hard iPhone fetishists. While there’s something to be admired about a script that’s unwilling to make things overly easy for the viewer, Sorkin’s terse prose and immediacy assumes enormous prior investment and an unwavering interest in the cult of Apple. The staples (breakneck pace, frantic walk and talks, comfortably smug one-liners) are all there in an almost overwhelming quantity. With a Sorkin script at play, we’re never unsure who the ultimate auteur of the piece is. We also see a personal sub-plot slowly increase in importance with a paternity wrangle involving an ex-girlfriend, played by Katherine Waterston and her five-year-old daughter. Throughout the film, recurring characters progress alongside Jobs, including Kate Winslet’s no-nonsense head of marketing Joanna Hoffman, Seth Rogen’s little-seen computer programmer Steve Wozniak and Jeff Daniels’ stern CEO John Sculley. The first takes place in 1984 as Jobs prepares to unveil the Mac, the second in 1988 as he splits from Apple to launch a rival computer with his company NeXT and finally in 1998 as he returns to the fold to revolutionise the industry with the iMac. The film takes the unusual route of focusing on three key product launches, acting as equally weighted self-contained plays, of sorts. But, to his credit, he’s respectably restrained, easing up on the unnecessary flourishes and allowing his actors, and Sorkin’s talky script, to dominate. His hyper-kinetic style, growing tiresome since 2013’s misjudged thriller Trance, clashes with what would essentially act as a fact-based document of the lauded tech icon. Boyle isn’t an automatic fit for the material.