On Jobs (The movie about Steve Jobs)

  Movie reviews are fun to blog about, I'm not going to lie. So, I usually am pretty amped to go see a movie or rent a movie to blog about. The new movie Jobs I will admit surprised me a great deal. This movie detailed the life and work of the late technology visionary: Steve Jobs. The movie showed the rise and fall of Apple computers under Jobs' leadership. The movie stars Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs and the rest of the cast are filled with people that you're sitting there saying, "I should know there name, I don't!"

  The movie at times does feel slow moving, but the story is what grabbed me, and I will say it is a real, gritty look at both Jobs' troubles and triumphs with Apple Computers. The movie begins in the late 70s and we see a free spirited Jobs who is both brilliant but also hard to work with and uncompromising in his ideals and vision. The film does a great job of showing the early stages of Steve Jobs' and Steve Wozniak's vision with Apple and how the company grew from their garage into the billion dollar company it is today. The film is intentional showing just how power and success do indeed affect people in both positive and negative ways. It is very interesting to see the evolution that happens to Steve Jobs the more he dives into creating the Mac computer and the many other products that Apple computers has created.

 It was very interesting to see the amount of time, energy, personal triumph, innovation, and also personal heartache that went into creating the computer we know it as today. I really enjoyed the movie, and I think most of us know the end of the story, so I will just go out and say it: the Mac computer gets invented as well as the Ipod :). The movie at its heart doesn't really excite or thrill the viewer, but one thing it does do is inform the viewer and allow you to dive deep in the human psyche and see just what success can do to a human being. I would recommend the movie especially to young kids in high school and college.

 In terms of family friendliness the movie doesn't have a lot of questionable material. There are some incidents of strong language and drug use. I would grade it a 3 out of 5 stars in terms of family friendliness. In terms of overall quality of movie I would give it a 3.5 out of 5 stars in terms of family friendliness.