Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine (2015)

The Worst Film Ever

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Wow this really sucks! It doesn't even need a review, it just sucks. Pretentious, driven (don't know what Jobs did to the director to produce such an obscenity) and technically pathetic. The music is bad, the editing is worse, the script is absolutely awful and it doesn't connect you to the story; and last of all points, but maybe the most important, it lacks of intensity which the man certainly had, it lacks of passion which the man certainly had and it focuses on the first part of his life when for Jobs' own confession he made mistakes. If you want to know anything about the man behind the most innovative and successful company on the planet (data-analysis say that) read the book of Walter Isaacson. That is complete, not driven (neither in a good or a bad way), truthful and fluently written.

This documentary deserves 9 stars because it is the best doc/feature we've seen thus far in it's delivery of the factual events of Steve Job's life and the scope in which it does so. I chose NOT to give this film a 10 out of 10 because,there are some events where the narrator's script seems to deliver biased moral opinion on the events and choice made in Steve Job's life even if it is often both positive AND negative. Because there seems to be a bias at times, it detracts from the documentary's potential as a film for the preservation and posterity of Steve Job's historical life and actions but, if you're capable of thinking for yourself and listening only to the wonderful facts that it presents and are capable of forming your own opinions and ignoring the occasional political spin. This is the best doc/feature we've had in the last 4 years since his passing in terms of delivering a full account of all the man's most notable works and his own personal life.Excellent work.

Alex Gibney presents another unauthorized documentary about the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs.There are already many that have been made in the past especially after Jobs passed away.But this particular documentary presents an intriguing question to the viewer with regards to why billions of people around the world have felt outpouring pain and sadness considering that he happens to be not a beloved leader of a country nor an iconic entertainer but rather someone who owns a company that have sold computers.It tries to provide an answer to that question by taking an examination of who Steve Jobs is as a person and Apple Computer as a company.It starts by providing the history of Apple Computer during its early days when it started in the garage until it the birth of Macintosh.It presents archival footage and interviews of Jobs.Since Apple does not want to participate in it,the interviews conducted were that of former Apple executives and employees like Steve Wozniak and Daniel Kottke;former girlfriend Chrisann Brennan and her daughter,Lisa;and journalists who conducted interviews with him.Things become interesting as it shifts to a judgment of the late Apple CEO as a person as it presents him someone who possesses an arrogant,narcissistic and horrible character.It also explores his actions as Apple CEO.It presents him as a tyrannical,demanding,humiliating and a hard driving leader who is willing to throw someone under the bus any time.He also was willing to exploit cheap foreign labor in China that had workers committing suicide due to a demanding work schedule.Aside from that,he also did actions to avoid taxes like backtracking and having tax shelters abroad.The negative side of Jobs continues to build on in it which present employees of Apple and the fans of Apple product users will surely dislike about the documentary especially with Gibney pushing for lots of information.At the conclusion,we get to see that it tries to answer the question that indeed Steve Jobs is a person that is full of contradictions.He maybe a horrible person but he is a dynamic business leader who made his employees at Apple feel that they are a group of people that are changing the world and he is a charismatic leader that have made Apple users as people who are using modern breakthrough products that they have learned to love.

Film Review: Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine. Academy Award Winning Director Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side - 2008) loves his "behind the scenes" look at people and events (Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief - 2015). So, it 's no surprise he's ready and able to take on Steve Jobs. This look at Apple/Jobs moving quickly pass the start up years of Apple, and focuses primarily on Jobs' work ethics (and/or lack there of). Through select interviews and replaying of testimony, the viewer is provided a unique look into Jobs' personal, public and work life persona - all showing a bundle contradictions. However, be this information new or old to the viewer, there is no question the Man behind the Machine (Apple) produced one of today's most innovative products.