Starring: Ashton Kutcher, Dermot Mulroney, and Josh Gad

Directed by: Joshua Michael Stern

Runtime: 128 min

Rated: PG-13

   Joshua Michael Stern’s Jobs is nothing too extraordinary and nothing too awful. It’s a decent film. Ashton Kutcher stars in the lead role as Steve Jobs. Usually when a film is given the name of the person it is based of, the film will exemplify the main character or spit on the main character for a reason. The apple co-founder and later CEO, who designed an off and on gravitating and buoyant empire is portrayed as a hero for how creative and intuitive he was, but is depicted as a teenage failure who dropped out of college and started to drop acid occasionally in the beginning. In one particular scene, Steve goes to a field with two friends and they drop acid. Steve runs into the field and for five minutes, does this pointless dance, while envisioning corny flashbacks that not at all fit in this type of film. That is really my only huge complaint about this film because of how ridiculous and corny it looks. I can imagine that something like that may’ve happened to Steve Jobs, but do you really have to waste five minutes on a stupid little gag that is maybe supposed to make the audience laugh? No because it could’ve been used on a better ending (Described in the next paragraph).

   (Spoilers) The film ends on such bad terms. It ends with Steve Jobs at a ceremony of him commencing the IPod. The film doesn’t even show what transpires to Steve in his last years of pancreatic cancer. The film really only demonstrates the life of apple and what else is to come. It is almost like the ending is an advertisement for Apple. That is what makes me call the film “a decent film”.