Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs in Jobs.
Everyone knows Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was a visionary, an ambitious entrepreneur and marketing genius. What made Jobs even more interesting was his personality quirks, which have become the stuff of Silicon Valley legend.
Director Joshua Michael Stern touches on all parts of Jobs in this, the first of two
biopics of the man - Aaron Sorkin has one in the works too. This follows Jobs from his mid-70s college days in Portland, Oregon, to the 2001 launch of the iPod.
It's a solid effort, at the very least conveying a feel for the man behind the brand. If, like me, you've slogged through Walter Isaacson's hefty Steve Jobs biography there is little new - it's more a checklist of all Jobs personality tics and milestone moments.
It's a lengthy list ranging from personal eccentricities such as being an occasional fruitarian and refusing to use deodorant or wear shoes, to being a demanding and difficult bully with a cut-throat business sense.
Stern doesn't shy from Jobs' uglier side and we watch him kick his pregnant girlfriend out of their flat and refuse to have anything to do with his daughter - although she turns up briefly later in the film as a teenager staying with Jobs and his new family, as if to tidy up that nasty little episode.
