‘Steve Jobs’ Review: Michael Fassbender Bolsters an Incomplete Portrait of Apple Mogul

Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin throws out the biopic rules, but fails to create new and better ones

I already used up all of my Genius Bar and Zune references when reviewing “Jobs,” the deeply flawed 2013 biopic of Steve Jobs in which Ashton Kutcher huffed and puffed but couldn’t really bring the controversial Apple Computers kingpin to life. Two years later, “Steve Jobs” comes to the screen upgraded with a stronger lead actor, better script and sharper direction, but it too leaves us feeling like we’ve seen an incomplete portrait of a complicated man.

Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin (“The Social Network”) eschews the standard this-happened-then-that-happened structure that “Jobs” and countless other movies use to tell a life story, but as Jobs himself demonstrated, trying something new isn’t necessarily the same as succeeding.

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