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Peter Suderman Reviews <em>Jobs</em>

Open Road Films


In today's Washington Times, Senior Editor Peter Suderman takes on the first-out-the-gate Steve Jobs biopic, Jobs, which casts Ashton Kutcher in the title role:

Over and over again, as I watched "Jobs," the new biopic about the founder of Apple, I was reminded of the company's immense influence on technology, the economy and especially my own life. Sadly, this was not because of the movie, but because of the iPhone I kept discreetly checking the time on in order to see how long before the film's ending — which couldn't come soon enough. At best, "Jobs" is a tasteful TV movie of the week, bland but competent, inoffensive but inherently forgettable. At worst, it's a superficial, lackluster gloss on a man whose life deserves far better treatment, and far more scrutiny. The movie, which stars Ashton Kutcher in the title role, seems content to recount the well-known highlights from Steve Jobs' extraordinary life. But it adds nothing in the process, and ultimately ends in a failure of nerve.

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