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The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

He was an artist who sought perfection, but could never find peace. He had the focus of a monk, but none of the empathy. He offered us freedom, but only within a closed garden, to which he held the key.It's an amazing documentary about a person who was a maniac and totally insane about his dedication to his company, his ideas and his products. The story of person who gave ace to Apple, saved it, all the up and down of company. It worth something. This documentary will give you both perspective of Steve Jobs personal life, all the hard times and the thing we never knew about him, the side of coin we never noticed or watched, gadgets and their usage in your life, how you get intimated with those toys, how they effected and changed you life and living era. This documentary is perfect thing that puts a light towards soaring technology domain surrounded by more and more gadgets, technology and products. Don't miss it. You will find more interesting things out there.

At times during the viewing of this film I felt as if the mischievous kid who loved getting one over on the phone company never really changed...only he could do what he wanted on a much larger scale. There is a kernel of truth wrapped in this and it was that Jobs was like a child right up until the end. He lived within his own reality and he was trapped by it. How can you dislike Jobs just because we all had to grow up and abide by the rules while he didn't? Well, in fact you can if you realize that Job's ways and means were at times costly which this film quickly goes to. To his closest friends and associates the cost was regularly painful, as well as life-changing often for the worse even if they prospered financially. Often a bully to employees if you were one who he considered an enemy you might be advised to move out of Palo Alto altogether, that is if you needed employment.This is a good expose' because it dares to show the lofty groundbreaking successes were achieved at high costs including eschewing philanthropy and the occasional disregard for high morals and the law itself. We're suppose to believe if you read another reviewers thoughts that this is the way it is done in the mega-business world and if Apple did it better, well, they just became more successful. If we applaud this as the American business model we're past just a slippery slope because, in time, we all suffer. Suffer as we're mesmerized and hypnotized looking into our Apple screens. Jobs had both visible (Al Gore to name a known face) and invisible shields in the highest places and though he could have possibly served prison time he was never even indicted for anything. On a comical side he may have been the only American who found a way to never buy a car tag...and he wasn't even called out for even this. By the way try this to see if it works for you...I was ticketed a few years back because I forgot to put my yearly tag renewal sticker on the actual tag - and I had it in the glove compartment at the time and showed it to the officer to no avail. I think Jobs took pride in being able to do what others dared to, even the tag thing speaks volumes.If you seen several other Jobs documentaries (I know they're 2 on Amazon Prime Video for example) I'd recommend this one because you probably don't have the balance of the darkest sides of Jobs and Apple. Apple, and Jobs, didn't directly murder anyone, but there were lives lost and destroyed regularly in the Apple eco-system. In the end while the film certainly applauds the success, it moves one to feel anger at the lack of empathy Jobs and Apple lacked, it will prompt disbelief of the disregard for the laws the company (i.e. Jobs) felt they were above, and do so even as one feels sorrow as well since the darkness was cloaked by success - like a wolf disguised as a sheep. Maybe the thing that stings the most is while Apple relishes being called the greatest American business success of the 20th century they don't even pay but a fraction of the taxes they should because of sending their wealth to Ireland, at least on paper (electronically of course). A needed less than stellar view to balance the many accolades it would seem. You get the feeling we've been so mesmerized by all things Apple perhaps we've all been brainwashed. See this film if you watched others because it takes an important different look inside the man who was, indeed, in a darker machine benignly called Apple.

Steve Jobs does not need any introduction. The owner and co-founder of Apple - personal computer and mobile devices have established the trends for the coming years. The guy in a black turtleneck, jeans and sneakers has become not only an entrepreneur but entered the pop culture hall of popular. A wide audience is known as a man of success, the fulfillment of the American dream, confirmation of the thesis about the human capacity for self-determination. But is there a scratch on this perfect facade? What price paid Steve Jobs to became successful. In the film Steve Jobs: Man in the Machine Alex Gibney tries to present a full-sized figure of Steve Jobs, with all his vices and virtues. The movie is not a congratulatory scroll to honor entrepreneurship; it also does not attempt to overthrow his monument. Is rather a quest for answers to the question: why Steve Jobs was worshiped? Unfortunately, the film is designed for people who know the subject superficially; it doesn't bring something new to the table. Most of the information contained in the film appeared in the biography book. If someone read even one book about Jobs, the film will be for him an only reproduction of this information. The film was made without the authorization of the family.Steve Jobs: Man in the Machine consists of archival photos, videos, and interviews with Jobs coworkers, friends, and family. Commentaries on the image put his colleagues including Steve Wozniak, Lisa's mother- as well as people associated with the industry such as technology journalists. Everyone says both positively and question some decisions, behaviors of Jobs. The authors perform video showing life events in chronological order. The story of his family, studies, interests, and eccentric decisions. Walking barefoot on the university campus, driving without license plates Silicon Valley. His unbridled interest in technology and the dash in obtaining work has become a legend in his lifetime. The creators are not trying to deny that Steve Jobs is a man of success. Interestingly, in some materials the film shows his marketing and salesperson skills, quite often overlooked and accountable for Apple popularity. Speaking about the vision comes homes to Steve easily, backed by a force of persuasion it reveals the strength of his success. Not surprisingly, the fact that his original approach to technology made people think and learned how to use and look at Apple's products. He showed alternative possibilities that technology can offer. That film is the story of Zen philosophy as the source of his inspiration. But Steve Jobs had a dark side, which the authors are not afraid to mention. The story of his ups and downs - lay off his own company, reconciliation with unwanted daughter and the exorbitant payment of fees makes the character of Steve Jobs in the film seems to be more complex, more dual. Alex Ginsbey shows Steve's social disabilities. His fetish of technology and success drive pushes off social skills. It wonders. Isn't Steve Jobs a man who is stuck in the machine? Are the devices that he built an attempts to establish a relationship with people? Not one, not two but with million? Or maybe his popularity comes from the people need to socialize. Are we using these technologies trying desperately to connect with other people? Or perhaps we need to contact with the machine rather than a human? If so, then crying, grief, and the sense that we needed the mediation contact? These questions seem to be the starting point for the director biography. Alex Gibney is known documentary director whose films often undertakes essential matters in the contemporary world like sexual abuse of Catholic priest, Scientology, etc. But Steve Jobs can't be a match for those issues, although there is a Gibney wonder in this biography, this documentary isn't revelatory.The film Steve Jobs: Man in the Machine is a proposal for those who have the fat biography of Steve Jobs did not have the courage to reach. But this film is not only audiovisual biography, but the strength of this film also seems to be the context in which compiled this character. To doubt the morality of Jobs actions, whether his character sometimes does not reflect the current state of the human spirit. A spirit that closed in the machine - iMac, iPhone, iPod. But what is clear from this information, it leaves open for further reflection.

Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine (2015)Why do so many care so deeply about someone they've never met that they could be moved to tears at a drop of a candlelight vigil? This becomes the entry point to a documentary that seems to neither really attempt to answer the question nor offer any new insight into Steve Jobs.People probably become strongly connected with things because they bring them so much joy, opening a virtual font into self-expression. And in many ways they/we are perhaps weeping for the countless memories that are washing over us, of the realization of who we are and who we can still be. And perhaps also, a genuine and deep human bond for someone responsible for so much happiness and influence in our lives. There are millions of examples across millions of products and people, originating sometimes in far less than the saints that poster our walls and have witnessed the millionth profundity of our inspiration.During the first hour of this documentary I was engaged and hopeful for where it might be taking me, despite my concerns that we were heading towards the ditch. But by the second hour I started getting whacked hard about the face and head with little more than darkened conspiracies where people in ever-increasing simplicities of slow motion are backed by foreboding music tuned to the binary depth of a political smear.We all deserve far greater depth. We are all so vastly more layered, complex, and informed.Why weren't more people let into the story? It's as if this film were constructed by the comments found on the Internet — with little debate from people who might be able to offer an alternative to their merits — before being pasted together to form the collage its maker perhaps saw in their head before they even secured the financing needed to deal with their own feelings of guilt.This is the same documentary filmmaker who thrilled me with his take on "Scientology." I'm now traumatized enough by this film on Steve Jobs that I'm seriously doubting my love for something that I know far less.But perhaps I'm being too hard on myself. The cult template seems to be fully present here but Steve Jobs is light years from L. Ron Hubbard and Apple is definitely no Church of Scientology no matter how many examples of superficiality and stupidity one can find waiting in line. And corporations are not evil, cynically existing only to please stockholders; they are part of what allows us to live and love, employing millions of good, hardworking people who are always there by choice. And despite its constant presence, there is no mystery here beyond why so many of us reserve such a broad brush for those who hold opinions different from our own.Shown quite beautifully in the opening of this film, Steve Jobs makes himself so sick before his first national TV spot that he pleads for a restroom where he can throw up. Now there's a starting point that could end up offering the wisdom and multiplicity needed to command the hairs to stand on the back of our dead skin.3 out of 10