A Steve Jobs biopic steeped in the mediocrity its subject despised.

Too often the audience is taken out of the scene with thoughts of" Hey, isn't that Ashton Kutcher?" simply because the portrayal comes off too contrived.

Jobs' remarkable life and persistently prickly personality are simply too complicated and his roller-coaster ride to the top of the personal-computing business is simply too crammed with improbable side trips and switchbacks to distill into 128 minutes.

As much enthusiasm and fascination I have with the origin of Apple and Steve Jobs, I couldn't get past the mediocrity of this film.