“Steve Jobs” is not an exhaustive biopic, nor was it intended to be.

Jobs (1955 - 2011), co-founder of Apple Inc., is credited by his biographer, Walter Isaacson with revolutionizing personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing and digital publishing. The Apple II, Macintosh, iMac, iPad, iTunes, iPhone and iPad helped to change communication, work and play.

“Steve Jobs” director Danny Boyle eschews his flamboyant film-making style (“Slumdog Millionaire,” 2008, which received eight Oscars, including director, picture, and the audacious “Trainspotting,” 1996) to follow the screenplay by Aaron Sorkin (“Moneyball,” 2011; “The Social Network,” 2010; TV’s “West Wing,” 1999-2003).

The result is a series of walking and talking scenes between Jobs (the yet again amazing Michael Fassbender) and Apple CEO John Sculley (always reliable Jeff Daniels) and Jobs and Apple marketing executive Joanna Hoffman (a quite good Kate Winslet), interspersed with scenes of confrontation between Jobs and the aforesaid, as well as with Jobs and Steve Wozniak (a convincing Seth Rogen) and Jobs his ex-girlfriend, Chrisann Brennan (Katherine Waterston), with whom he had a daughter, Lisa (Perla Haney-Jardine, Ripley Sobo, Makenzie Moss, at various ages, all excellent).

In supporting roles are Michael Stuhlbarg (Andy Hertzfeld), a Mac computer developer-engineer, and John Ortiz as a magazine journalist.

With Sorkin’s screenplay and Boyle’s adherence to it, the walking and talking scenes become wearisome. Sorkin’s dialogue and the Altmanesque overlap filming makes comprehension challenging.

The screenplay and editing employs multiple flashbacks, sometimes several in one scene, further complicating the parallel story lines: that of Jobs’ success, firing and return at Apple and that of his dysfunctional relationship with his daughter and her mother.

“Steve Jobs” may give you pause to look away from the screen, turn off the cell phone, and stop chasing the mouse.

“Steve Jobs,” MPAA rated R (Restricted. Children Under 17 Require Accompanying Parent or Adult Guardian.) for language; Genre: Biography, Drama’ Run time: 2 hrs., 2 mins.; Distributed by Universal Pictures.

Credit Readers Anonymous: Scenes in “Steve Jobs” were filmed at his childhood home in Los Altos, Calif.

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