Driven

We saw this movie at it's premiere in Venice. Although a great story and depiction of the final demise of John Delorean, the film only barely touched on Delorean's meteoric rise through GM and barely touched on those accomplishments. Jason Sudeikis steals every scene he is in as Jim Hoffman, but Lee Pace's portrayal of John Delorean is spot-on of the methodical genius. Presented as a "based on true events" biopic, I feel a lot of dramatic licenses were taken in bringing the final story to film.

If nothing else, the colorful clothes, cars, music, and hairstyles of the '70's and '80's are a hoot here. The film can get muddled and disjointed with its flashbacks, but I felt there was enough here to keep me engaged and it does end strongly. Inspired by true events, I remember seeing the FBI tapes involving John DeLorean on the national news as this story did have a national impact.

All in all, not a great movie as I see it, but engaging enough for a watch.

...if it wasn't for the terrible writing. The screenplay had many plot and technical issues. The pacing was terrible that the 108 min run-time felt much longer. Too many long dragged out/unnecessary scenes that should've been edited down/out to fix the plot issues - e.g. why the briefcase (without giving away any spoilers) - an important omission of that detail, no? The editing wasn't any better. The sound/score was off and out of place in some scenes. Directing/camera work and cinematography was decent, but the production overall still felt like a low budget B-grade film from inexperienced filmmakers. On the plus side, casting was great and all actors where convincing, especially Lee Pace and Jason Sudeikis. Overall it was still an enjoyable biopic on John DeLorean. It's a generous 7/10 from me

Fascinating story, I couldn't stop watching it! I loved all the actors... very good acting! I didn't know almost anything about DeLorean, but his car used in "Back To The Future"... beautiful, futuristic car that unfortunately and sadly, didn't work. I recommend this movie, at the end, I decided for a 9/10. I really can't see how it is possible to give it 1/10... there's no chance seriously you can be objective giving such that low score. To me guys, you watched another movie or you're really confused... next time, plug your brain in before writing BS, you're embarrassing yourself.

I saw the movie last night in Venice Film Festival. It was such good that suited to the closing night of the Biennale. Especially Lee Pace proves his acting talent every time apart from his shining charisma. I don't really know about the real background of the story but it was a well-shot one with its balanced rythm, flowing script and developed characters.