Film Review: ‘Driven’

Biopic about John DeLorean has enough under the hood to intrigue

Lee Pace as John DeLorean in “Driven.” Universal Pictures

R | 1h 48min | Biography, Drama, Thriller | 16 August 2019 (USA)

Once the ingenious darling of the automotive industry, John DeLorean launched his own commercial auto company, the DeLorean Motor Company (DMC), back in the 1970s. But DMC’s first commercial vehicle, the DeLorean, didn’t reach the market until the ’80s, and by then, the sagging car market meant the demise of his would-be crowning achievement, the gull-winged DeLorean sports car (as seen in “Back to the Future”).