Who was the real John DeLorean? To some, he was a renegade visionary who revolutionized the automobile industry. To others, he was the ultimate con man.... (Full plot summary below)
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Who was the real John DeLorean? To some, he was a renegade visionary who revolutionized the automobile industry. To others, he was the ultimate con man.
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| Slant MagazineOleg IvanovJohn DeLorean has a biography that could have been reverse engineered from a Hollywood epic about the rise and fall of an auto-industry mogul. |
| IGNRyan McCaffreyFraming John DeLorean deftly tells the bigger-than-life tale of one man’s bold quest to build a timeless sports car. |
| Movie NationRoger MooreBaldwin lets us see glimpses of a movie that might be — on cable or streaming, a mini-series of “The People Vs. O.J. Simpson” style. Baldwin gets the tall, ungainly gait down and the makeup looks like that of a vain, egotistical “winner” who’d had work done to give him that profile. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzFraming John DeLorean is a film that delights in stretching the truth, so maybe its constant ignorance of Hamm’s work is just part of its whole meta-narrative shtick. |
| RogerEbert.comNell MinowIt is true that no movie can tell the full story of a man’s life. But movies like this one can tell us something important about our own. |
| Boston GlobePeter KeoughArgott and Joyce subordinate these more pressing political questions to a mirror-box exploration of the nature of truth and the unfathomable secrets of the soul. As such it is thoughtful, sometimes ingenious, but you can’t help thinking that they missed the real story. |
| The New York TimesGlenn KennyFraming John DeLorean doesn’t fully answer its own central question, and leaves several others hanging as well. As frustrating as this can be in hindsight, the movie, while it’s playing, is unfailingly engrossing. |
| VarietyOwen GleibermanAn adventurous hybrid. ... It shouldn’t work, but it does. |
| Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinDirectors Sheena M. Joyce and Don Argott could have easily ditched the stagy narrative bits (and behind-the scenes chats with the actors) and relied entirely on the vast amount of fascinating, well-assembled archival footage that, along with recent interviews with the late DeLorean’s children, co-workers, lawyer and other observers, nimbly recount the renegade’s complex, tabloid-ready adult life. |
| The Film StageJohn FinkFraming John DeLorean suffers from functioning as two potentially entertaining films in one, fighting it out on screen. |
