There are plenty of documentaries detailing the events leading to Delorean's arrest. The best of these was made in the 80's entitled Scandal Life in the Fast Lane.
This film entirety ignores the duplicity, ego and sheer delusional mentality of an unpleasant narcissistic con man.
Whenever I watch Delorean in interviews it feels a little like a Jimmy Saville moment in that he wore his disguise inside out, so to see him portrayed firstly with a kind of gravitas he never displayed but also as some heroic figure caring about the lives of the workers in Northern Ireland was laughable.
The fact Delorean was embezzling the company along with consultant Colin Chapman is entirely missing from this "biopic" and the prior activities which included dodgy side deals during his time at General Motors and extorting money from the designer of a revolutionary coolant system for cars showed he was far too lazy to be considered a true innovator or visionary in motor vehicle design. The truth was he preferred conning money out of people rather than creating solid achievements and this was the tragedy for the Two Thousand people employed in the Northern Ireland factory who pinned so much hope and worked tirelessly for a man who really wasn't remotely interested in them or anyone else.
As to the film itself. From a narrative point of you it's reasonably well written. Although Delorean's personality doesn't come close to the man I've viewed in innumerable interviews and news footage. Therefore although the performances are not bad the central character is entirely unconvincing.
I suppose in a desperate attempt not to parody a man who appeared to be a walking parody this was an attempt to make him more believable. Sadly it relies on people who've never actually seen Delorean speaking in real life to make the film watchable. One thing I didn't understand is how Delorean rarely smiles in this film, when in real life he never missed an opportunity to show off his cosmetically blindingly white molars. Whether this down to the director or actor's choice or maybe no suitable tooth bleaching technicians being available is any body's guess.
Overall this was disappointing. Delorean's story of a false economic saviour appealing to people who really wanted to believe in his smarmy patter, in particular the UK government, is well worth telling and this didn't even attempt that.
This film entirety ignores the duplicity, ego and sheer delusional mentality of an unpleasant narcissistic con man.
Whenever I watch Delorean in interviews it feels a little like a Jimmy Saville moment in that he wore his disguise inside out, so to see him portrayed firstly with a kind of gravitas he never displayed but also as some heroic figure caring about the lives of the workers in Northern Ireland was laughable.
The fact Delorean was embezzling the company along with consultant Colin Chapman is entirely missing from this "biopic" and the prior activities which included dodgy side deals during his time at General Motors and extorting money from the designer of a revolutionary coolant system for cars showed he was far too lazy to be considered a true innovator or visionary in motor vehicle design. The truth was he preferred conning money out of people rather than creating solid achievements and this was the tragedy for the Two Thousand people employed in the Northern Ireland factory who pinned so much hope and worked tirelessly for a man who really wasn't remotely interested in them or anyone else.
As to the film itself. From a narrative point of you it's reasonably well written. Although Delorean's personality doesn't come close to the man I've viewed in innumerable interviews and news footage. Therefore although the performances are not bad the central character is entirely unconvincing.
I suppose in a desperate attempt not to parody a man who appeared to be a walking parody this was an attempt to make him more believable. Sadly it relies on people who've never actually seen Delorean speaking in real life to make the film watchable. One thing I didn't understand is how Delorean rarely smiles in this film, when in real life he never missed an opportunity to show off his cosmetically blindingly white molars. Whether this down to the director or actor's choice or maybe no suitable tooth bleaching technicians being available is any body's guess.
Overall this was disappointing. Delorean's story of a false economic saviour appealing to people who really wanted to believe in his smarmy patter, in particular the UK government, is well worth telling and this didn't even attempt that.