My review was written in February 1990 after watching the film on Academy video cassette.
"Driving Force" is a contrived action pic that fails to whip up the populist sentiment of '70s truck driving man features.
Direct-to-video pic was shot in the Philippines by Aussie filmmakers, with several supporting players dubbed with an American accent. Its foreign origins are betrayed when an all-American girl calls the bad guys "bikies", Australian slang instead of the U. S. term biker for motorcycle types.
Sam J. Jones gets a job driving a tow truck to earn a living and keep custody of his daughter; his wife died and the grandparents want hr4. Unscrupulous fellow tow truckers led by evil Don Swayze are causing accidents and strong-arming innocent folks to drum up business. When Jones interferes, a boring vendetta begins.
Film founders due to a series of idiotic, almost impossible coincidences in the final reels, all designed to pile tsouris on Jones until he gets mad and gets even.
Jones is okay in this standard issue role, with Catherine Bach adding some glamor as his girlfriend (she's also convincing in the action scenes). Swayze, Patrick's near lookalike brother, goes through the motions as the cardboard villain.
