Start-and-stop action makes 'Tokyo Drift' exhausting
by Bob Townsend

"The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift," the third installment of the thrill-driving franchise, moves to Japan, where revved-up car culture is spot welded to disaffected youth culture in a videophone version of "Rebel Without a Cause." The adrenaline-charged racing sequences have a kind of brutally modern elegance. But when their fingers slip from the nitro fuel-injection buttons and the teens are forced to say a few syllables, big chunks of the movie come to a tire-screeching halt. Read the full review

TO SUM UP
Racing provides Sean Boswell a temporary escape from an unhappy home, but it has also made him unpopular with the law. To avoid jail time, he is sent to live with his estranged father, a career military man stationed in Tokyo. It doesn't take long for Sean to find action in the underground world of drift racing.

FILM FACTS ...
Universal Pictures
'The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift'

Director: Justin Lin
Starring: Lucas Black, Shad 'Bow Wow' Gregory Moss, Nathalie Kelley, Sung Kang, Brian Tee
Run time: 104 minutes
Release date: June 16, 2006
Rating: PG-13 for reckless and illegal behavior involving teens, violence, language and sexual content.
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: C
"The car races that occur every 15 minutes or so are bound to bring lots of young guys out to theaters."

Austin American-Statesman: 2 of 5 stars
"... fans of this franchise should get their money's worth."


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