"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
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.
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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