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82
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82
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82
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82
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81
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81
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80
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74
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69
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52
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45
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42
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35
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28
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22
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Adrenaline Drive
Shooting Gallery
MPAA RATING: Not rated
Starring
Masanobu Ando,
Hikari Ishida,
Kirina Mano,
and
Kazue Matsugae
Suzuki (Ando), a meek and indecisive car rental clerk, gets into a life changing car accident with a Japanese gangster. While Suzuki awaits his retribution in the mob's headquarters, comedic fate steps in with an explosion that rips through the building. Nurse Shizuko (Ishida), Suzuki's female counterpart, rescues him from the blast and the two find love running off with the mob's money, while being chased by the only surviving gangster. (Shooting Gallery)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Shinobu Yaguchi
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Shinobu Yaguchi
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: June 26, 2001
Video: June 26, 2001
Theatrical: May 5, 2000
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
111 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
Japan |
| LANGUAGE(S): |
Japanese (with English subtitles) |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
91
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
A clever, charming, laugh-out-loud-funny road comedy that works in almost every scene.

90
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
Delightful, delicious, de-lovely.

83
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Clever, laid-back.

80
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
A pleasure because of zany developments like this, and a healthy dose of amusing characters.

80
Film.com
Sean Means
A kicky little comedy that shows Quentin Tarantino's influence is alive and well in Japan.

80
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
Mr. Yaguchi's film is so brazenly cheerful and charmingly engineered that even the sourballs in the cast are sucked in.

80
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
A rip-roaring romantic comedy that's as funny as it is light on its feet.

80
LA Weekly
Ron Stringer
Not to mention the good-when-moody, best-when-raucous art-band soundtrack!

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
A goofy genre-buster that takes its amateur criminals as seriously as ``Pulp Fiction'' or ``Run Lola Run'' did theirs.

75
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
There's plenty to like about Adrenaline Drive, including the appealing, sympathetic performances of its two young stars and the tongue-in-cheek humor that pervades the film.
75
Portland Oregonian
Kim Morgan
It's not an art film. The movie is as mainstream as it gets -- which is just fine; the picture is both great fun and gently satirical.
75
San Francisco Examiner
G. Allen Johnson
This overall good feeling helps smooth over the sometimes shocking lapses in logic.

75
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Its amiable acting and feisty visual humor make it a must for fans of Japanese film.

75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Desmond Ryan
A high-energy chase, but in this spirited action comedy Yaguchi still finds time to allow the romance between lovers on the run to blossom at its own pace.
70
Film.com
Moira McDonald
A perfectly enjoyable and occasionally charming ride.

70
Newsweek
Michael Rush
Brims with youthful exhuberance, it just needs to cut to the quick a little quicker.

67
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Feels for all the world like a Meg Ryan/Billy Crystal heist comedy transposed to the Far East.

63
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
A witty and quietly charming road comedy.
63
Chicago Tribune
John Petrakis
It has terrific moments, but whenever it starts to cruise along nicely, it hits a comedic pothole that forces it to sputter on down the road.
60
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
As disposable fun, this is every bit as enjoyable and as forgettable as most Hollywood equivalents.

60
TV Guide
Ken Fox
Supremely silly on the surface but full of sophisticated sight gags and deadpan humor.

50
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
A climactic explosion is too obviously a rigged gunpowder charge, and it becomes a metaphor for the film's mistake of diminishing the frantic motion that kept things fizzy and fun.
50
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
Feels like any number of forgettable American teen comedies in which the nerd gets the girl and/or the money.

40
Village Voice
Amy Taubin
Little more than a cartoon, and not a funny one at that.


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