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Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, The
Universal Pictures
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for reckless and illegal behavior involving teens, violence, language and sexual content
Starring
Lucas Black,
Bow Wow,
Nathalie Kelley,
Brian Tee,
Sung Kang,
Leonardo Nam,
Brian Goodman,
and
Sonny Chiba
Set in the sexy and colorful underground world of Japanese drift racing, the newest and fastest customized rides go head-to head on some of the most perilous courses in the world. (Universal)
| GENRE(S): |
Action
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Crime
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Suspense/Thriller
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Alfredo Botello
Chris Morgan
Kario Salem
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Justin Lin
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: September 26, 2006
Theatrical: June 16, 2006
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| RUNNING TIME: |
104 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
Also known as "The Fast and the Furious 3"

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...
83
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
The opening half-hour may prove to be a disreputable classic of pedal-to-the-metal filmmaking.

75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Lin takes an established franchise and makes it surprisingly fresh and intriguing. The movie is not exactly "Shogun" when it comes to the subject of an American in Japan (nor, on the other hand, is it "Lost in Translation"). But it's more observant than we expect, and uses its Japanese locations to make the story about something more than fast cars.

70
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
It's not much of a movie, but a hell of a ride. So what if the movie dumbs down Japanese culture to a bad yakuza movie and features Japanese characters who can barely speak Japanese? The cars are the stars here. Everything else is lost in translation.

70
Variety
Todd McCarthy
Pumping high-performance gas back into the series after a second lap sputter, third entry stays in high gear most of the way with several exhilarating racing sequences, and benefits greatly from the evocative Japanese setting.

70
LA Weekly
Scott Foundas
Manna from gearhead heaven, the third and most guiltily pleasurable Furious emits the crude thrills of a 1950s drag-racing cheapie, only with souped-up Toyotas and Nissans in place of gas-guzzling hot rods, and slinky Asian temptresses substituted for poodle-skirted teenyboppers.

70
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Despite all the silliness the drift races are gripping, and director Justin Lin captures Tokyo's energy and glitter far better than Sofia Coppola.

67
Portland Oregonian
M. E. Russell
As idiot car-crash movies go, "Tokyo Drift" is pretty fun, and certainly a more-than-decent entry in this franchise.

60
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
By all that's unholy, this third edition of the high-emission franchise should have been at least as awful as the second one was. (The first one was good fun.) Yet it's surprisingly entertaining in its deafening fashion, despite the absence of Vin Diesel and Paul Walker, the co-stars of parts one and two.
50
New York Post
Kyle Smith
The movie teaches us that you can flip your car down a mountain 15 times and walk away from it with two Tylenol.

50
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
The F&F series is the 21st century's beach movie, one for some beachless future world where the kids are crowning 25 and seem capable of living off of hair gel and exhaust fumes.

50
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
This third installment of the popular series about fast cars and the posturing boys who love them is best viewed as an energetic cartoon, an unintentionally amusing, head-shaking guilty pleasure that will divert those not in the mood for anything more profound than gleaming metal and preening women.

50
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
The kind of movie in which plot and performances (and members of the fairer sex) are treated as accessories, "Tokyo Drift" is all about the action. And on that count, it won't let you down.

50
Premiere
Ethan Alter
The problems with Tokyo Drift start with its ostensible hero; during the course of this movie, Sean makes so many dumb decisions it's a wonder that anyone wants to be associated with him.

50
Washington Post
Teresa Wiltz
A masterpiece of mediocrity,

50
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
For all its crashes and flash, this is a movie that drifts away as we watch it. Muscle cars and all, it's often a waste of gas.

50
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
The racing sequences are the series' meat and potatoes, but in terms of story, Tokyo Drift barely offers a stalk of asparagus.

50
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
At least Lin's local color make the idiocy fun to watch.

50
The New York Times
Nathan Lee
As in the previous two installments of the Fast and Furious franchise, this largely consists of macho tantrums, vying for the girl, intense vehicular mayhem and high-octane homoeroticism.

50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Jason Anderson
The director also makes a nod to Japan's rich history of genre filmmaking by casting action legend J. J. Sonny Chiba as a cigar-smoking yakuza. Chiba's presence momentarily classes up a passable youths-ploitation flick into a transcendent piece of movie trash.

40
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
The problem with contemporary Hollywood isn't that so many of the movies it's churning out are based on formula; it's that so many directors take perfectly good formulas and wreck them with bad filmmaking.

40
Film Threat
Felix Vasques Jr.
It’s a weak sequel, to a weak series.

40
Austin Chronicle
Brian Clark
Racing junkies would be better off browsing the myriad of online drifting videos where the camera doesn't cut and the people don't speak.

38
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
It's all about eye candy and the quick tease. It's not over fast enough.

38
Philadelphia Inquirer
David Hiltbrand
OK, they squeezed one more lap out of this franchise. It's been a fun ride, but it's time to shut things down. If you get my drift.

38
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Has plenty of fast cars and revving engines. But unless you're a fan of that sort of thing, its stultifying plot and wooden acting is likely to make you drift - off to sleep.

38
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
To call the film noisy and brainless isn't even a criticism - it's unadulterated auto-porn, as shallow and shiny as it wants to be.

33
Entertainment Weekly
Gregory Kirschling
Gets lost in translation.

30
Village Voice
Matt Singer
Like 2 Fast 2 Furious before it, Tokyo Drift is a subculture in search of a compelling story line, and Black's leaden performance makes you pine for the days of Paul Walker.

25
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
The F&F franchise ran out of gas half way into the 2001 original.

25
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Lucas Black, who looks as much like a high school kid as George Bernard Shaw, speaks in a thick Southern accent that hasn't been heard on any leading man since the second act of "Our American Cousin."

25
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
Like its predecessors, Tokyo Drift suffers from a terminal lack of levity.


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