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| FAST AND THE FURIOUS, THE: TOKYO DRIFT (2006) - PG-13
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ReviewScore: 39 out of 100
SBD Star Rating:
by Lew Irwin
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 With The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift going on location to Japan, the movie "delivers all the races and crashes you could possibly desire, and a little more," writes Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times. Ebert credits director Justin Lin for delivering the "something more," writing that he "takes an established franchise and makes it surprisingly fresh and intriguing." Even in a generally negative review ("flashy and inane as its predecessors") Jason Anderson in the Toronto Globe & Mail allows that the film features "superior vehicular stunts, most of them real rather than tricked out with CGI." (The "drift" in the title refers to the way Japanese racers sometimes hit the emergency brake and accelerator at the same time, causing their vehicles to skid sideways.) Several critics complain that director Lin devotes far more attention to the car races than he does to the plot. As Claudia Puig remarks in USA Today, "Its stultifying plot and wooden acting is likely to make you drift -- off to sleep." But Chris Hewitt in the St. Paul Pioneer Press comments, "The movie is really about energy, freedom and speed. To complain there's no plot or characters in Tokyo Drift would be like complaining a shark lacks feathers." Tom Maurstad in the Dallas Morning News puts it this way: "The story's a joke; the characters barely have one dimension and the dialogue is as clunky as the cars are slick. Most times that would be all you needed to know, but there's one more important detail about the third installment in the F&F franchise: It's a great piece of entertainment. To call it a great film would be to oversell it, but as a fun, fascinating work of kinetic art, a 100-minute visual spectacle, it's a knockout." |
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