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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.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
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ReelViews by James Berardinelli
It's all about eye candy and the quick tease. It's not over fast enough.
70
The Hollywood Reporter by 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.
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Chicago Tribune by 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.
70
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.
50
The racing sequences are the series' meat and potatoes, but in terms of story, Tokyo Drift barely offers a stalk of asparagus.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Sean Axmaker
At least Lin's local color make the idiocy fun to watch.
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Washington Post by Teresa Wiltz
A masterpiece of mediocrity,
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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.