The Fast and Furious ..Tokyo Drift

BoReD_iN_BrIsBaNe · June 9, 2006, 10:26am

From the producer of the worldwide blockbuster hits The Fast and the Furious and its sequel, 2 Fast 2 Furious, comes the latest installment of the adrenaline-inducing series built on speed-The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. 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.

Personally i dont think its gonna be much of a blockbuster..

watya rekon

Sinner · June 9, 2006, 3:20pm

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hmmm ... im huge fan of Fasts n furiouses ... lets see this one .. when its going 2 b released

Mr_Fraudia · June 9, 2006, 3:29pm

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whats next fast and the furious - karachi, riced up rikshaws battling for dominance on the streets by khara darr?

BoReD_iN_BrIsBaNe · June 9, 2006, 3:42pm

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now thats a blockbuster

_Lay-D_Honey · June 9, 2006, 4:27pm

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oooooooh I would love 2 see that..!!!

Faisal · June 19, 2006, 10:30pm

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Saw it yesterday. From an action stand-point, its pretty good, with several race sequences, including a pretty hairy one in Tokyo’s crowded streets, and a couple of really interesting drifting sequences, one in a covered parking lot and the other on mountain roads. Some good shots of real Tokyo lifestyle, including small and crowded homes, video game parlors and a bath house. Good cinematography.

Acting was borderline mediocre and story/plot was written by a 5-year old. One Japanese character (Hans) was pretty cool. The other was a stuck up moron (DK). The funniest part of the movie was when a character asks our hero, supposedly to intimidate him, “do you know what DK stands for?” (DK are the initials of our villian). And the hero responds innocently enough “donkey kong?” (in reality the initials stood for ‘Drifting Kid’, in apparent reference to his amazing drifting skills), but you have the excuse our hero, since he had no clue what drifting was, at that time.

All in all, if you set your expectations, solely to enjoy the racing scenes, then you’d be happy. Anything more intelligent then that, and you should move it to your DVD list, with a good surround sound system at your home.

By the way, this is the review from SF Chronicle, which is biting, but quite accurate.

**This movie is about a racing fool, literally, who is supposed to be a great driver, but can’t get into a car without totaling it. This becomes an unintentionally comic running motif. In the first sequence, Sean is a high school senior who gets into a race with some obnoxious loudmouth. The expectation is that our young hero will show him some real driving. Instead, he demolishes a housing development on the way to rolling over and demolishing his own car. *

*To avoid arrest, he goes to Tokyo to stay with his father, and within 24 hours has discovered Tokyo’s racing scene, which is based – I’m not kidding – in a multi-level parking garage. This is where “drifting” comes into play. If you’re going to be switching levels in a parking lot, it’s important to be able to turn quickly. But alas, Sean has not mastered parking lot driving, and so, in his first race, he smashes up somebody else’s race car. *

*The movie attempts to replicate the atmosphere that Cohen established at the start of the series, that of an adolescent boy’s fantasy of big cars and barely-clad, beautiful women slavering over and draping themselves on various guys, for no reason but that the guys happen to be standing there. It’s a nighttime world of no parents and the promise of thrills and sex. It’s never explained why the most beautiful women in Japan should want to hang out in a parking lot. That’s just one of the mysteries of the East. *

*Sean falls in with Han (Sung Kang), a laidback American-born hustler, who presides over some lucrative illegal activities, including loan sharking. Han, a nice guy and a smooth operator, says Sean has “character.” Fortunately, he says it out loud or else the audience would never know. Han has a cushy situation – scores of employees, lots of race cars and a daily party, in which a lot of half-nude fashion models show up. Sometimes Han goes to the party, and sometimes he doesn’t – he’s that cool. When he brings Sean, the girls swarm all over the young fellow, for the obvious reason that Sean has two legs and occupies space. *

*But Sean doesn’t want anything to do with those easy conquests. He’s much more interested in a high school girl (Nathalie Kelley) he met for 15 minutes one night, who happens to be the girlfriend of a Yakuza member. You see, as I strongly implied earlier, Sean is lethally stupid. “All that matters is what you really want – and going after it,” he says, with great conviction. The problem is, even an hour into the movie, Sean has no plan and no direction, just a blind desire to smash up automobiles and steal a mobster’s girlfriend. There’s no plan, no vision for the future, no nothing, just a goofy compulsion. *

*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.” His is not the easy twang of a Matthew McConaughey, nor the musical patter of a Jimmy Carter, but something out of a Great Depression newsreel. That could be interesting, if he were interesting, and maybe he could be interesting if the role weren’t embarrassing. But nothing he does in “Tokyo Drift” indicates an ability to do anything other than stand in the way of a camera and show up on a developed piece of film. *
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Faisal · June 19, 2006, 10:34pm

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By the way, for the sake of comparison, the original Fast and the Furious, with Vin Diesel will seem like a masterpiece. Especially its first scene with four Honda Civics going after a big rig is clearly memorable, compared to this one, with hardly anything memorable.

And for a second by the way, Vin Diesel makes a cameo appearance here as well. This is not a spoiler, since his role is hardly anything of significance or relation to the (non-existent) story line.

Mal1k · June 19, 2006, 10:37pm

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Well check Images for a GTR that took part in this movie…

_Lay-D_Honey · June 20, 2006, 1:15pm

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Vin Diesel..

Al-Farooq · June 20, 2006, 2:21pm

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Original Fast & Furious with Vin diesel and Paul Walker was the best. It had a good story line, perfect characters and nice action sequences. Producer killed the theme when he didn't sign Vin Diesel in 2 Fast 2 Furious; I heard that he did it to keep the budget down. 2 Fast 2 Furious was not that bad, Tyrese did fairly OK job filling in for Diesel.

I watched the 3rd one on last weekend, and I'm pretty much disappointed. I totally agree with Faisal Bhai's comments, if you just wanna watch some action sequences, go and watch the movie, otherwise wait for the DVD, as the storyline is crappy.

Vin Diesel making a guest appearance, Faisal Bhai, do you think they flew in Vin Diesel all the way to Tokyo for just that shot, or they used some kind of animation?

I would give this movie 5/10

Gohan · June 23, 2006, 3:37am

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man, this movie sucked. Waste of time it is, really. I shoulda watched Nacho Libre instead.

_MuNiYa · June 23, 2006, 11:57am

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1 & 3 were good..
2 tho baas gaand he kiya tha..
but if your one for gripping stories this isnt the movie for you

the lead female :yuck:

Nooman · June 25, 2006, 6:55am

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I heard good reviews about it. but havent seen it yet

I_m_Kool · June 25, 2006, 10:59pm

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I found it to be entertaining for what its worth. I went with the lowest expectation anyone could ever have for a movie and was pleasently surprised. In all honesty, I was expecting a near B-Grade film but excellent production value made it better than what I originally thought it would be. Here are the negatives followed by the positives.

First off, why does the dude have an f'd up accent? It sounded like an accent that Kevin Federline may have.... trailer trash hick meets NY street corner hustler. If it wasn't for the fact that at one point in the movie his IM nick is shown as "Bama_Boy", I would have never guessed that he is supposed to be some southern dude. Secondly, there is very little background information given about each character, which makes it hard to connect with them. This may have to do with the fact that they will probably create a sequel of this storyline (Vin Diesel's cameo kinda fuels that thought as well) but still. Its as if they knew that no one would care about the characters and that it should be street racing, drifting to be exact, that is the main focus. Also, as Faisal pointed out, acting was horrible (but thankfully its wasn't horrible enough that it started to annoy you), the fact which became absolutely apparent at some key points in the movie. That supposed mixed chick had the worst acting of all. I know that the director's intention was to probably make it look like she cared about the hero and thats why she wanted him to go away and stuff but because of her lack of expressions on the face, it made it seem as if she was doing all of that just to save her own ass. Han was most defiintely the only good actor in the entire movie.

The positives were nice since unlike the negatives, I did not expect them. First off, they depicted the lives of teenagers in Tokyo in good detail and from all that I have heard, quite accuratly as well. They also did a good job of giving the viewers a feel of downtown Tokyo and how unique and everything it really is. Although I have to say that they sometimes went overboard, like when they showed the entire highschool staring at the hero, as if everyone in the school is part of the illegal drifting scene. I'll also ignore the fact that they kept on shoving brand names, car related or otherwise, up our throats constatnly throughout the movie. But anyways, coming back to the positives, there were quite a few drift racing sequences as well. The one in downtown Tokyo, in between all the traffic, was really nice. Also, although not a car racing sequence, the scene where Han is shown talking about how this is his Mexico and kids playing soccer in the background, was quite mesmirizing on the big screen. There were a lot of positives in the movie but the fact that all their budget was spent on the technical side, leaving the acting part short on talent, really brought the overall value of the movie down. A couple of remotely decent actors would have done wonders for it. Also, if they were to drag the movie atleast half an hour longer, that would have helped a lot in character development and such. It really looked as if the director wanted to fit in a lot of stuff on a really short film reel.

Overall, just for sheer entertainment value, and the fact that I had zero expectations for it when i went in, I would give it 7 out of 10. Just don't expect it to win any Academy awards anytime soon.