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The Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift (1 Disc) [2006]


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Amazon.co.uk Review

The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift has all the elements that spelled success for its predecessors: Speed, sex, and minimal dialogue. The plot doesn't need explication; it's a nonsensical series of confrontations and standoffs that serve to get us from one race to another. Tokyo Drift can most accurately be described as a visual poem about screeching tires, crunching fiberglass, and sleek female skin, set to a killer soundtrack of Japanese pop and hip-hop. The actors are only needed for tight close-ups of narrowed eyes or sweaty hands tightly gripping gearshifts, though Sung Kang, Better Luck Tomorrow, stands out as a vaguely philosophical hoodlum with deadpan charisma. The curved bodies of the cars and the luscious flesh of the women are both shot with a fetishistic hunger. The "drift" style of racing--in which the cars are allowed to slide in order to take sharp turns at high speeds--grabs your eyes; there's a strange, spectral beauty to rows of cars sliding sideways down a mountain road at night. Also starring Lucas Black (Friday Night Lights) as our wheel-happy hero; Bow Wow (Roll Bounce) as the scam-artist comic relief; and martial arts legend Sonny Chiba (Kill Bill) as a yakuza big shot. --Bret Fetzer


yawn
Review date: 2008-06-07 Rating: 2 out of 10

another boring entry in the boring street racing series, this is complete rubbish the only good thing is that its not as rubbish as the first 2

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So many watches yet still entertaining.
Review date: 2008-02-16 Rating: 8 out of 10

Take this film with a grain of salt perhaps as a action packed introduction to drifting and people who know about cars will know that some of the drifting in the film was impossible and a lot of the cars had other modifications you don't really know about in the film. Bla, bla bla. Who cares about that right?

The plot is simple as I'm sure you have read and everything is just so too coincidental but it doesn't matter because the films not that serious the cars are beautiful and the girls and boys are all pretty.

You know most of the things that happen would never happen in real life just like an action movie. But it's great. The driftings cool, the music's great because the formula does work. Before you even see the film you know what your getting and it doesn't disappoint to deliver.

The inclusion of Keiichi Tsuchiya (a professional racing driver and amazing drifter) sitting by watching as that 'young' lad learns to drift was great. I actually preferred that cameo to the Vin diesel cameo.


Tokyo Yawn
Review date: 2007-10-04 Rating: 2 out of 10

If you thought parts 1 and 2 of this trilogy were "awesome", then don't bother reading any further - just click "buy".
I'm all for a bit of escapism, and I like fast cars, but there are other things which make a movie work too: intersting plot, realistic dialogue, good acting. This film successfully avoids all. To criticise movies like this is kind of pointless, especially when you play the "that would never happen" pedant card. However, having lived in Tokyo for eight years, allow me to burst some bubbles for you... There ain't no mountain road just on the outskirts of Shibuya. In fact you'll need to drive for hours to get that kind of peace and quiet. By then it will be time to get back to do your homework! And if you can find the crossroads in any of the main city centres, where one car can sit motionless, whilst another spins around it in some kind of lame courtship display, let me know (afraid you wont catch any stunners behind the wheel of a sports car here either - just in the passenger seats doing their make-up, bless 'em). Even in the sticks you'd have fifty people queued up behind you! The main character is at High School? He was good in "Remember the Titans", but that was set at university. Who convinced him he could pull this off?! Why was his mate selling Nikes in the street? This is Japan, not some Third-World backwater. Try any local Outlet Mall, or the internet and you can get whatever you need, usually cheaper than abroad (common misconception: "Western goods are difficult to buy and prohibitively expensive in Japan."). Anyway, some bloke waving a pair of trainers would simply be ignored. Ooh - romantic plot development about being "outsiders"! Couldn't he just say "Lets have a shag?".
They got some stuff right, fair dos. The cars were probably spot on in terms of make, though a traffic light every 15 meters means you will never get out of second before you have to brake again. Nice to see the vending machines utilised - they are still interesting in terms of range of products. Using the five-a-side on the top of the Department Store as a location was good too. And there is no shortage of female eye candy (is that a PC term in the UK these days?). None whatsoever.
I could go on, but I won't bother. The fact is there are far too many fundamental problems with this movie other than inaccurate portrayals of Japan. It just isn't very good. Along with most other final installments of trilogies I suppose.
Oh, I do own a car in Japan, gearheads, before Im accused of lack of insight. Subaru Legacy B4. You'll need to google that as it is only available in the UK as an import...

It's abit batty, But thats what makes it so good (:
Review date: 2007-08-17 Rating: 10 out of 10

The fact of the matter of, this movie is interesting - Which is always what movie makers want, but is it interesting for the right reasons?

I for one love the fact that everyone looks about 28 in the film, and personally, the dodgey accent is what makes you remember him. (the main character OFC)

Obviously this movie shouldn't be taken seriously because lets be honest NOTHING happens like this irl (in real life), isn't it nice to believe that all this goes on in japan, whilst we are all safe with our boy racers ^^.

Boy racers /love this movie because they believe this is what they will someday "do" for a living, Deep down they know they will be stuck emptying bins for a living, bless them.

Good points aren't totally absent, again the accent provides entertainment all the way through, BUT particularly in the "Donkey Kong" gag, which makes me LOL IRL every time. Another rofl bit in the film is when he calls him justin timberlake, WE ALL know justin timberlake's grandad isn't Yakuza, and he doesn't drift, SO where he gets this comparison from i have no idea.

The cars are pretty fit to be fair, but the movie has somewhat not focused on the cars, only getting them ruined by lame drifting. Lets face it, hes a 17 year old who has never heard the term drift, Did he not have a console of any sort? pfft, When he does try and "drift" He not only shows us 10 year olds are better at driving than him (no offence if you are 10..)

The music is pretty immense thanks to the vocals of the terriaki boys, providing us with such lyrics of fast and furryhorse and instead of drift, dip dip dip.. Nice!

HOURS of entertainment, and i mean hours, the movie is pretty long almost 3 hours ^^ A must watch, but all in good humour,

Cheers.

No difference from its predecessors except for its location
Review date: 2007-07-01 Rating: 6 out of 10

Before I start I would like to say that it breaks my heart to see all these gorgeous cars get wasted like that. I never heard of drifting till this movie came across my path and I was intrigued by what it entails. Anyway, I rather enjoyed the first one, the second one was decent but could have been better, and "Tokyo Drift" was.......interesting (?). If one thing's for certain, every installment of "The Fast & The Furious" is known for several things: cardboard acting, bare-bones plot, and tense racing scenes. For the first two movies, Paul Walker was the lead, and in every movie, he had to go undercover as a gangsta street racer taking down a syndicate. Sure, those movies weren't really deep, but with a good sense of humor to back up the implausibility, no one cared. Those movies made buck.

Well, now that Paul Walker has left, along with Tyrese Gibson and Vin, the latest installment switches gears for a new type of ball game. Instead of an undercover cop, we got Brian O'Conner, as Lucas Black, (who almost ruined the movie for me due to his terrible accent and unconvincing age) as the trouble maker going hand to hand against the Yakuza. Justin Lin ("Better Luck Tomorrow") is, of course, leading the franchise to a new direction trying to add some bones to the franchise, but with the original producers of the franchise - Amanda Cohen (sister of director Rob Cohen, or so I think) and Neal H. Moritz - involved, it's pretty much the same deal. But that does NOT mean there's some fun to be had. They did a great job choreographing the cars and street scenes which kept my adrenaline pumping. They've done away with the "hyperspace" graphics when someone presses the nitrous button. There are a few scenes where the "hero", whilst learning to drift, thwacks a wall and the car doesn't show the damage in the next scene, but does at the end, but that is just down to bad editing. You'd think it'd be easy enough these days to CGI a few dents in for effect.

Obviously, as soon as the intro and credits (for the first time) kick in, you get that feeling that you're not seeing an Oscar-winning hit here. For this installment of "F&F," the budgets has gone smaller, but the ingredients are still there: CG-rendered cars racing across twisty highways, sexy girls populating clubs, minimal use of plot, and basically the worst acting you ever seen. Personally I didn't like Bow Wow's character too much. He seemed out of place in Tokyo and I'm not saying that just because he is not Asian. Bow Wow's character, Twinkie, seemed a little too...American for Japan. He had been living there longer than Sean, yet Sean some how managed to learn more Japanese than him. The only man that I feel saves the acting, possibly the whole movie, is Sung Kang. His character, Han, is so slick, cool, that you can even believe an actor this good signed on to this production. Other then "Tokyo Drift" is fairly decent but not as strong as the past two installments.

Product Details/Specifications


Actor(s):
Brian Goodman
Lil Bow Wow
Zachery Ty Bryan
Lucas Black
Sung Kang

Creators:
Lil Bow Wow (Primary Contributor)
Lucas Black (Primary Contributor)

Director(s):

Recording label: Universal Pictures Video
Manufacturer: Universal Pictures Video
EAN: 5050582449853
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 1
Format: PAL,
Release date: 2006-10-30
Audience rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
Region code: 2
Running time: 100 minutes
Theatrical release date: 2006
Language: English (Original Language)

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