Directed by:
Justin LinScreenplay:
Chris MorganCinematography:
Stephen F. WindonComposer:
Brian TylerCast:
Lucas Black, Sung Kang, Nathalie Kelley, Brian Tee, Shad Moss, Zachery Ty Bryan, Brandon Brendel, Vin Diesel, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Vincent Laresca (more)VOD (4)
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Sean Boswell is an outsider who attempts to define himself as a hot-headed, underdog street racer. Although racing provides a temporary escape from an unhappy home and the superficial world around him, it has also made Sean unpopular with the local authorities. To avoid jail time, Sean is sent to live with his gruff, estranged father, a career military-man stationed in Tokyo. Now officially a gaijin (outsider), Sean feels even more shut out in a land of foreign customs and codes of honor. But it doesn't take long for him to find some action when a fellow American buddy, Twinkie, introduces him to the underground world of drift racing. Sean's simple drag racing gets replaced by a rubber-burning, automotive art form with an exhilarating balance of speeding and gliding through a heart-stopping course of hairpin turns and switchbacks. On his first time out drifting, Sean unknowingly takes on D.K., the "Drift King," a local champ with ties to the Japanese crime machine Yakuza. Sean's loss comes at a high price tag when he's forced to work off the debt under the thumb of ex-pat, Han. Han soon welcomes Sean into this family of misfits and introduces him to the real principles of drifting. But when Sean falls for D.K.'s girlfriend, Neela, an explosive series of events is set into motion, climaxing with a high stakes face off. (official distributor synopsis)
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Is this supposed to be a joke? I don’t even know what was worse, the story or a Lucas Black’s dumb smile. The screenplay must have been thrown together by some idiot whose idea of fun was to totally destroy the entire series. For God’s sake, even Vin Diesel’s cameo (It’s hell with dubbing) was a letdown. The action scenes aren’t bad, but having to witness a drifting Mustang is the height of a bad taste.
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It's hard to be mad at a movie that's about racing flashy cars driven by the golden youth (unsympathetic dickhead included). The sports cars are shiny, the girls in miniskirts are hot, and everything is so endlessly demented that it's hard not to fall for it. There’s no doubt that someone here likes "Need for Speed." Prodigy - "You'll be Under My Wheels" is in my tracklist. For such superficial kitsch, the director should be either castrated or blessed.
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An underrated ride without major obstacles and boring parts, where not even a predictable story and not-so-amazing actors bother you. The screenplay takes some details from the original, including a surprising cameo by you-know-who, and even though it logically can't reach the same level, I will gladly slightly give this drifting detour a bump up in the rating.
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Both stars go to the two action scenes, the urban chase and the final race, which make it worth watching the extremely unappealing lead and his dull story about nothing. Justin Lin is a good director, but unless he has a script that's worth something and good actors (see Star Trek Beyond), there’s only so much he can do. Vin Diesel, in a ten-second or so role, showed that he doesn't necessarily have to be an Oscar-winning actor to be more interesting than all the Tokyo Drift characters combined without so much as blinking – all he needs is his charisma.
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We have the third installment here, with "Fast and Furious" returning in better quality. Additionally, Paul Walker is missing in this one, which cleverly earned him bonus points. That's why I really like him. Not so much for returning in the fourth installment. If I had to compare the movie "Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift" to another film, it would definitely be "Karate Kid". The story is set in a very similar way. Troubled boy (youth) Sean goes to Japan to make things right. But he gets involved with cars. In the first race, he shows that he simply can't compete with the local fighters and that he will have to settle for the role of an outsider, at least when it comes to racing. But then his mentor comes along, who is not as far apart in age as Mr. Miyagi was to a little Daniel. This mentor has money and cars in which he lets Sean drive. At first, just to destroy them, later with the intention that he will actually learn something. The film clearly leads to a big finale, which is a karate tournament. Actually, no, I got a little carried away. The film leads to a final confrontation, in which Sean must of course win. It's a simple plot that differs from the previous two "Fast and Furious" films. But in its simplicity lies its strength, and the series got a new boost. Although it returns to the beaten path in the next installment, Justin Lin has shown that the series suits him. Mainly because he excels in action, and the races in his interpretation are simply excellent. Definitely a difference compared to the exhausted second installment. If you give it a chance, you'll also tolerate the fourth film to wait for the best fifth. Or should I say the best so far? More: http://www.filmovy-denik.cz/2012/08/warrior-x-ms-1-sibir-5x-rychle-zbesile.html
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