The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)

Overall Score: 6/10

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Summary: It was never about me. It was always about you.

 

First what I liked:

Keichi Tsuchiya cameo, omfg! That was beyond anything I expected honestly.

Vin Diesel cameo was sick, as in sweet. I kept thinking his cameo would be in the middle of the movie, but having it right at the end was just the cherry on top of the hot fudge tokyo sundae.
Good music, interesting camera work, hot asian girls. Omg the women were hot, the girl who always set "set!" in Ready set go, was off the hook.

Gotta love Shonen Knife's cover of "Top of the World", I've always loved them. I wonder if Cibo Matto has music in the film. That cover by the Knife is like 10 years old now.

Brian Tee as DK was probably the best character of the film. I remembered him from "We Were Soldiers" where he was excellent.

Overall I enjoyed the movie, though it had some slow parts that didn't seem properly edited.

 

A few things I was disappointed with:

1/. All female leads weren't even asian

2/. Han befriends Sean way too quickly, which set up the movie as way too fluff, yes I know it was initially to pay back the car, but he seemed to have very loose lips which sort of took away any mystery of the movie, dumbing it down and causing the intensity of the players to become muddied, lacking focus.

3/. Yakuza group was hard but the rest of the film brought their intensity down , made me miss th e Kakihara intensity from Ichi The Killer.

4/. Plot was fairly superficial. with weak characters and contrived. Dukes of Hazzard meets Japan,

5/. Some hot asian women but they were just in it for looks, there was no acting by solid asian actresses.

6/. Black sidekick shouldn't even have been in the movie. He was annoying, stereotypical, and boring.

The movie just seemed badly edited, with a lot of hopping around with a plot that was rather poorly constructed which starts out okay but then slowly falls through the cracks until you don't really care about any of the characters.

I think If I saw this when I was 13 I'd have enjoyed it a lot more, but the dialog was simply too juvenile and contrived for me now.