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The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)
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Reviews Counted:104
Fresh:35
Rotten:69
Average Rating:4.6/10
Consensus: Eye-popping driving sequences coupled with a limp story and flat performances make this Drift an adequate follow-up to the previous Fast and Furious installments. Strictly for the racing crowd and fans of the first two films.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for reckless and illegal behavior involving teens, violence, language and sexual content
Runtime: 1 hr 46 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Theatrical Release:Jun 16, 2006 Wide
Box Office: $62,494,975
Synopsis: 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... 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. Sean Boswell (Black) 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 (Bow Wow), 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 (Kang). 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 (newcomer Kelley), an explosive series of events is set into motion, climaxing with an ultimate high stakes face off. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift is directed by Justin Lin (Better Luck Tomorrow, Annapolis) and written by Chris Morgan (Cellular). The film is produced by Neal H. Moritz (xXx, S.W.A.T.) and executive produced by Clayton Townsend (The Skeleton Key, The 40 Year-Old Virgin). -- © Universal Pictures [More]
Starring: Bow Wow, Lucas Black, Sung Kang, Zachery Ty Bryan
Starring: Bow Wow, Lucas Black, Sung Kang, Zachery Ty Bryan, Brian Goodman, Brian Tee, Nathalie Kelley, Kario Salem
Director: Justin Lin
Director: Justin Lin
Producer: Neal H. Moritz
Composer: Brian Tyler
Studio: Universal Pictures
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Release:
Jul 28, 2009
Blu-ray Disc Features:
- 2-Disc Set
- Region [unknown]
Audio:
- DTS 5.1 Surround - English, Spanish
- DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 - English
- Subtitles - English, SDH, French, Spanish
Additional Release Material:
- Deleted Scenes
- Audio Commentary: Director Justin Lin
Music Video:
- 1. Don Omar "Conteo" Music Video
- 2. Far East Movement "Round Round" Music Video
- 3. Fast 3 Soundtrack Spot
Featurette:
- 1. Making of the Fast Franchise
- 2. Drift: A Sideway Craze
- 3. Custom Made Drifter
- 4. Drifting School
- 5. Cast Cam
- 6. The Big Breakdown: Han's Last Ride
- 7. Tricked Out to Drift
- 8. Welcome to Drifting
- 9. The Real Drift King
- 10. The Japanese Way
Interactive Features:
- BD Live: Generic Download Center
- BD Live: My Scenes Sharing
- D-Box
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Reviews for The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
The cars are the real stars of the movie. They are jazzy and fast and have more personality than most of the actors.
The adrenaline-charged racing sequences have a kind of brutally modern elegance. But when their fingers slip from the nitro fuel-injection buttons and the teens are forced to say a few syllables, big chunks of the movie come to a tire-screeching halt.
Each film throws two or three okay action scenes into an otherwise wobbly blend of macho posturing, philosophically windy chitchat and moldy archetypes.
Racing junkies would be better off browsing the myriad online drifting videos where the camera doesn’t cut and the people don’t speak. Film buffs would be better off watching Two-Lane Blacktop, but they probably already knew that.
Having lived through many a Minnesota winter, call me unimpressed to see a bunch of toy cars swerving wildly around city streets.
The movie lurches, wheezes and misfires throughout, with a clunky pace more suited to those who live life one Quarter Pounder at a time.
It's a modern day Romeo and Juliet with a whole lot o 'Pimp my Ride' thrown in.
Padded with relatively unknown actors, "Tokyo Drift" is more of an actors' showcase than fully fleshed-out movie.
A couple bravura set pieces and a surprise cameo may make fans forget that for much of the time, this "Fast and the Furious" is closer to "Sluggish and the Dispassionate."
Perhaps the most glaring drawback to Tokyo Drift is the filmmakers' cynical belief that their audiences don't deserve any better.
I don't know about you, but I stopped playing with my cars when I was 10 and you never escape the feeling that the characters in this knackered Nissan of a film have never grown out of messing around with their brrm-brrms.
The thin story and thinner characters are just setups for the race sequences, which are punctuated by lavish parties where lithe women seem to outnumber the guys by a 5-to-1 ratio.
OK, they squeezed one more lap out of this franchise. It's been a fun ride, but it's time to shut things down. If you get my drift.
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