Yuck. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift is really terrible. The film opens with a race where a woman is literally a prize to be won and that should warn you instantly of the degrading, insulting trashiness inherent to the film. This opening actually becomes a metaphor for the entire film, which is just a ridiculous dick-measuring contest involving cars where the winner essentially gets the helpless damsel in distress. There's a literal conversation about how men understand cars better than women. Every character is a stereotype, from the "trailer trash" characters to the rich kids to a whole plethora of Japanese and broader Asian stereotypes. This film may be set in Japan but the four lead good guys…

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Woah. What was I thinking a few years back when I first saw this one? I used to hate this movie and I was completely dreading to rewatch this one, but color me surprised. No, VERY surprised. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift is easily the best film so far in the franchise, blowing the first two out of the water. There's an actual plot with understandable motives, a much better sense of pacing, some sick car races and a somewhat memorable villain.

However, I still had some issues with it. Lucas Black might possibly be the worst actor to grace the big screen in quite some time. His acting always garners some…

There is something so overwhelmingly moving about the Fast and Furious series. I have spent many hours of the last few weeks trying to piece together an assortment of words that properly convey the emotional power that this franchise has left on me for years of my life. There will always be this mythical unexplainable element to it that words will never be able to articulate fully, that kind of gut feeling that sticks with you your whole life and that you’ll do anything to bring back over and over again. The closest conclusion I’ve come to is that the series is currently the closest view I have to a version of masculinity that is both recognisable to me as…

The "Halloween III: Season of the Witch" of the Fast/Furious franchise, Justin Lin's "The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift" bears little connection to its predecessors beyond fast cars and a certain cameo. Those fast cars create energy and color, however, making the quick-paced, sometimes exhilarating experience an enjoyable, light-weight romp.

Following a teen troublemaker as he relocates from the US to Japan for one last chance living a life free of incarceration, "The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift" finds the good-hearted youngster picking fights and racing cars down Tokyo's streets. A rebel without a cause who can rarely avoid trouble no matter his best intentions, the young man finds redemption behind the wheel as his own path tangles…

"Boys, all they care about is who has the biggest engine" - Girl Character,

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Tokyo Drift takes a dramatic turn from the rest of the series by choosing to focus on a country boy learning his way in Tokyo. I know a lot of people have a secret love for this but I miss the more charismatic actors and the charm of the first two.

5 Quick Thoughts:

(1) Kid Rock played without a hint of irony, man this franchise really celebrates trash culture in a way that's wonderful. I see why it is so popular.

(2) If a girl is willing to give herself as the prize for…

The third instalment in The Fast and the Furious franchise, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift takes its street-racing thrills to a whole different continent, brings a new freshness into the series by discarding the original cast of its predecessors while adding a few new styles, but this new vibe fizzles out soon as the plot is marred by numerous shortcomings.

Set many years after the events of the first two movies when series chronology is taken into account, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift tells the story of a high-school teenager with a penchant for car racing who's sent to Tokyo to avoid prison time in America for his illegal street racing activities but soon discovers an…