The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)'s comments

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Marazmatique

Way too 'impressionable teen'-oriented. Also wins the award for least likable protagonist ever.

11 years 10 months ago

Kenneth McMahon

Worst of the bunch, and easily the most annoying lead actor in a film ever.

10 years 3 months ago

meysam_a

drifting and racing in the mountain were cool if u also played nfs carbon...

11 years 6 months ago

Watching it was worth it just for the gut-busting laugh I got out of seeing Bow Wow's Hulk car. Utter and complete ridiculousness, kind of like the whole movie. I've only watched as far as this movie in the series but they gotta get back to the roots of the first movie after this one, right? Golly I hope so.

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It's kind of sad that this was the last movie to really feature the street racing aspect of the franchise. Beyond this It's more explosions, spies, and international bad guys. Really a major change in genre.

5 years 4 months ago

Siskoid

Even Paul Walker isn't in Tokyo Drift, and audiences for a long time resented the attempt to turn F&F into an anthology series about street racers of all sorts, I think. Vin Diesel puts in a cameo but that's it. Instead of any cast member we would have recognized at the time, this one stars Lucas Black as the world's least convincing teenager, getting shipped to Japan to live with his dad after getting into too much trouble in the States. He soon gets into "drift racing", runs afoul of a Yakuza's nasty nephew, and gets mentored by Han, who we WILL see again. It's also Justin Lin's directorial debut in the franchise, and connects only slightly awkwardly with his later installments. Ignore Han and Dom's apparent ages though, and I think it works pretty well, with a later film giving meaning to Han's senseless death (but in a way that's completely divorced from these events). Otherwise, it's a return to the franchise's roots, with a focus on racing and macho posturing, though structuring it like a martial arts movie is a good wrinkle, perhaps inspired by the setting. In any case, Lin's direction has some fun flourishes, so I consider it a small notch better than the original.

5 years 7 months ago