Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift Movie Review

Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift

From the maker of the Fast and the Furious and 2 Fast 2 Furious comes the highest-octane installment of the hit movie franchise, Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, offers you plenty of loud, spins its wheels , and fast and furious actions of the coolest cars in town. The movie also introduce a new and exciting specialized style of racing technique developed out of Japan:drifting. The film also features a new cast of explosive action in a different setting from the previous two films, Tokyo, Japan.

In "Tokyo Drift," Lucas Black plays Sean, a teenager who's hot-headed and define his self as an underdog street racer. Sean just can't stay away from illegal street racing, and so to straighten him out, his mom sends him to live with his dad (Brian Goodman), a career Navy man stationed in Tokyo. Now officially a gaijin (outsider/foreigner), Sean has to wear a uniform to school, where he's one of only a few non-Asians and has to get used to wearing funny slippers in class. 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. The secret to street racing in Tokyo is the drift, to let go and let gravity take control of balance of speeding and gliding through a heart-stopping course of hairpin turns. Mastery of the art of the drift is enough to elevate a person to king-like status, like it's done for the Yakuza wannabe DK (Brian Tee), the "Drift King." 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 and introduces him to the real principles of drifting. Here Sean meets new friends and learns a new way to race, at the same time gaining a few enemies. Testing his patience and skill, he learns courage and gains respect from his friends and his father.

Tokyo Drift is about big cars with bigger engines and its more about drifting than speed racing. It also, among the franchise of The Fast and the Furious that offers the audience more hyped and exotic cars. There are many spectacular display of sequence in the film like a lovely night sequence in which a series of cars drift down a spiraling mountain road in a snaky line. Their movement is beautifully choreographed, and their headlights cut through the misty bluish light around them.

All in all, this sequel of the franchise does contain more mind-blowing stunts and heart-pounding racing sequences than ever, Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift puts you in the driver's seat. So you better strap yourself in for a blistering, super-charged ride of your life!.