Fast And The Furious Tokyo Drift: 2 1/2 out of 4 Stars

A movie review written by:



Andrew Vigeant


If You Ain't Outta Control, You Ain't In Control. After killing his car in a street race, Shaun Boswell(Lucas Black) is sent to Japan to live with his Military father. This will allow him to avoid juvy, and even jail. He meets up with a guy named Twinkie(Bow Wow) who is also into the world of street racing. He races against D.K. (Brian Tee) who is in with the Yakuza, and loses. He totals the car borrowed to him becausehe can't do the drifting. To repay for smashing the car he learns how to drift and races to pay his debt. After lots of practice he must go up against the man he lost in the beginning, D.K.

Haha, well I was asked to review this movie by my friend from Arlington Heights because he is a fan of my reviews. Hope I didn't disappoint although this movie wasn't that great.

Lucas Black(Shaun Boswell) did a great job as the leading actor in this film. He doesn't let you down even with the horrible script writing this movie has. He seems to especially shine while on screen with women though...hmm...something's gotta be with that. At times he does go to over the top for a car movie which is his downfall in this film. Bow Wow(Twinkie) god I really hate Bow Wow's music. The only thing I hate more is his acting. It's more like talking to a 5 year old. He needs a lot of acting lessons and classes to even reach the level of high school drama class. I don't know what was wrong with the people who cast him for this movie. He doesn't deliver anything at all, and everytime he's on screen it makes you groan. D.K.(Brian Tee) this guy is japanese, and I love the japanese people. He looks like one of those guys who knows the karate, and would kick your ass. Other than that he does a good job with his role, but as far as him in other movies I don't see it happening. His acting is for this role only, and will only fail at others. It works for this movie though, and that's all that matters. Proof of his poor acting, look at his past appearances...all on tv shows..enough said. Han(Sung Kang) you gotta love this guy. His car gets totaled, and he still can smile and joke and be a kool guy about it. He's just what this movie needed. The calm guy. If he was the usual hyper-anger driven guy because you just totaled his car it wouldn't work. Plus this guy is in the movie War, which I haven't seen but looks kool as hell! Neela(Nathalia Kelley) doesn't really add anything to this movie other than when Lucas Black and her talk. She compliments him so immensely it makes him shine so bright. Other than that, though, she doesnt deliver on any level at all but still not as bad as Bow Wow. I mean what the fucks? Bow Wow? Come on now!

While the cars look great in this film, and the driving and skill used are much exciting and entertaining to watch....the script writing and sometimes bad camera angles along with an overall disappointing acting performance nearly causes this movie to drop into the category of not even worth talking about. The director(Justin Lin) must have gained some common sense though because he at least pieced together a few solid actors and gave us a solid plot to follow. Not to even mention the sweet rides we all were able to look at at, and wish we had. Engines reving andsweet looking cars roaring Justin Lin's movie is amazing. Though often times when the talking begins...you begin to feel a sleepy haze...and everything drifts away... Overall I definitely recommend this film. That's unless you have no desire in cars or driving at all in your life. Than you can just go watch something else....you'll be missing out on a enjoyable movie that will give you a fun time.