The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)
Directed by Justin Lin
In order to avoid a jail sentence, Sean Boswell heads to Tokyo to live with his military father. In a low-rent section of the city, Sean gets caught up in the underground world of drift racing
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What critics say influenced The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
"The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift," the third installment of the thrill-driving franchise, moves to Japan, where revved-up car culture is spot welded to disaffected youth culture in a videophone version of "Rebel Without a Cause."
The second feature lasts 13 minutes and features critics (including Leonard Maltin) and crew members discussing pretty much every popular movie and TV series owned by Universal that involves cars, from "American Graffiti" and "Smokey and the Bandit" to "Knight Rider" and "Magnum P.I." to "Back to the Future" and the "Bourne" films.
It is a series that seems to suck the life force out of good directors, first John Singleton in "2 Fast 2 Furious," and now Justin Lin, whose debut film "Better Luck Tomorrow" was excellent.
The second feature lasts 13 minutes and features critics (including Leonard Maltin) and crew members discussing pretty much every popular movie and TV series owned by Universal that involves cars, from "American Graffiti" and "Smokey and the Bandit" to "Knight Rider" and "Magnum P.I." to "Back to the Future" and the "Bourne" films.
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The even worse sequels 2 Fast 2 Furious and The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift followed.
Set after 2 Fast 2 Furious (but before Tokyo Drift), Fast & Furious follows Vin Diesel's Dominic Toretto and Paul Walker's Brian O'Conner as they reluctantly team up to take on a shared enemy (John Ortiz's Campos).
Director Justin Lin ( Better Luck Tomorrow ) gives us some exhilarating racing sequences, going from close-up cuts to slo-mo shots as cars zip, flip, glide and burn as much rubber as possible.
Promising young Taiwanese-American director Justin Lin, whose low-budget high school crime story "Better Luck Tomorrow" was a hit at Sundance a few years ago, was saddled with a tepid script in his first Hollywood production, "Annapolis."
Strange, but logical, acutally, for two reasons -- the director this time is Justin Lin, who was responsible for the new skewed-angle view of Asian-Americans in Better Luck Tomorrow ; and the side effect of The Fast and the Furious franchise has consistently been its helping to mold a newer, more current view of youth culture for the multiplexes.
People who consider his Better Luck Tomorrow a hard-hitting portrait of Asian-American tension (I don't) will want to excavate thematic links from the franchise's latest locale, the Tokyo of glitz and neon and schoolgirls cheering for the nocturnal rumbles, though the macho-maturation arc is probably far closer to the teen-underdog mildness of Lin's previous dud, Annapolis.
Perhaps learning from "2 Fast", director Justin Lin, who wrote and directed the wonderful "Better Luck Tomorrow", dispenses with formalities and puts the rubber to the road almost immediately.
The film marks another step down for once-promising director Justin Lin (Better Luck Tomorrow), whose Annapolis was a major disappointment earlier in the year.