I was never really a fan of The Fast and the Furious film series but I got pulled in by Tokyo Drift. I and a friend wasn’t expecting much but found it to be pretty entertaining. It wasn’t a great movie, however we found great entertainment in the crazy plot and endless cliches. But Fast & Furious was quite a let down.
I think the main problem stemmed from the fact that they chose to have the two lead characters wait until half way through the movie to confront each other. But that’s the main reason we were watching, to see what Paul Walker and Vin Diesel’s characters do to each other. By waiting what they leave us with is an uninteresting plot around running drugs. They try to build the other characters up, but I was never really open to learning about them as all I wanted to see was Vin Diesel and Paul Walker go at it.
I was impressed with what director, Justin Lin, was able to do with Tokyo Drift however this was quite a let down. It was nice to see how they integrate characters from earlier movies but they only play ancillary roles to the weak drug running plot. And the racing through a mine shaft was too much, even for me.