Tokyo Drift Review
The third episode of the Fast and the Furious Saga brings us to Japan where all tha hard Japanese Sports car are born. You’ll get more excited when you check out the trailer. However, if you’re a true love enthusiasts and you are into driftin. You might wanna think again. Lets just say its not up to that level of expectations. The thing that makes this third volume different from the other two is that it focuses more onto the drifting technique (obviously). So you’ll be expecting lots of hot rod burnin smokin tyres and all. Thats exactly what you’ll get and theng again it just might not be enough if you ask me.
The cars are wonderful, the bodykits were great and the atmosphere was amazing. The starting point was kewl with all tha tense and driftin around, but i would have to say there’s just too much american job put into this japanese scenes. First point, if you know drifting, there are many ways to do so. In the movie however, its the same technique and the simplest technique in da driftin book used, da e-break. Even D.K (drift king, super japanese bad guy in da movie) uses this lame technique. If you were to recall Jay Cheow’s Initial D, their technique were much more advanced and skill full i would say where they press the breaks and rev at the same time with one foot without using the hand breaks. In the Tokyo Drift you would notice that the camera keeps on focusing on the empty break padle to show that no breaks were used, just to show how good they are at driftin without the breaks. But notice pulin the hand breaks were shown, this would have to be the easiest technique in drifting,used only by rookies.
Secondly the drift scenes; i would really prefer Initail D’s driftin scenes where they really enhanced the sports and arts of drifting through the camera lense. Here, the shots were just to simple, typical and american. Lets say if you’re watching a Kung Fu movie compared to an American Fighting scene, it’s like you can really notice the difference on how kewl and realistic a chinese kung fu scene looks like compared to an american grumbling and slow motion cinematography. Initial D’s drifting technique is more appreciated i would say compared to this one. Check em out if you wanna know what im saying. 
Lastly the ending scene; also compared to Initial D (where i would grade as the best drift movie eva) the ending scene brings us to a similarity where cars race themselevs driftin down hills. The difference is that Jay Chow’s more passionate in the sportsmanship of driftin to beat Edison Chen to the last corner. Also we can have the drunk old daddy explaining how the whole race would come to an end if so does so and so. In the latest Tokyo Drift however, you’ll see that another lame american style of racing is being imported into a japanese scene, car bumpin. You see it all the time in Mission Impossibles, James Bond, Thriple X, and bla bla. All of the sudden, the driftin sequal wasnt so important anymore. Its more to suspense and thrill.
The good thing i would enjoy about this movie is that its whole atmosphere of Tokyo’s underground street racing world. Also, the car makeovers where somethin. The enhancement of the latest Nissan Fairlady 350Z sure was sumthin. I never knew an FD RX-7 would look so stunnin. Anywayz, overall i would give it a B grade. Initial D, not so good lookin cars but kewl driftin, Tokyo Drift, way slammin rides but not much of a drift. So this still puts Initial D on top of my race movie list, followed by the fast and furious thrilogy. 
