The Fast and the Furious

The Fast and the Furious Justin Lin Date: June 16, 2006   —   Other Rating:

If you are ever in the mood to watch a movie on highspeed street racing with hair-raising twists and turns, the competitive world of underground streetrace gambling or the dangerous,  fast-paced life of innercity youth, this is the movie for you. Perhaps, you have seen the first two editions of the Fast and the Furious, so you hopefully have an idea of what to expect. Yes, this movie does not disappoint. It is indeed 90 minutes of heart-pumping, nail-biting, breath-holding adrenaline rush. It is a classic movie about screeching tires, tortured brakes, busy gearboxes, shining rims, turbo engines and sheer hair-raising acceleration.

The synopsis on Yahoo has this to say:

"Sean Boswell is an outsider who attempts to define himself as a hot-headed, underdog street racer. Although racing provides a temporary escape from an unhappy home and the superficial world around him, it has also made Sean unpopular with the local authorities. To avoid jail time, Sean is sent to live with his gruff, estranged father, a career military-man stationed in Tokyo. Now officially a gaijin (outsider), Sean feels even more shut out in a land of foreign customs and codes of honor. 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. Sean's simple drag racing gets replaced by a rubber-burning, automotive art form with an exhilarating balance of speeding and gliding through a heart-stopping course of hairpin turns and switchbacks. On his first time out drifting, Sean unknowingly takes on D.K., the "Drift King," a local champ with ties to the Japanese crime machine Yakuza. 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 of misfits and introduces him to the real principles of drifting. But when Sean falls for D.K.'s girlfriend, Neela, an explosive series of events is set into motion, climaxing with a high stakes face off."

This movie will surely have you on the edge of your seat!

tags: fast and furious  tokyo drift  

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