The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006, USA)

As hangover movies go, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (or as I like to call it, The Fast and the Furious: Cracker in Japan!) nears the pinnacle of the genre. It’s truly awful, but supremely enjoyable. The car tricks are awesome – I haven’t seen the second installment, but the stunts in Drift certainly exceed the car work in the original Fast and Furious. For that reason, I kind of regret not seeing this on the big screen, though I may have had to go to the theatre in a mask. In any case, the dialog is horrible, the plot nonexistent, and the cast is very, very pretty (who knew that Lucas Black would grow up to look like this?).

One note of regret – though Better Luck Tomorrow wasn’t the best movie, it was certainly interesting, and it spoke to part of the American audience that doesn’t get much attention from mainstream or independent cinema. It’s a little disappointing to see Justin Lin making crap like Tokyo Drift and Annapolis after a promising debut, but everyone’s got to pay the bills.