This post will consist of four points, the first being this point outlining the content of this post which will be followed by points about the movie, and will close with my recommendation; without further ado, lets begin.
The movie starts off with music playing against the backdrop of a pitch black screen, you hear a beat building up and your brain quickly starts scanning it's archives to figure out what that beat is. By the time the screen fades from black to the actual starting movie credits, you realise that this movie begins by playing some DJ Shadow (Six Days [Mos Def Remix], from the album Private Repress), and from there the music just progressively gets more bad ass. Case in point, later on in the film they break out some classic Atari Teenage Riot (Speed, from the album Burn, Berlin, Burn), it was such 90's retro digital hardcore goodness, and so fitting with the Tokyo drifting/gearhead theme, that it was chilling how good of a choice in music they made.
Point the third, is that if you have ever played Namco's Ridge Racer, and have relished every second of the drifts used to shave seconds off your laps in tight turns, then this film is for you.
Point the fourth, my wrap up of this review. This movie was much better than 2 Fast 2 Furious, and in the archives of cheesy guy flicks this definitely ranks in there as one of them. Plus that surprise ending, bravo sirs, bravo. And lets not forget that awesome zinger at Hyundai owners, ehh jcloth?
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random fact: Toyo donated 4000 tires for the movie. Roughly half were used. Volk Racing donated 170 wheels as well.
random fact: All of the drifting in the movie was performed by professional drivers, not created by CGI. As reported in a recent Sport Compact Car, Rhys Millen, his father, and a handful of other famous rally and drift racers consistently performed amazing drift sequences for the movie.
Here are some girls posing with the cars from the film, truly the stars of the show (I think I meant the cars...):
The movie starts off with music playing against the backdrop of a pitch black screen, you hear a beat building up and your brain quickly starts scanning it's archives to figure out what that beat is. By the time the screen fades from black to the actual starting movie credits, you realise that this movie begins by playing some DJ Shadow (Six Days [Mos Def Remix], from the album Private Repress), and from there the music just progressively gets more bad ass. Case in point, later on in the film they break out some classic Atari Teenage Riot (Speed, from the album Burn, Berlin, Burn), it was such 90's retro digital hardcore goodness, and so fitting with the Tokyo drifting/gearhead theme, that it was chilling how good of a choice in music they made.
Point the third, is that if you have ever played Namco's Ridge Racer, and have relished every second of the drifts used to shave seconds off your laps in tight turns, then this film is for you.
Point the fourth, my wrap up of this review. This movie was much better than 2 Fast 2 Furious, and in the archives of cheesy guy flicks this definitely ranks in there as one of them. Plus that surprise ending, bravo sirs, bravo. And lets not forget that awesome zinger at Hyundai owners, ehh jcloth?
Suporflous filler
random fact: Toyo donated 4000 tires for the movie. Roughly half were used. Volk Racing donated 170 wheels as well.
random fact: All of the drifting in the movie was performed by professional drivers, not created by CGI. As reported in a recent Sport Compact Car, Rhys Millen, his father, and a handful of other famous rally and drift racers consistently performed amazing drift sequences for the movie.
Here are some girls posing with the cars from the film, truly the stars of the show (I think I meant the cars...):