I expected no less and no more than what I got: Vin Diesel, fully using his newly acquired love for Shakespearian acting, gives us a performance of style and finesse. Too bad that's only in the last minute of the movie.
In the rest of the movie, hot head teenagers race for no other reason than adrenaline overdose, using top class Japanese cars in Tokyo. The story is pretty weak, too, but if there are people that get turned on by cars, this is a porn movie, and they don't really need a story.
For a movie placed in Tokyo there was a suspiciously low number of Japanese actors with actual lines. The cute Asian chicks appeared only in a few scenes, then "drifted" away. Lucas Black, with the same accent he has 10 years ago when he played an annoying kid in American Gothic, has now a big pack of extra muscles and a winning smile.
Conclusion: fast paced car movie, nothing else, really. A few free Japanese lessons now and then and a very peaceful representation of the Yakuza. And the disclaimer in the end felt so funny when my heart was beating faster against my will from the speed racing and it said "everything was done in a controlled environment, don't try this... blah blah blah".
In the rest of the movie, hot head teenagers race for no other reason than adrenaline overdose, using top class Japanese cars in Tokyo. The story is pretty weak, too, but if there are people that get turned on by cars, this is a porn movie, and they don't really need a story.
For a movie placed in Tokyo there was a suspiciously low number of Japanese actors with actual lines. The cute Asian chicks appeared only in a few scenes, then "drifted" away. Lucas Black, with the same accent he has 10 years ago when he played an annoying kid in American Gothic, has now a big pack of extra muscles and a winning smile.
Conclusion: fast paced car movie, nothing else, really. A few free Japanese lessons now and then and a very peaceful representation of the Yakuza. And the disclaimer in the end felt so funny when my heart was beating faster against my will from the speed racing and it said "everything was done in a controlled environment, don't try this... blah blah blah".