A return to form for the franchise. The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift one ups the white guy acceptance fantasy of the original film by placing the hero in a setting where he can definitively be considered other. Stranded in Tokyo with his disinterested Dad, Lucas Black's Sean even gets to be discriminated against racially - surely a dream of sorts for the kind of flyover Caucasian who strains for any kind of exotic affectation? 3 Fast borrows heavily from Japanese pop culture products like Initial D, emphasising a weaving street race style rather than the drag strip histrionics of the first two films. Director Justin Lin shoots his actors straining to keep control of their cars, using swirling computer effects to stress Japan's dangerous, densely populated streets. A massive improvement on the Hot Wheels unreality of the previous Fast.
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