Twenty-four year old high school student Sean Boswell is a moron. He's also a speed addict and a busta. Trouble seems to follow him everywhere he goes. Mainly because he's a dumb ass. His latest racing-related wise decision (illegally street racing through a house!) ends up with his parents sending him to the Tokyo Drift Capitol of the World: Tokyo, Japan, as punishment. It seems that his parents are morons as well.
Once in the Tokyo, it takes Sean less than 24 hours to not only get in a race, but to also destroy an expensive car belonging to a local yakuza and to flirt nonstop with another yakuza dude's girlfriend! Jesus wept, this tired of living motherfucker is an idiot. Fortunately though, for some bizarre reason, the one yakuza guy takes Sean under his wing and trains him Mister Miyagi-style how to be the "drift king". None of this makes sense and it's all very silly...and highly entertaining in a bad way. I liked it. It was dumb as fuck. If TFATFTD had been a Takashi Miike joint, Sean would have ended up skinned alive and/or with a ladle shoved up his butt (yes, that's a GOZU reference), but since this is a light-weight studio film, everything comes down to the big race at the end. Cause, you know, that's how most organized crime groups settle their disputes...with drifting. Goodfellas 2: Brooklyn Drift comes to mind.
Ridiculous story, zero logic, Atari Teenage Riot on the soundtrack, fast pace, dated fashions, subpar racing scenes that were not exciting, lackluster photography, stiff acting. Overall, TFATFTD was uneventful and lame, but it was just so damn stupid that I liked it. It was good to laugh at.
Fun fact: often when I'm playing racing games, I'll randomly yell out "Tokyo drift!!!" while drifting. True story.
Part 1 - The Fast and the Furious (2001)
Part 2 - 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)
Part 4 - Fast & Furious (2009)
Part 5 - Fast Five (2011)
Part 6 - Fast & Furious 6 (2013)
Part 7 - Furious 7 (2015)
Part 8 - The Fate of the Furious (2017)
Spin-off 1 - Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019)
Part 9 - F9 (2021)
Part 10 - Fast X (2023)
