The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift

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Year:	2006
Country of origin:	USA / Germany
Director:	Justin Lin
Genre:	I feel the need, the need to drift….
Starring:	Lucas Black, Bow Wow, Atley Siauw, Brian Tee
Rating:	3/5
IMDB link:	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0463985/
Tagline:	If You Ain't Outta Control, You Ain't In Control.
Favourite line:	"There's an old saying: 'For want of a nail, the horseshoe was lost. For want of a horseshoe, the steed was lost. For want of a steed, the message was not delivered. For want of an undelivered message, the war was lost.'"

Second sequel to the sleeper hit The Fast and the Furious, here the action leaps continents, taking us into the murky underworld of street racing, Nippon style.

A young punk racer, Sean Boswell, is once more caught by the police engaged in high speed races. Boswell is faced with a choice: go to jail, or move to Japan to live with his military minded father.
So, no choice at all, really.
Inevitably, upon arrival in Japan, everyone he bumps into seems to be driving a hotrod and is into street racing to obsessive levels, so Sean is dragged back into the world he vowed to his folks to avoid.
Oh, there's also some spume about The Yakuza and a love triangle, but the only reason you are watching this is for the car fetishism, and it's here in all its glory, long lingering shots of fenders and cylinders and more curves than you'd find beside Hugh Hefner's pool, with characters actually declaring the machinery they gape at 'beautiful.'
Just wait until they see a pair of tits.

Whilst it lacks the charm and the rawness of the original, this is still ninety minutes of brainless entertainment that kept me watching, shameful as that may seem.
If stimulating dialogue, subtle allusions and political allegories is your bag o' washin' I'd avoid this like Typhus, but if something dumb but fun inflates your dirt pipe, you could do worse.