This is one of those film for boys, with lots of cars and funny drifts, but aside from that it looks pretty stupid. I'm not saying it's for boys because it is stupid, just saying that it's for boys because some boys are satisfied with lots of shiny cars. There's this guy Sean (Lucas Black) who apparently is not yet eithteen, although to me he looks more 27 than 17. It starts with the usual lame fights between boys "you talking to my girl?" usual line of the guy who knows he has to play bully to be even noticed, aggravated by his girl that after they decide to race instead of hand-fight says "winner gets me" : really? You sell yourself cheap girl. Btw you sure they want you so badly? They simply want to beat each other, they're not doing it for you.
So, pathetic start of this teenager getting himself into trouble, and since he and his mother changed three towns in two years, it seems getting into trouble is what he knows best. This time mom sends him off to Japan. In Tokyo there's his father, but his rules of coming back home right after school and never going anywhere near a car don't really agree with Sean. His uniform is pretty cool, but he didn't even know not to enter the class before changing his shoes! Come on, he's never read a manga, has he? Probably only cars-magazine, if he reads at all. (Of course the shoes shouldn't be right out the class door, but it was probably convenient to shoot that way). He meets an 'army brat' right away, and Twinkie shows him his car, and doing that brings him into that world of cars and riders "boy, all they care about is who's got the biggest engine" yep girl, it'd seem so. Anyway, Sean meets DK (Brian Tee) whose uncle is Yakuza, and immediately they hate each other because obviously Sean like's Dk's girlfriend Neela (Nathalie Kelley), and he considers her his property. Dk works with Han (Sung Kang), and he's the only good thing of this movie. I like Han a lot, very cool and nice.
Han lends Sean a car, but Sean can't drift and wrecks it. Han is not concerned about that, he says he already has money, it's other things he's interested in. Han gives Sean another car and teaches him how to drift, and it's all going well until Dk's uncle comes in angry because Dk didn't even notice that Han was making money on his own. When Dk arrives at Han's place, at first they think it's because Sean is there with Neela, but soon the truth is clear when Dk attacks Han and even takes out a gun. They manage to escape, and a big race starts. Unfortunately, Han is hit, his car crashes and I had hopes only for a fraction of a second because I saw what was going to happen, then the car exploded and Han died.
God, what's the sense in watching the rest of the movie is Han is not there anymore? He was the only good thing here. For me I mean, because I don't care about watching lots of girls in mini-skirts, and after saying yeah, nice cars! they become boring. After all I can't drive them, right? So.. boring. I don't like Sean, and Neela is kind of plain, what's left? Oh yeah, the final race, of course. Sean goes to the yakuza uncle with some money apologising and proposing a race to settle things between him and Dk. I don't have to tell you that Sean wins the race, now that he's actually learned how to drive and drift. At the end, Sean meets Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) who wants to race with him, saying Han was a friend, that he was family.
You know aside from Han what was the other thing I liked of this film? The credits at the end, they were funny: the guy that started the race (by saying GO) between Dk and Sean at the beginning, is listed as "exceedingly handsome guy" :lol:
That's it. I miss Han. I should make a compilation with only Han's scenes...
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