Twinkie - Twinkie

Advantages: Great Film, just like the others
Disadvantages: Goes on in one or two places

...This is the first film review I have ever written, so I'm sorry if it's terrible. Hints and tips about writing film reviews are much welcome, so please leave some feedback. Tagline: If You Ain't Outta Control, You Ain't In Control The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift Overveiw. Sean Boswell (Lucas Black) has an obsession with fast cars and racing, and as a result of totalling his car in an illegal street race; he has landed himself the chance of facing a jury or a jail sentence. The only way that he can escape this is by going to Japan and living with his military based father in a small, low rent part of Tokyo. At school, he meets Twinkie (Bow Wow), a 'Military Brat', who takes him and introduces him to the underground word 'drift' racing events that take place around the city. He borrows a car off Han, a friend... Read review

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Advantages: Some Fancy cars
Disadvantages: All been done before, poor direction, script and acting

...After the moderate success of the first 2 movies it seemed almost inevitable that The Fast and The Furious franchise would make a third and hopefully final outing. The first film seemed to have something different, it was a decent concept, with a couple of decent actors and the whole concept worked. The second was no where near as good but at least held a throw back to the first film with the retention of one of the lead characters. From the moment I heard about Tokyo Drift I thought it would be a stage too far, but would I be proved right? Having been turfed out of a number of schools Sean Boswell (Lucas Black) is shipped off to Tokyo to live with his father. He lives in a pretty run down part of town but Sean soon manages to get himself back into the local illegal racing circuit with the help of his new found friendship with Twinkie... Read review

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Advantages: great soundtrack, realistic drifting scenes, beautiful girls, hot cars
Disadvantages: simple story, no deep characters

...This third installment of the Fast and the Furious (the original starred Vin Diesel, who makes a brief appearence in this movie)stars Sean Boswell as Lucas Black, who we find out is a part time mechanic and street racer in the US. In the intro to the movie we see Lucas take on Clay (Zachary Ty Bryan)in a red Chrsyler Viper over a challenge concerning a cheerleader Lucas sees in the parking lot. The race ends badly when Lucas smashes his car to pieces and gets convicted by the cops for reckless driving. The only saviour is his mother, who decides to send him to Tokyo, where her ex-husband and Lucas's father Lieutenant Boswell (Brian Goodman)lives. Lucas attends a japanese school and is told NOT to race a car by his father. But at this very school he meets not only Twinkie (Bow Wow), who introduces him to the Toyko drifting world... Read review

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