A crazy-cool screech of a movie, "The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift" is a complete gas, a mad cross-cultural twist on a near-forgotten film genre that keeps your eyes glued to the screen even as your mind is screaming "Cheese! Cheese! Cheese!"
The only tragedy is that everyone can't see it at a drive-in. This movie was made to be enjoyed while kicking back on vinyl or ignored while steaming up the back windows.
Director Justin Lin has essentially airlifted an old dead-man's-curve rebellious teen hot-rod flick and dumped it in the middle of ultra-modern Japan with its cascades of techno chatter, skyscraper walls of glittering lights and teeming streets filled with people. Yikes, what a contrast.
