Review of The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) by Arlene F — 07 Dec 2012

Tokyo Drift : Literally one of the gold standards of evidence to verify the impotence of film critics to like a film that they would not on the face of it look cool liking. A film to expose the cliquey self-pandering limp bullshit, and vaporous affected vanity of film critics everywhere.

Since, actually there is plenty of multi-layered and playful reversals of expectations and subtle transgressions against types that occurs in this film. It's big, genuinely emotive, well-paced and deliciously playful, but it wasn't written to suck the cocks of film critics so of course, they don't put out. Perhaps most damningly of all, a film critic liking this film would then have to endure placing him or herself in the same row of the cinema as a 'dumb-jock' or motorhead, who could also enjoy it, albeit for perhaps somewhat altered reasons. This is the core of the films humble brilliance : equally valid different readings that drop a laser-guided drone-strike on film critic pretension.

5 severed-heads-of-film-critics for this masterpiece.