 As many of you know, I’m inordinately fond of The Fast And The Furious 3: Tokyo Drift. Director Justin Lin started with a clean slate and made one of the most enjoyable B movies in years. He was rumored to be working on an American re-make of the Korean thriller Oldboy, which would be a colossal mistake. Fortunately, development on that stalled out, and he is delivering another Fast And Furious.
That’s right. Instead of appending a roman numeral or a pretentious under-title, this time the filmmakers are going the other way… by dropping the “the”s out of the title. This time, it’s just Fast And Furious. The surviving cast from the first film are all back – Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez, and Jordana Brewster, plus the super cool Sung Kang from Tokyo Drift. And I’m not ashamed to admit it, but this excites me much more than many of the bloated, faux-profound slam-bang offerings we got at the multi-plex this summer.
When I saw this on the big screen, I was so excited, I started texting my motor-head friends from the theater, mid-trailer. This is a true teaser trailer. No “voice of god” intonations, no anticipatory title cards to start with. The first :75 is all one continuous action scene from the film, and while it lacks the power-slide stunt driving of Tokyo Drift, it’s still full of hard-nosed driving and more than a little gunplay.
Watch it here: Fast And Furious
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