The Single Biggest Mistake Each Fast & Furious Film Has Made

Tokyo Drift, the bizarre odd-one-out of the franchise which has little connection with the other films for the most part, really isn't very good at all.

The Tokyo setting is really cool, Han (Sung Kang) is a great character and Justin Lin (making his franchise debut) directs the action sequences well and thankfully dispenses with any of the second film's awful CGI, but the film is still quite a slog.

The main reason for this, aside from the mostly dull characters and the replacement of Vin Diesel and Paul Walker with a thoroughly tedious new lead (a wooden Lucas Black), is that this movie's story just isn't interesting in any way.

There's precious little in the way of stakes or characterisation and there's even less of a sense of danger than in the first film. It's basically just protagonist Sean trying to become the new Drift King of Tokyo.

There's a tiny bit of stuff involving gangsters, but essentially most of this movie is one bloody street race after another and it all gets so tiresome so goddamn fast. Thanks to this, Tokyo Drift is one of the worst films in the series and unless a completionist, you really should just skip it.