With Fast & Furious 6 out very soon (and i'm very excited for it) I thought a Fast & Furious related blog would be fitting, instead of doing one on the franchise and story of Dom and Brian (Vin Diesel and Paul Walker's characters) I thought about Tokyo Drift.
Tokyo Drift completely moved away from both the first two films story lines and set up a new one
Now I know Han is in fast 4,5 and 6 which means Tokyo Drift essentially is the last in the franchise (unless part 7 changes that) but I honestly think Tokyo Drift is actually a better film as a stand alone, If you take out Vin Diesel's cameo at the end, the film is a great action, adventure film.
I'm going to list a few reasons why Tokyo Drift is better as a stand alone film -
1. New characters, New story:
With The Fast & The Furious sending Dom of into the sunset in the gorgeous Toyota Supra and 2 Fast 2 Furious giving Brian and Roman and clean slate we essentially didn't need any ties to Tokyo Drift. TD introduced Sean Boswell (Lucas Black) a troubled teen who loves to race, when he gets kicked out of school and sent to Tokyo to live with his dad, he is embraced by the Drift scene. Already this plot is nothing like Fast 1 or 2 (or 4,5 and 6) the latter films all include trouble with the law, family and freedom. TD is about a young lad taking a shine to drifting and the typical action esque subplot of him falling for a girl he shouldn't. Now I'm aware Han is back for 4,5 and 6 but his life before TD doesn't matter as such, his role in TD is a lot bigger and more important as he sees the real potential Sean has for Drifting.
2. It Could have set up its own franchise:
As said above, the film was a new plot with new characters, if the film didn't have "Fast & Furious" tied to it we may of seen a sequel or two, it isn't the critically favourite film out of them all, but if it was a stand alone film it may of had a better chance of continuing a story. I know many fans want Sean to be included since part 5 obviously 4,5 and 6 are all prequels to TD and from what early rumours are saying is that 6 brings us up to TD. So if fans want some more Sean, why not continue his story away from F&F tagline.
3. The Time line confuses that S**t out of people:
Again mentioned in point 2. Everyone when they saw part 4 was like "Why is Han here?" then fans obviously realised that part 4 is a set up to TD and was a nod to Dom's cameo in which he says Han and him rode together. Han himself the in part 4 "I hear there's some crazy s**t going on in Tokyo" this led fans to believe they was giving a nice send off to Han and explaining Dom's arrival in TD. Then Part 5 came along and brought Han back?! Ok so he never made it to Tokyo or "SPOILER" survived a car explosion (doubtful) then once again Part 5 nods to the audience that Han "one day" will go to Tokyo, we assume he will go after 5 ended. Now to part 6, he is back again! which means this film (part 7 can't be explained until 6 is released) is now indicating TD isn't far away, the clues are all over part 6, First off Dom says in TD; "He has all the time in the world" part 6 indicated they all get full pardons. Also fast 6 gave Han a promotional poster in which he has his amazing RX-7 from TD, now if he has that car it must be close to Tokyo time because most the car the group have explode!
4. The Concept of Drifting is a lot of fun.
In honesty TD and maybe Part 4 was the last films to feature cool tricked out cars and street racing, whilst Fast 5 was awesome and the car sequences were amazing, they skipped out on a few scenes that could have been nostalgic to watch. Now the Drift scene was a lot of fun to watch, the final race on Drift mountain was a great race sequence and took a new spin on street racing. I personally love drift racing its a new spin on racing and made TD a lot more interesting to watch.
So what do you think guys, Would Tokyo Drift make a better stand alone film?
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