I think Justin Lin and his team did an awesome job of portraying drifting and Japanese culture to the American audience, and there were even some cool cameos by your favorite import models and Japanese celebrities, including, yes... the real DK. Not Donkey Kong, I'm talking about Dorikin, Keiichi Tsuchiya. I spoke with Justin about it yesterday, and he credits much of the movie's success in "keeping it real" to one of my personal friends, Toshi Hayama. Justin just kept mentioning Toshi's name and crediting him every time we asked him about Japan, drifting, and the "keeping it real" aspect. And no shit! Toshi did a hell of a job consulting with this movie, because we did NOT hear about "Motec exhausts" and crap like that. In fact, you could see several cameos of Tosh throughout the movie, that was pretty funny..!

I also liked the fact that you didn't see a whole lot of lame CGI like you did in the John Singleton version (2F2F) of the movie. Justin used real drifters as the stunt drivers- people like Rhys Millen, Samuel Hubinette, Tanner Foust, CalvinWan, Alex Pfeiffer, and even Japanese drifting legends like Nobushige Kumakubo, and Kazuhiro Tanaka, just to name a few. The 7 car tandem sequences you see in the movie were REAL! I loved it! It was exciting as hell...

In fact, the whole movie was pretty exciting and entertaining overall, from the drama and excitement of the action sequences, to the storytelling part of it, which is usually boring in most movies... but the FF3 producer and director prevented any potential mind wandering during the movie because there was always something interesting to look at, whether it be interesting details of the Japanese apartments, tuning shops, clubs, schools, intersections, or maybe it was just alot of hot chicks with short schoolgirl skirts... but either way, they kept it entertaining, and injected some humor into the script too, making it a really fun and entertaining movie overall.