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Jul 13 2006

The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift

Published by Fence under Moving Pictures

Dir: Justin Lin
Writ: Chris Morgan

Lucas Black - Sean Boswell
Nathalie Kelley - Neela
Bow Wow - Twinkie
Sung Kang - Han
Brian Tee - D.K

Car go fast. Car go bang. And look, pretty girls in short skirts.

Come on, that’s all you were expecting right? I mean, yes I enjoyed the first film, way back when. But it was nonsense. I avoided the second because I was afraid of a [tag]Paul Walker[/tag] overdose. But I’ve been a fan of Lucas Black’s since those American Gothic days, and I figured some mindless entertainment might be fun.

And it was.

Although the plot makes no sense, it is all just an excuse for the cars to drift. And yes, drifting is cool, I thought so when I saw it last year on Top Gear and I still think so. But 104 minutes of drifting is slightly too much. Still, cars go fast. And cars go bang. So its all good. Can’t say as I was impressed by the pretty girls though.

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There is one bit that deserves praise though. I thought the action sequences were very well shot. All the directing in fact was great. Everything looked just as it should, although Black is too old to be playing a school kid. But Diesel was too old to play his role in first film, so maybe they are just sticking with tradition.

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Tags: 6 Stars, action, Bow Wow, Brian Tee, car-racing, Chris Morgan, Japan, Justin Lin, Lucas Black, mindless fun, Nathalie Kelley, plotless, series, Sung Kang, TFATF, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift

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Feb 04 2006

Jarhead

Published by Fence under Moving Pictures

Jake Gyllenhaal - Swoff
Peter Sarsgaard - Troy
Jamie Foxx - Staff Sgt. Sykes
Lucas Black - Kruger

Jarhead is the story of one young Marine as he goes through training and then into Iraq during the early 90’s. It isn’t an overtly political film, although Kruger has a few interesting, if throwaway comments to make. It is a personal view of the war, and how war changes people/

As a film I don’t think that this was anything special. It was entertaining enough, but both Gyllenhaal and Sarsgaard are better than the film. The relationship between the pair is really what is at the heart of the film, the rest is simply the set-up.

And this is fairly understandable, considering that the film is based on the memoirs of Swofford. Of course as a film about war, and Iraq it does have a political message, if you want to see one. If you don’t you can ignore all that.