Personally, I thought that movie was the worst film they could have produced.

I'm going to leave it at that, because i already typed all this up on mazda3forums, and for some godawful reason, they all thought the movie wasnt bad or quite good.

http://www.mazda3forums.com/index.php?topic=30058.210

I and my friends find page 8 and 9 to be pretty hilarious if you read some of their responses to my posts, classic stuff.

 

the movie could of been better with more cars, more drifting, no bow-wow, and the real drift king(takashi suchiya-the guy with the blue coat fishing). but the few things that were sweet:, is the Rb26dett powered mustang with fake muffler, twin-turbo'ed 350z's, converted evo to rw drive(the red one), veilside's rx7(orange/black), and some insane drifting which all of it was actually performed by real d1gp drivers. so the movie had its ups and downs but waaaaay better than the first 2 c

 

The thing is, All the Drifting was performed by pro drivers, but not in the places they showed it

Alot of the environments were CGI

I just can't stand how dumb everything is in that movie....

examples...
"What's Driftin'?"
When he does donuts around the R34 (maybe it was a 33 i don't remebmer)
the fact that the kid can't drive at all.

 

I liked it. They could have had more cars, and the main caracter was quite the caveman. And they deff over played his ability to not drive.

But other then that even bow wow wasent that bad. There was the whole sacralige of putting an Rb into a mustang. If only they had proper muscle like the second one.

 

if everybody is complaining about the plot, why even bother with a plot? a lot of japanese, hk car movies put the main character in the car because he needs to be there for the sake of something bigger than himself, or prove something that needs to be done. in the american movies there is always a drug dealer, little bro gets kidnapped by evil mob guy, or some million dollar theft ring, or some kind of crappy scenario that makes illegal driving "OK." the car (or cars) should get equal amounts of attention so nobody goes "watch it for the cars, not the plot" because the cars are also the star of the show. how much fun is it to sit thru 60 minutes of mindless story and 20 minutes of actual car action? apparent a lot of fun cuz everybody is talking about it. the initial D live action movie wasn't all that great, but it was leaps and bounds ahead of any F/F movie. sure they used CG scenery, and that really bugged me too, but the car stunts were real--take that paul walker, and the story was already well developed from the manga/anime. i would not pay my hard earned money on any F/F movie, but i wouldnt mind watching a behind-the-scenes for kicks.

 

The movie was not bad, everybody thought that since bow wow was in it they said wtf, and when i seen it all he really did was hustle and be a good friend to the (to put it bluntly) white trash retard, i mean bow wow didnt talk much which was a good thing but what really got me thinkin was wtf was he driving, i couldnt tell but it looked like a Honda Fit. It was kinda stupid how they wanted to put the most fav japanese motor in the fav (atleast they think every American person loves the stang) American car. They didnt do such a good job keeping it realistic (i mean more than they were supposed to) i mean this, the parts where the guy was tryin to drift the blue and orange S13, he hit the pillars at the rear fender but when he put it in forst and drove away the part where he hit was clean and undamaged but the door and front fender was slightly smashed, the sad part is that happened on more then one occasion and the other sad part was when it happened it was glaringly obvious, especially the cgi parts. What im really mad about is that they had desotroyed that S13 a crap load of times...all that money, and all the cars except the fake Mclaren (it was an rx-7), Lancer, and the rx-8, had Skyline motors, 3 of which were twin turbo, and to make matters worse is that they babying those cars when it came to speed the fastest they went was 111mph and that was the rx-7 AFTER it used the bottle on the highway, the cop radar in text clear as day said 197kph, when it drove by. Alot of the cgi parts felt like it was watching a Scion commercial, and were horribly blended with the actual flim, and another thing i so wish our local street racing scene was as nicely setup like they had it, for us its just race, race, race, race, cops come we run to new location, rinse and repeat, so anyway was it worth the watch...yes, was it all it was hyped up to be...well none of the F/F series were that good, should you stay away?Only if you really want to rant about a movie that was good but not terrible. Oh and Japan rules

 

i think they said that they spent 3 weeks or something fitting the skyline engine into the mustang, but all the drift scenes were done with the V8 mustangs.