Unpredictably, its owner, Han, becomes one of his new best friends. Predictably, Sean totals his (loaner) car. Sean’s cocksure bravado quickly lands him in a parking-garage race with the arrogant DK (the Drift King). Drift racing venues include any drivable surface where curves and turns beckon, from parking garages to sinuous mountain roads. Unlike street racing in many parts of the U.S., which focuses on straight-line speed, racers in mountainous and heavily populated Japan are masters of the drift-using the car’s handbrake and clutch to slide around any corner at high speed.
The rules are crystal clear: Come home after school, and don’t get behind the wheel of any car.īut the street is a magnet for Sean, and it takes him all of five minutes to stumble into Tokyo’s burgeoning underground racing scene. Boswell ships Sean to Tokyo to live with his estranged father. To keep him out of juvenile detention, Ms. Everywhere his mother moves to give him a fresh start, the too-fast teen knows but one way to solve his problems: on the street.īut when his latest street race goes terribly awry, there’s nowhere left for him to go-in the States. Sean’s need for speed, combined with an overly proud posture and perpetual outsider status, is a volatile combination. The 17-year-old high school senior is addicted to speed-to the tune of seven tickets in three states, as well as two reckless-driving charges. What it does share with them is an adrenaline-inducing story full of fast cars, reckless racers and short tempers just waiting to explode.
This third entry in The Fast and the Furious franchise has almost nothing in common, story- or character-wise, with its predecessors.
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