Auto Drift Mania

THE Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift stars Sean Boswell as Lucas Black, an American teen with a penchant for racing fast cars.

Black destroys most of a construction site in a race, and is given a choice by the authorities - go to prison or move to Japan to live with his estranged father.

Within a day of arriving in Japan, the young racer is introduced to the underground world of drift racing.

Drift racing is a driving technique that involves controlling a powerslide around a track. Unlike conventional racing, where sliding is avoided, drifting embraces the sliding to enable the driver to drive sideways.

Anyone familiar with the franchise will realise the Fast and Furious movies pull in the fans with the cars and the racing. If you're looking for a great plot with Oscar-winning performances, you might want to look elsewhere.

The races in Tokyo Drift are as good as it gets. Watching these thrill-a-second marvels will have your brain asking your eyeballs for a repeat.

There's something about watching a ridiculously modded Nissan 350Z sliding its way to the top of a multi-storey car park that puts other racing films to shame.

The film looks fantastic - the brightly lit neon streets of Tokyo are the perfect setting for a drifting flick.

The third Fast and Furious film follows the formula laid down by the first two - so you don't have to be Nostradamus to spot the ending - just sit back and enjoy.

And The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift gets bonus points for the most incredible piece of product placement I've yet witnessed (watch out for a spinning bottle during a crash scene).