Me and my cousin were in Blackpool and found this movie in the local charity shop as my cousin had watched the original. We took it back to our holiday apartment to watch. We ended up watching it every single night and twice on the day we bought it. We were up at 2AM watching it at having the time of our lives. This movie is based off the famous Anime show - Initial D. I honestly didn't catch most of the plot as I had the English Subtitles on and was too busy laughing at how amazing it was. It's not as good as the Anime but deserves a 10/10 just for how amazing it is to watch with others (especially in Blackpool at 2AM).

OK so if you are a fan of the anime then you probably wont like this. The racing in this film is OK but I'm biased due to the anime and the film doesn't get no where near the level they do in the anime.The storyline is trying to combine series 1-3 into the film and has left several key plot elements out to obtain this. For example half the characters are missing like Keisuke Takahashi (one of the main characters in the anime). Even some of the personalities have been changed like Bunta (Takumi's dad) he is just a drunk 24/7 who beats Takumi.Overall i think this film fails to capture reasons why people watched the anime in the first place, like the epic racing intense storyline, suspense and rush created in the anime.

Anyone desiring some simple entertainment centered on street car racing will not be disappointed by the very nimble camera work on the racing scenes in this film.Unfortunately, it's a tough film to recommend to anyone. Many would agree that the sexual themes are not for adolescents, while the drama and slapstick comedy are so lame that adults watching it on video are likely to fast-forward to view only the racing scenes.In addition, and most importantly, anyone who has any sensitivity to bigotry must be turned off by the very obvious Japan bashing by the writers. Aside from failing to depict any trace of virtue among the characters, these Chinese film makers have used their artistic license to depict the protagonist's father as almost constantly falling-down drunk, and his beautiful girlfriend as an insulting representation of Japanese womanhood. I'm not even Japanese, but this aspect of the film should be offensive to any intelligent viewer.

The bad: [1] There was no story line. (Or at least the story line went absolutely no where.) [2] The racing scenes were very repetitive, they kept showing the same moves over and over again. This is not very good by today's standard. I expected more, given that this was a relatively high-budget production with some of the biggest name HK actors. [3] Horrible acting from Jay and Edison. There was no chemistry whatsoever between them. I presume from the storyline they are suppose to become friends or develop some kind of camaraderie through racing. Nothing like that happened.The good: [1] Anne Suzuki in short shorts. She's younger than a lot of those cars, by the way. [2] I loved watching Jay getting the crap kicked out of him by Wang Chou Sang. That's gotta be the best part of the entire movie. [3] The racing scenes were not overly done with CGI. It's pretty believable, although not terribly creative. [4] This movie sure brings back fond memories of when those cars were considered cool, which was quite a while back.Overall, not too bad. Wasn't a complete waste of time. I got some entertaining values out of it. Just in case you were wondering, the AE86 is known in the US as -- the Corolla. :D