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Initial D : 3 of 5
5.10.2006 10:58 PM \| Link	Although I haven't read the manga or watched the anime, I've heard enough about Initial D that I wanted to rent this DVD, which is a live action movie of the hit story. The weirdest thing about this movie is that it's a Chinese film, even though Initial D is a Japanese story set in Japan! On top of that, there are three audio tracks on the DVD (two Chinese and one English), and none of them seemed to actually match the actors' speaking, which was incredibly frustrating (the English voice acting was terrible, so I just had to make do with Chinese). Putting the voices aside, the visuals are incredibly cool! The subject of the moving is "drift racing", which is a style of nearly constant "power slide" movement, meaning curves are the name of the game. The story involves the son of a famous racer who becomes an expert, since he has to deliver tofu up and down a curvy mountain road every night (the montage of his father telling his son's story is really cool). The film is full of racing footage - at least 60% of the movie is racing! The camera work is great, though, and it's always exciting. There are some cool anime-style camera moves, too, where the point of view starts behind a moving car and then moves all the way through the back window and out the windshield. Some of the acting is great, but some is pretty bad - I actually didn't care for the main character, but the father was really great, and the girlfriend was cute, too. I would have enjoyed it more if the vocal track was better, but Initial D is still a pretty cool movie! Labels: dvds


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