Initial D

Just for the record, I have never intended to watch this movie, let alone at the cinema, cos I was never a fan of the original comics and I am not a fan of any of the actors in the movie version either.

But whaddya know? Accident happens, and happen it did.

So after watching the movie, at the cinema..

Other than the slightly annoying attempts of Jay Chow trying too hard to be cool and look innocent (sorry JC fans!), I find that the casts are actually quite well assembled. For the first time I actually liked a character played by Edison Chan, which is no small feat by itself, lol.

Wanted to comment on the rest of the actors, but too bad I have no idea what their English names are, blame me on not following too much on the HK entertainment front :-P

The car racing scenes are of course the limelight of the whole movie, and they are really wonderfully executed, none of the typical HK fake CGI feel, all tyre screeches and angles of the car whooshing by felt real enough to me, and that alone is worth the price of the tickets. Really have to wonder how they managed to pull off all those dangerous stunts.

Call me a naive and uncool guy, but I do think such movies actually might influence youngsters to join car racing, not that we have such beautiful mountain roads in Malaysia :-P

I personally do not view casual car racing (and road speeders for that matter) in good light, so yea although I do agree this is an entertaining movie, I am somewhat concerned how much negative effect it might bring to the hot-blooded masses. Amen.