I’m in the middle of watching the anime and decided to check this movie out. I will say I thought the racing scenes were really fun, but the rest of it was not so much. It starts off with a good sense of humor and there are some funny scenes throughout, but there’s a lot of focus on the romance subplot (which is something that happens in the anime too) but I just don’t care. I really couldn’t care less that the protagonist’s girlfriend is [spoiler here]. I wish it wasn’t in the anime either because I came here for car racing, not unrelated angsty manpain. Any focus on women racers would’ve been great in the anime or here, but without every woman being followed by those annoying romantic subplots, for god’s sake. (End rant.) I love how excited the crowds are for the racing in this movie, and we even get to see Bunta and Nakazato get excited sometimes, which makes them seem more down to Earth here. I really wish Ryousuke got more hype though, he’s supposed to be the best racer around and he got the absolute least hype here, which is kind of sad. He got no background story at all either, but at least seeing him going around looking for Akina’s best racer made him also more down to Earth in this movie. Keisuke doesn’t make any appearance, as it would probably be too many characters for the movie. Personally, I think they should’ve gotten rid of Natsuki entirely and used the time to hype up Ryousuke more or add Keisuke. One last thing to mention, I don’t follow actors but Nakazato and Ryousuke’s actors are really cute. I wouldn’t rewatch this movie except to see the racing scenes again and would only recommend it to anyone very interested in Initial D.