Coming from Andrew Lau and Alan Mak, the Hong Kong duo who co-directed the Infernal Affairs trilogy, Initial D: Driftracer is desperately disappointing. It's based on a Japanese animated series about young men indulging in illegal roadracing around the hairpin bends on Mount Haruna, an active volcano in eastern Honshu. The hero is 17-year-old Takumi (Taiwanese pop star Jay Chou), who has learnt his art driving a souped-up Toyota Sprinter, delivering tofu from his father's shop. A once promising driver, Dad has given up dangerous sports for conventional married life and now, as an alcoholic divorcé, seizes a second crack at glory. It's flashy, cliché-ridden, crudely acted and took more money at the Hong Kong box-office than War of the Worlds and Batman Begins combined.