Highest 2 Lowest Review

Highest 2 Lowest Review

Highest 2 Lowest opens in theaters Friday, August 22, before streaming on Apple TV+ on Friday, September 5. This review is based on a screening at the Cannes Film Festival.Spike Lee can shift tones mid-movie like few other directors – and in Highest 2 Lowest, he swings that pendulum as hard as he possibly can. Based on Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 crime drama High and Low (as well as its inspiration, the novel King’s Ransom by Ed McBain), it’s a curiou…

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Highest 2 Lowest – first-look review

You come at the king, you better not miss – but unfortunately, Yung Felon (A$AP Rocky), an aspiring rapper and first-time kidnapper, who meant to abduct the son and heir of hip-hop mogul David King (Denzel Washington), accidentally grabbed the chauffeur’s boy instead. No matter, he still wants 17.5 million Swiss francs – cash, unmarked, in a black Jordan brand backpack – or the wrong kid dies. The setup of Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low, adapted …