Highest 2 Lowest (2025)

Directed by

Spike Lee

Genre

crime film, thriller film, neo-noir

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 13m

Rated

R

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 494 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A wealthy man faces a terrible choice when his driver's son is kidnapped in a case of mistaken identity. The film follows the cat-and-mouse game between the police and the kidnapper in New York City.

tensesuspensefuldarkmethodicalgrittycity-setmoral

What happens

Highest 2 Lowest is a 2025 American crime thriller film directed by Spike Lee from a screenplay by Alan Fox. It is an English-language remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1963 Japanese film High and Low, itself based on Ed McBain's 1959 novel King's Ransom. The film stars Denzel Washington, Jeffrey Wright, Ilfenesh Hadera, ASAP Rocky, John Douglas Thompson, Dean Winters, LaChanze, Princess Nokia, and Ice Spice (in her film debut). It is the fifth collaboration between Lee and Washington and the first since Inside Man (2006). Principal photography began in New York City in March 2024 and wrapped that May. Highest 2 Lowest had its world premiere out of competition of the Cannes Film Festival on May 19, 2025, and was released theatrically in the United States by A24 on August 15 before becoming available on Apple TV+ on September 5. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, but was a box-office bomb. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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