It has been practically 20 years since Spike Lee and Denzel Washington labored collectively on a characteristic. However for his or her fifth outing, they’re going excessive and low, reteaming for the primary time since 2006’s Inside Man for Highest 2 Lowest, the trailer of which has formally dropped forward of the film’s August fifteenth debut.
Right here is the official plot of Highest 2 Lowest, courtesy of A24: “When a titan music mogul (Denzel Washington), widely known as having the “best ears in the business”, is focused with a ransom plot, he’s jammed up in a life-or-death ethical dilemma. Brothers Denzel Washington and Spike Lee reunite for the fifth of their lengthy working relationship for a reinterpretation of the good filmmaker Akira Kurosawa’s crime thriller Excessive and Low, now performed out on the imply streets of recent day New York Metropolis.” The film runs 134 minutes, barely shorter than Kurosawa’s movie.
Highest 2 Lowest had its premiere at this 12 months’s Cannes Movie Competition, the place it screened out of competitors (and Denzel was shocked with a particular Palme d’Or). Whereas it had some blended critiques popping out of the fest, it presently holds an 89% on Rotten Tomatoes and continues to be completely going to be one of many must-see motion pictures of the 12 months contemplating the reunion of Lee and Washington. The supporting solid options Jeffrey Wright, Ilfenesh Hadera, Dean Winters, ASAP Rocky, Ice Spice, and Wendell Pierce.
Whereas preliminary feedback from Denzel Washington appeared to level at his imminent retirement, he has since clarified and mentioned he’s within the “return part” of his profession. At any time when the time comes for Denzel to hold it up, we’re glad he was capable of get yet one more Lee collab in, as their movies collectively – Mo’ Higher Blues, Malcolm X, He Received Recreation, and Inside Man – are among the better of their respective careers.
As talked about, Highest 2 Lowest will hit theaters later this month earlier than arriving on Apple TV+ on September fifth. For these all in favour of seeing Kurosawa’s unique, it’s presently streaming on The Criterion Channel and HBO Max.
What do you consider the trailer for Highest 2 Lowest? Will you be checking it out in theaters or Apple TV+?
