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Highest 2 Lowest

5.5/ 10

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2025

Release Year

133 min

Runtime

Thriller
Crime
Drama

Overview

When a titan music mogul, widely known as having the "best ears in the business", is targeted with a ransom plot, he is jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma.

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Keywords

new york city
based on novel or book
ransom
remake
based on movie
moral dilemma
insecure
provocative
arrogant
conceited
pretentious

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Reviews(3)

5.3avg rating
C

Chris Sawin

@ChrisSawin

August 12, 2025

6
6/10

Based on Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 film High and Low, which was loosely based on the 1959 novel King Ransom by Ed McBain (the pen name of Evan Hunter), Highest 2 Lowest is Spike Lee’s modern-day reimagining. David King (Denzel Washington) is a music mogul making his fortune as having “the best ears in t

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Brent Marchant

@Brent_Marchant

August 24, 2025

6
6/10

Director Spike Lee is known for having made his share of fine films (“Do the Right Thing” (1989), “Malcolm X” (1992), “She’s Gotta Have It” (1986), “BlacKkKlansman” (2018) and “Da 5 Bloods” (2020), among others), as well as his share of misfires (“Chi-Raq” (2015), “Red Hook Summer” (2012) and “Bambo

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Chandler Danier

@chandlerdanier

September 7, 2025

4
4/10

Denzel is the man. Spike Lee is a GOAT. A24 tends to be the bee's knees. Kurosawa...more GOATed film pedigree. ASAP Rocky also great. Apple ooooh they're a big company. Some could argue the best company... This movie starts off with 2 minutes of some annoying prick's NY vacation footage. Old men

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