Watch The Trailer For Spike Lee’s HIGHEST 2 LOWEST Starring Denzel Washington And Jeffrey Wright

By Michelle McCue | August 4, 2025

When a titan music mogul (Denzel Washington), 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. Brothers Denzel Washington and Spike Lee reunite for the 5th in their long working relationship for a reinterpretation of the great filmmaker Akira Kurosawa’s crime thriller High and Low, now played out on the mean streets of modern day New York City.

In his Cannes Film Festival review, RogerEbert‘s Robert Daniels says, “Lee isn’t setting out to copy what was great before. He is using the past as a starting point to launch into what may be the final phase of his career. He is wielding a plethora of inspirations—musical, cinematic, and historical—to reunite with an old friend. He is making a Spike Lee joint. And it’s exceptional.”

Starring Denzel Washington, Jeffrey Wright, Ilfenesh Hadera, and A$AP Rocky, here’s a look at the brand new trailer.

Spike Lee recently was on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon and said of working with Washington and A$AP, “I always thought that A$AP looked like he could be Denzel’s son. They had a big resemblance. And so when you see it on the screen, it adds an element of father and son, you know? Don’t sleep in A$AP. I mean, he –Because I’m done five films with Denzel, and a lot of times, when he’s in a scene with somebody, they just get overwhelmed. This is one of the world’s greatest actors, living actors today. But A$AP wasn’t having that. I mean, they were going at it.”

Lee went onto say, “It’s a reinterpretation, not a remake, of the great Japanese film “High and Low,” by the great Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. And my fifth film with Denzel. Went to five. “Mo’ Better Blues,” “Malcolm X,” “He Got Game,” “Inside Man.” And Denzel and I did not know there was an 18-year gap between “Inside Man” and this film. We didn’t even know it.”

HIGHEST 2 LOWEST opens in theaters August 15, Streaming on Apple TV+ September 5.