(Warning: Spoilers from “ Highest 2 Lowest” below…)

Nearly 20 years after their last collaboration, Denzel Washington and Spike Lee are teaming up again for a crime thriller that shows the two-time-Oscar-winning actor going to great lengths to protect his family and his music empire.

Lee’s “Highest 2 Lowest,” a modern re-imagining of the 1963 film “High and Low” by Japanese auteur Akira Kurosawa (which was a loosely based on Ed McBain's 1959 novel “King’s Ransom”), introduces audiences to Washington’s character, David King, a music mogul at a New York City music label called Stackin’ Hits Records. David intends to thwart a merger at the company so he can buy the label and have complete control of the company he helped build. But on the day of his planned business deal, David receives

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