A card credit at the end of Spike Lee's entertainment sex crime thriller Minimum 2 lowest Read: "Inspired by Master akira Kurosawa." This kind of tribute does not feel at least as lip-lip service people. Reinterpreting the Giant of Japanese Cinema in 1963, High and lowLee and screenwriter Alan Fox are tense police procedures that dramatically dissect social class structures and handle materials with utmost caution and respect. Meanwhile, they transfer the narrative spine to Lee's environment, who knows very well, allowing the director to make his own films with wit, high fashion and kinetic energy.

Minimum 2 lowest It is Lee's first feature filming in New York since 2012 Red hook summerthis absence seemed to re-vibrate his love for the city in a visual playground way.

This impression is immediately sown by the shock of the opening Okaa Oklahoma! Photographer Matthew Libatique's camera glided around scattered Manhattan and Brooklyn, kissed by soft morning light. Notably, the frame captures a large full-hat pink neon light on the top of the building, simply saying "Welcome", which could be a subtle nod to the pink factory smoke in Kurosawa otherwise B&W Original.

Mobile cameras eventually settled on a luxury apartment building in Dumbo, at Plans plan pan to find Denzel Washington, a music industry big shot David King, talking about business in a cell on the loft balcony. Right away, we can see that he is a confident man, from ear to ear, he thinks it is a deal that must be made.

This is Washington's fifth film with Lee, and they obviously have a shorthand that helps them dance to each other. The most memorable collaboration of the new film is another attempt to genre filmmaking, the 2006 Capers robbery. heartless than the precise plot engine, fast pace and crackling energy.

The talented Libatique also filmed the film, but his work here is the next level. This is a beautiful movie with a rich visual sheen and looks like cashmere. Lee uses David Records logo, a row of guns as a split screen that works like a rag, thrives like wipes, and a stylized insert conceived like a music video, and performed behind an orange dress by singers in orange jumpsuits, with twerking beackup dancer beside the magic.

When David's elegant wife, Ilfenesh Hadera, asks him to donate the usual fat check to the city museum where he sits on, he tells her to delay for a while and pay back the expenses for a while. This is not something she has ever heard of.

However, their teenage son, Aubrey Joseph, was used to hear his father's disappointment and promise. David didn't listen to the presentation for an aspiring music manager Trey wished he had signed on to a female artist, and he would apologize when he rushed to a business meeting instead of staying to see Trey and his best friend Kyle (Elijah Wright). (In one of the few winks of other basketball fans, Lee served as one of the team’s coaches with former Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers player Rick Fox).

The meeting to evacuate David was a bold plan to raise his stake to a majority stake in Stackin’s hit rate and regain control of the company he ruled for 25 years in the early 2000s. He told his driver Paul (Kyle's father is on the screen and off) that he needed his psychological place, "I need a theme!" Paul hits "We're not stopping us now" in the car stereo by exploding evergreen McFadden and Whitehead Disco.

He strode towards the company's office building in a sharp suit and killer-like shadows as if he already had it all. But when senior board member Patrick (Michael Potts) told him that they had decided it was time to sell to a larger music business outfit that had hovered for a while, he met the opposition. Later, he revealed to the suspicious Pam that he mortgaged the penthouse and their home in Sag Harbour despite the wishes of the board, and hoped to obtain a large loan.

But when the call arrived, it was revealed that Trey had been kidnapped and that the company's bid for the acquisition would be driven by the family crisis. A team of detectives led by John Douglas Thompson, Bell (Lachanze) and Higgins (Dean Winters), a smug white dude who immediately creates friction with David - operated in their restaurant. The kidnapper demanded a ransom of $17.5 million or threatened to kill Trey.

Pam said they would pay of course, David agreed. But when Trey is discovered and a kidnapper appears messing up the boy and then brings Kyle to Kyle without changing his terms, David hesitates and $17.5 million pays a lot for someone else’s kids (even the kids of his right person). In addition to stopping David’s business plans, the money can eliminate them.

One of the most important changes is reconcepting the driver role. In Kurosawa's version, the driver is an extremely gentle man who falls on the floor and begs for the harsh shoe maker boss played by the great Toshiro Mifune to save his son. Paul is modest, especially when the detective’s past of crime prompts them to question him as a subject. He wasn't the one who bowed and scratched with David, either, even though he was grateful for his work and a new beginning.

One of the key themes of Fox's script is attention as currency. Love for beloved industry figures David plays a role in social media when his son seems to be in danger, but when the whole story comes up, his son seems to be shifting suddenly, causing unfounded headlines like “Nepo Kid Trey establishes a kidnapping friend”.

David did eventually agree to the payment because the police would catch the criminal and get the money back. Dolly Zoom highlighted David's sober risks, especially in a lawsuit that Stackin's move-out company, and even threatened legal action.

The second part of the film starts with an exciting train installation, which probably represents Lee’s most shocking direction. The abductor asked David to handle the cash drop on four trains in Manhattan and convey more details on his cell.

Lee made the action more motivated by performing in the context of the Puerto Rico Day celebrations, with hundreds of people performing live in Latin music’s great Eddie Palmieri and his orchestra blocking the opportunity to enter the strategic metro station. The situation on the train is just as chaotic after the noisy baseball fans in Yankee Stadium.

The exchange didn't go as planned, and the kidnapper and his crew were more organized and forward-looking than the detectives expected, repeatedly throwing them away from the swap between the bait and the motorcycle, all wearing the same head-to-foot black between them. It's a very exciting sequence, much more skillful.

The kidnapper fulfills his promise to release Kyle, who is sleepy but is unharmed at Bronx Skate Park, somewhere in the basement bathtub that is bound and blocked for a few days. He couldn't help the clues much, but he was able to buzz rap tones that repeatedly hit the walls.

It was priceless for David, his musical ears were valuable, but when he tracked the singer through Paul's dark contact, the police looked down on him, Higgins more than anyone else. David and Paul decide to track down the singer (one of the countless struggling artists, denied Stackin's door without waiting for law enforcement to catch up.

Of course, when Washington's character was almost an action hero, the film was on the familiar Hollywood ground, despite the prickly and ruthless manner that made him almost an anti-hero. But damn it, if not for the fun, it would be better off discussing the characters from ISIS "Ice Spice" Ice Spice and a blind charismatic twist, for destructive reasons.

A scene is sure to be a favorite for the audience, with David and his opponent facing each other on either side of the studio’s glass walls, triggering an interesting improvisational rap battle. This dynamic quickly echoed during the prison visit, and Lee narrowed down the character's tense interactions at Lee's height.

The film is full of great music, starting with Howard Drossin’s emotional transition, ranging from melancholy piano to a series of jazz, and two exciting performances, adding a lot of expense. One of them is the protagonist, the singer Aiyana-Lee's large-scale manufacturing power for heaven. The cast is excellent from top to foot, with special honors for Washington, Jeffrey Wright and A$AP Rocky who follow his work If I have legs, I'll kick you The scale state of the megawatts is further demonstrated.

Lee's adaptation is inconsistent with the complexity of class and hierarchical structures and even dynamics in marriage, a fascinating part of Kurosawa. Again, he is not trying, this is a universe far away from disappointment Old boyhis 2013 remake of the Park Wooden Bull thriller. The director plays the role of glitz, Panache-y's performer here, and he plays the perfect role, offering a big movie of pure enjoyment.