20 Most Disappointing Movies of 2025
9. Highest 2 Lowest
Even when you're a filmmaker as celebrated as the great Spike Lee, remaking a classic Akira Kurosawa film is just asking for trouble.
And while a modern day reimagining of Kurosawa's 1963 police procedural High and Low had some measure of potential, especially with Denzel Washington in the lead role, this is one of the sloppiest and most confused offerings of Lee's entire career.
The scripting and directing are so flat, so weirdly corny, that one almost feels like Lee made the film sarcastically, as though to thumb his nose at the many who trashed his previous remake of Oldboy.
Washington tries, because of course he does, and it has a few punchy sequences, but for the most part this is a strangely dull, poorly paced remake that also has the misfortune of featuring one of the most hilariously out-of-place musical scores of the entire year, or really any other.