20 Recent Movies That Made ONE Huge Mistake

When Spike Lee was announced to be directing a remake of Akira Kurosawa's legendary 1963 film High and Low starring Denzel Washington, there was naturally considerable interest.

But what a bizarre, baffling movie this is from top to bottom. 

Though Washington gives a solid performance and there are a few tense, effective sequences, large portions of the film are totally undone by a laughably ill-suited musical score from Howard Drossin.

Drossin's over-the-top, melodramatic music would be perfect for a Lifetime movie, but in a film produced by one of the greatest filmmakers of all time? It's intensely distracting from first minute to last because it feels so aggressively out of place.

Some have tried to make sense of this by suggesting that Lee made the score jarring on purpose and was basically trying to parody generic procedural films, but c'mon - are you really hiring Denzel just to drop a cinematic s**tpost?

All the same, it's tough to make sense of quite what the hell Lee was thinking otherwise.