starring Denzel Washington, Jeffrey Wright
directed by Spike Lee
133 minutes
Music mogul David King (Denzel Washington) faces a quandary after he receives word that his son has been abducted on the same day that he makes a deal to spend everything he has to reacquire controlling interest of the company that he started decades before. The kidnapper wants more money than King has but momentarily things get better when he discovers that it was not his son that was kidnapped but the son of Paul Christopher (Jeffrey Wright), his driver.
King is ready to refuse to pay the ransom, even though the kidnapper insists that Christopher's son will be killed if he does not. He opts ultimately to pay the ransom for various reasons, not all of them altruistic ones. The police promise him that they will get the money and his driver's son back but the money drop doesn't go as planned. The money disappears and King faces a new problem when investors in his company announce that they will sue him for misappropriating company funds.
King, unsure what to do, luckily stumbles across a clue that leads him to the kidnappers whereabouts. An angry confrontation between the music mogul and the kidnapper, both of whom have beefs with one another and are armed with guns.
Thoughts
This film is a remake of High and Low (1963) which I watched about this time last year. The original starred Toshiro Mifune and Tatsuya Nakadai and was directed by Akira Kurosawa. The original is the better film, in my opinion but I enjoyed this version of the story. It is difficult for me not to compare and contrast the two films. There are definite differences between them but there are also a number of similarities.
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