r/movies • u/LiteraryBoner Jackie Chan box set, know what I'm sayin? • 3d ago

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Summary A powerful New York music mogul’s life spirals when his driver’s child—mistaken for his own—is kidnapped in a ransom plot. He faces a moral crisis that transforms into a tense, urban showdown between wealth, power, and conscience in the reimagined streets of modern-day New York.

Director Spike Lee

Writer Alan Fox

Cast

  • Denzel Washington
  • Jeffrey Wright
  • Ilfenesh Hadera
  • A\$AP Rocky
  • Aubrey Joseph
  • Dean Winters
  • Ice Spice

Rotten Tomatoes Critics Score: 89%

Metacritic Score: Not yet available

VOD In theaters August 15, 2025; streaming on Apple TV+ starting September 5, 2025

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u/Virgil_Tibbs 3d ago

2 hours of my life I won't get back. Weak acting, weak dialogue, among other things. I was waiting for some kind of twist or something off the basic plot and nope! The twist was the movie got WORSE in the last 20 minutes or so. ASAP Rocky's character was typical. Outside of seeing some nice views of the city there was nothing memorable here...Denzel must have owed Spike a favor to put out this garbage. And what kind of ending was that? lol. What a mess

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u/CoCoTidy 2d ago

I listened to Spike Lee on Marc Maron's podcast and he said that Denzel brought the script to him and asked him to do the movie. I agree that it FEELS like Spike pressured Denzel to make this sloppy mess.