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Top Five

  • 2014
  • R
  • 1h 42m
IMDb RATING
6.4/10
28K
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Chris Rock, Gabrielle Union, Cedric The Entertainer, Rosario Dawson, Hassan Johnson, Leslie Jones, Karlie Redd, Romany Malco, Tracy Morgan, Sherri Shepherd, Hayley Marie Norman, J.B. Smoove, Anders Holm, and Michael Che in Top Five (2014)
Leading up to his televised wedding to his reality-TV star girlfriend, a comedian/actor who is determined to reinvent himself as a serious actor agrees to be interviewed by a reporter for the New Yorker whose wit and intelligence matches his own.
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A comedian tries to make it as a serious actor when his reality television star fiancée talks him into broadcasting their wedding on her television show.A comedian tries to make it as a serious actor when his reality television star fiancée talks him into broadcasting their wedding on her television show.A comedian tries to make it as a serious actor when his reality television star fiancée talks him into broadcasting their wedding on her television show.

  • Director
    • Chris Rock
  • Writer
    • Chris Rock
  • Stars
    • Chris Rock
    • Rosario Dawson
    • Gabrielle Union
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    6.4/10
    28K
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    • Director
      • Chris Rock
    • Writer
      • Chris Rock
    • Stars
      • Chris Rock
      • Rosario Dawson
      • Gabrielle Union
    • 108User reviews
    • 156Critic reviews
    • 81Metascore
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    • Awards
      • 5 wins & 21 nominations total

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    Chris Rock
    Chris Rock
    • Andre Allen
    Rosario Dawson
    Rosario Dawson
    • Chelsea Brown
    Gabrielle Union
    Gabrielle Union
    • Erica Long
    Kevin Hart
    Kevin Hart
    • Charles
    J.B. Smoove
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    Romany Malco
    Romany Malco
    • Benny Barnes
    Hayley Marie Norman
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    Anders Holm
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    • (as Cedric the Entertainer)
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    8ThomasDrufke

    A Cinderella Story

    The critically acclaimed but underrated audience film Top Five is genius. Not only is it a return to glory for Chris Rock, it's a really great dramatic film. IMDb doesn't list it as drama, but I think the dramatic moments of Top Five were even better than the inevitably hysterical moments. It tells the story of Andre Allen, a comedian and movie star who is struggling to reach the heights of his early career while simultaneously being interviewed by a journalist and preparing for his wedding.

    Top Five caught me off guard. I figured with the cast it has and the premise that it presented, the film would be a goof ball comedy and a throwaway film. Instead, it felt like a mixture of a Richard Linklater and Woody Allen script, with tons of great Chris Rock comedy thrown in. It only takes place over the course of a night or two, and the screenplay is absolutely brilliant. Rock and Rosario Dawson share great chemistry together and light up each others lives, which are otherwise pretty depressing. The back and forth with them and the ability they had to change each other's world views, was reminiscent of Celine & Jesse in The Before Trilogy. I also tend to believe this was loosely based on how Chris Rock viewed himself in the industry and quite possibly several other celebrities. It sheds a light on what may be the many struggles celebrities and past-their-prime actors go through when they are trying to change their career.

    Now I don't know how explicit the film needed to get. At times some of the goofy comedy and characters took me out of the film. I would have much rather the film stay closer to the contained humor that made the film work so well. Besides that, I was really impressed Top Five. The fact that a film involving Chris Rock walking around New York City for a full 2 hours was that interesting is a testament to the script and Rock's directing.

    +Hilarious

    +Dramatic moments hit even more

    +Felt like a Linklater/Woody Allen script

    +Potentially Rock's own story?

    -Stay away from the silly comedy

    8.5/10
    6SnoopyStyle

    a few funny bits

    Andre Allen (Chris Rock) is a standup comedian who became famous for a movie franchise character Hammy The Bear. He wants to stop playing Hammy and do serious roles. He tries to promote his historical drama about a Haitian revolutionary but people only want to talk about Hammy or his impending reality-TV wedding with Erica Long (Gabrielle Union). He reluctantly does an interview with New York Times reporter Chelsea Brown (Rosario Dawson) as she follows him for the day.

    There are some funny moments but in general, the characters feel fake. Chris Rock never really stopped being Chris Rock except when he dives into the drinking. Rosario Dawson is lovely but I don't believe her romantic chemistry with him. I rather she be his sponsor than his girlfriend. After she reconnects with him, she needs to bring him to a meeting rather than a comedy store. When Seinfeld, Sandler and Whoopi show up, it feels like the movie is trying too hard and not terribly funny. Andre's family is funnier. There is an interesting movie here but it takes a couple of wrong steps.
    7The_late_Buddy_Ryan

    Okay, how about an action comedy in English (with Kreyol subtitles) about a slavery-fighting bear?

    Eight stars while Rosario Dawson's on screen, otherwise six. Chris Rock is Andre Allen, a successful standup comic who's arrived at his "Stardust Memories" moment—he's done a couple of dumb action comedies about a crime-fighting bear and wants to redeem himself with a serious film about Haitian slave rebels that nobody wants to see. Some of the plot mechanics are a little creaky, some of the comic set pieces are just distracting (especially the gross-out foursome with Cedric and the topheavy hookers), but the two leads have great chemistry, and the scenes with the two of them just "wandering around bullshitting" (as Ethan Hawke says in "Before Midnight") are totally engaging.

    The comedy sideshow stuff is hit or miss. An extended sequence with Tracy Morgan, Leslie Jones et al. as Andre's old cronies from the 'hood—maybe meant to illustrate Chris Rock's claim that he was only the tenth funniest guy on his block—mostly hits; the shtick with J.B. Smoove coming on to every plus-size woman he meets mostly misses (except when Gabourey Sidibe tells him to knock it off...). Romcom convention dictates that the two leads have a falling out that keeps Rosario out of the picture for a while, which requires a nonsensical plot twist and results in a few flat scenes near the end, but all in all it's an entertaining film.

    Maybe the example of Louis CK has encouraged Chris Rock to base his character more on his own life, instead of playing, e.g., a dweeby investment banker ("I Think I Love My Wife"); as with "Louie," the NYC locations are a big part of the story. He claims that this is the "blackest" film he's made so far, but I have to say that a standup guy from Bed-Stuy who remakes an Eric Rohmer classic ("My Wife"), costars with Julie Delpy ("Two Days in New York") in a film set in Tribeca and steals from Preston Sturgess and Woody Allen is my kind of postracial auteur.
    7brentedwards89

    An entertaining, albeit forgettable, comedy that, despite its faults, is worth watching

    Top Five isn't the best comedy I've seen in recent years, and it is largely forgettable throughout, but it is definitely a breath of fresh air in a movie genre that has, in recent years, become flooded with loud, obnoxious, and expensive blockbusters that try much too hard at being funny and end up only genuinely being funny for enough scenes to fill up the time for its preview. Or even worse, they go on to turn the movie into sequels or trilogies only to repeat the same basic plot with a few new characters for the sole purpose of making money, instead of making a quality film.

    Top Five is a relatively mature and intelligent comedy throughout, that ends leaving the viewer satisfied, and for some wanting more but still content with it being the conclusion to this particular story and set of characters. I don't normally review movies on IMDb, but due to the irony of some of the cruel and unnecessarily critical reviews of this movie given by a decent amount of users that I read, after watching a movie that spends time shining light on the effects words have on people, no matter how famous, rich, or happy they are/appear to be.

    This movie is by no means Chris Rock's masterpiece, but it is an intelligently crafted, and entertaining film that doesn't deserve to be given any less than a 5 rating. The 7 rating I gave it is largely due to the fact that I enjoy Chris Rock's comedy and he showed me in this film that he hasn't lost a bit of talent since his first big break. It's not a movie I would go see in theaters, but if it pops up for streaming on Netflix, its worth a watch for sure.
    5larrys3

    Some Things Work--Most Don't

    Chris Rock, who wrote and directed this film, can be very funny. However, this movie wanders all over the place, and when it doesn't work it can be really awful.

    Why throw in completely over-the-top, unfunny, and highly explicit sex scenes when they seem to come out of left field, and not really congruent with the rest of the story. I much preferred the chemistry between Rock and the superbly talented and beautiful Rosario Dawson, which, I thought, worked really well. Gabrielle Union, J. B. Smoove, and Leslie Jones also added well to the mix here.

    All in all, as mentioned, the movie is way too choppy, with some really cringe inducing scenes, and overall a disappointment.

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    • Trivia
      Chris Rock wrote the screenplay in his trailer during the filming of Grown Ups 2 (2013).
    • Quotes

      Andre Allen: A lot of people don't like dates. It's like, "I hate dating. I hate dating."

      Andre Allen: I like dates. Dates are cool.

      Andre Allen: 'Cause a date means someone is considering fucking you.

      Andre Allen: They have to, like, ponder it. It's just...

      Andre Allen: Anybody you can eat with, you might have a chance of fucking.

      Andre Allen: So, and they're just pondering fucking you.

      Andre Allen: They're weighing it in their head. They're going...

      Andre Allen: Girls are going, "His dick, my mouth. I wonder."

      Andre Allen: And even if it doesn't happen, you just feel... I feel good.

      Andre Allen: I mean, any day somebody thinks about fucking you is a good day.

    • Crazy credits
      During the end credits, Jerry Seinfeld gives his top five.
    • Connections
      Featured in The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: Whoopi Goldberg/Rashida Jones/Tom Colicchio (2014)
    • Soundtracks
      Niggas In Paris
      Written by Jay-Z (as Shawn C. Carter), Mike Dean, Reverend W. A. Donaldson, Hit-Boy (as Chauncey Alexander Hollis) and Ye

      Performed by Ye & Jay-Z (as Jay-Z)

      Contains a sample of "Baptizing Scene"

      performed by Reverend W. A. Donaldson

      Published by EMI Blackwood Music Inc. on behalf of itself, Papa George Music and Please Gimme My Publishing (BMI), Songs of Universal, Inc. on behalf of itself and U Can't Teach Bein The Shhh, Inc., WB Music Corp. (ASCAP) on behalf of itself and Carter Boys Music and Unichappell Music, Inc. (BMI).

      Courtesy of Roc-A-Fella Records, L.L.C. under license

      from Universal Music Enterprises, Atlantic Recording Corp by arrangement with Warner Music Group Film & TV licensing

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    • Release date
      • December 12, 2014 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
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    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Finally Famous
    • Filming locations
      • New York City, New York, USA
    • Production companies
      • IAC Films
      • Jax Media
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    • Budget
      • $12,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $25,317,471
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $6,896,593
      • Dec 14, 2014
    • Gross worldwide
      • $26,117,471
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 42 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Datasat
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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