Harockerce What a beautiful movie!

BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Clifton Johnson This movie started unevenly: odd cameos and unreal moments. The longer it went, the more I cared. Rock managed to make this character an actual person in actual moments. That's when it got funny. And worth watching. Here's hoping Chris Rock builds from here.

Prismark10 Top Five is written, directed and stars Chris Rock as Andre Allen. It is a one note idea where he plays a stand up comic, a former drunk who has had box office success with some silly comedy films. He is due to get married to a high profile reality television star and promoting a serious film about Haitian rebels which is heading for flopsville.Allen accepts an interview with the New York Times, Rosario Dawson who plays the junior reporter and they walk and talk about his career from his early hell raising days to the present. It is not helped that the Times main entertainment correspondent hates Allen's movies with a passion.The fact that Rock plays a character called Andre Allen and it seems semi autobiographical brings to mind Woody Allen. Maybe this is Rock's attempt to do Stardust Memories or Annie Hall mixed with Before Midnight as Dawson and Rock just converse and get on well with each other.I just found the film dragged, uneven in tone and not too funny although I did smirk at a few places. There are some star cameos nearer the end of the film as Rock ropes in some old pals.Even when Rock does some stand up at the end of the film, it is made to look so unnatural that you think that Rock should had got someone else in who is more competent to direct this. It is messy and self indulgent which relies too much on guttural humour when Rock hypocritically wants to pass himself off as an artiste.

elect1407 This movie made absolutely no sense! First let me say that I'm not a big fan of comedies, but I have loved just about every Chris Rock movie until this one. For me Top Five was painful to watch. I was thirty minutes in and was begging for the movie to be over already. The only thing that worked for me was the chemistry between Chris Rock and the female co-star. I thought that their storyline was pretty good at times. But other than that this movie was dry. I feel that this was Rock's poor attempt to give us an inside look into his personal struggles, as if we care. And the title "Top Five" makes no sense. I still don't understand the point of him having a conversation with his friends in the middle of the movie about their Top Five rappers. That whole scene should have been a Youtube video instead of a scene in a senseless movie because it had absolutely nothing to do with the movie. There were many elements in this movie that had nothing to do with each other which is why I only gave it 2 stars.

SnoopyStyle 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.