Top Five (2014)

If ever you want proof that the New York Times lacks the nerve to give a movie the bad review it deserves, just watch Top Five. It is poorly written (by Chris Rock), poorly directed (by Chris Rock), poorly acted (Chris Rock stars in it), trite, and predictable, and filled with scenes (you know the kind) that have no point other than to boost the audience. While this review is based on watching less than half the movie, from all reports, it doesn't get better as it goes along. Even J.B. Smoove, who does turn in the one good performance in the film (although it's not his best performance), and can usually save anything, cannot rescue Top Five from the inferno it should be damned to for eternity.

IMDb Link to Top Five

PS: For anyone who does not know who J.B. Smoove is, and you are to be pitied and should immediately watch or re-watch Curb Your Enthusiasm in which he was brilliant, here is a hint:



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