Chris Rock’s Top Five: Review

[dropcap1]I[/dropcap1] honestly can’t remember the last movie that made me shout out loud “FUCK YASSSSSS” at the movie screen while clapping and snapping my fingers to quips, one liners, thought provoking quotes (read: bars) and hearing various people doing the same all around me. Oh, I can’t remember cause that hasn’t happened to this magnitude before. Chris Rock’s Top Five was a fucking movie. Fuck that, in my opinion this was THE Movie. Remember in Bad Boys when Martin Lawrence finally drove efficiently enough to prompt Will Smith to get in his ear? After watching Top Five I was shouting, “THAT’S HOW YOU MOVIE! FROM NOW ON THAT’S HOW YOU MOVIE!!!”

Top Five is the story of Andre Allen (Chris Rock) who is tired of doing the funny Hammy movies (think Big Momma’s House XXXIV but in a bear suit) having already released 3 and decides to go the route of more serious roles. He is promoting his most recent movie Uprize which is based around the Haitian revolution (shout out to my Dad for teaching me bout Toussaint Louverture & Dessalines since age 5) much to his agent (Kevin Hart) chagrin. He rips into Andre recalling that he was so against the film that he emailed his response to Andre doing Uprize with massive N-bombs so that it would get flagged by his work email JUST so that he would have it on file that he was against this career direction. The best thing going for Andre is his wedding to reality TV star Erica Long (Gabrielle Union) which plays on a larger scale as the movie…