Product Details

• Actors: Peter Weller, Dennis Hopper, Tia Carrere, David Alan Grier, Joe Pantoliano
• Directors: Sidney J. Furie
• Writers: Bart Madison
• Producers: Kevin Bernhardt, Avi Lerner, Bob Misiorowski, Danny Dimbort, Elie Samaha
• Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Image Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: December 7, 1999
• Run Time: 99 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00002NDLU
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #115,761 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Top of the World" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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3.0 out of 5 stars ok, June 27, 2009

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Donna Mccool "Donna" (Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Top of the World (DVD)

This was entertaining but not an award winner. If you like the actors you will enjoy the movie.

2.0 out of 5 stars Weller and Hopper in Dull Actioner: Really Waste of Talent, April 11, 2006

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Tsuyoshi (Kyoto, Japan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Top of the World (DVD)

The greatest part of B-action film `Top of the World' is its cast: Peter Weller and Dennis Hopper. The worst part is that it totally wasted the cast with absolutely inept script. Some may say the script is intentionally made unconventional. Sorry, but I just don't think so. Some may say that the film doesn't take itself seriously. Right. But anyway it simply cannot take its awful story seriously, which goes on forever, fraught with dull characters who do not know what they want to do.

An ex-convict and ex-cop Ray (Peter Weller) meets again his estranged wife Rebecca (Tia Carrere) after released on parole. They want divorce right now. They go to Las Vegas naturally. They go to the casino of the title in Las Vegas where she works, owned by one arrogant guy Charles (Dennis Hopper).So far everything goes like autopilot with colorless acting from the three.

I don't know why, but certain gangs rob the casino the same day Ray and Rebecca arrive. While Ray is mistaken for a robber in a very stupid way, real criminals are also so incapable of handling the situation that they start to shoot everyone around them when it is unnecessary, and get themselves trapped inside the casino. I am afraid the director himself also failed to grasp the situations surrounding them more than once because the robbers seem to stop thinking about running away, and keep shooting at whatever in front of them, in order to provide us with the unexciting shoot-outs that have no meaning at all. There are several good actions, but they come few and far between.

The film tries to create the not-so-serious-and-not-too-comical tone, the touch that can be found in the best Eddie Murphy films, but it lacks the raw energy and laughs that good B action films sometimes have. Whatever you do, it is not funny to see innocent guards or woman shot by the brainless thugs, or to see these brainless thugs killing each other.

Beside these interesting names of Hopper, Weller and Carrere, the cast `Top of the World' include Joe Pantliano, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, and Peter Coyote, but none of them are required to show what they really can do. It is not a little shocking to see Sydney J. Furie directing this nonsense, and remember his works in the past like "The Ipcress File." But that was in 1965.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Top of the WUURLD, March 4, 2008

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Robert Twiddy - See all my reviews
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Top of the World is a great movie. It is a comedy with no comedic talent. But, it made me laugh many times. You wont find it in hardly any rental stores, and not at Walmart. I found my copy in a dumpster at a storage facility. I admire the hilarity of the scenes with their intended effect, NOT TO BE BELIEVABLE. And my other comment, You dont get to see Tia Carrara's legs at all. She must have been busy with baby. or something. Overall a great ham-n- egg commedy, would have better if they had cast Jeff FoxWorthy, Larry the CableGuy, Carrot Top, in the major male roles, but you cant have everything.