This idea offers a series of events about the comedian's story, where that story begins when the comedian tries to stand up to him as a serious actor and there may be something different about that actor. When his fiancée talks about his wedding on her television show, there seems to be something quite different.
It's a familiar structure that Rock juggles well and fills with sharp, smart, and often hilarious take on the mid-life crisis of an artist caught between public expectations, private ambitions and anxieties, and professional compromises and commitments
Like Rock's best stand-up shows, Top Five mixes the sweet with the salty, the naughty with the remarkably kind. It celebrates the darkly hilarious with the light of whip-smart observations.
[An] overly self-referential comedy shot through with an uncomfortable dose of Serious Themes.
Flavorwire
June 07, 2016
He finds a cinematic approximation of his act: free-flowing, unpredictable, personal, spiced up with pop cultural references, political shout-outs, and a decidedly hip-hop energy, and above all else, funny as hell.
