Top Five - film review

Chris Rock takes his ego for a ride in Top Five, writing, directing and starring in this motorised - and, God knows, motor-mouthed - cine-selfie. Actually Rock has the wit and decency to crash his ego occasionally, or his character's. He plays an action-comedy movie star who, disillusioned with popcorn celebrity, tries selling out to art. But his Haitian revolutionary movie Uprize is a failure. And the fan-mag foundations of his coming wedding to a young black diva - all photo rights sold - are brutally exposed by friendly-fiend journo Rosario Dawson, tailing him for an interview. (Cue romance.)

The film is up, down and all around: a flailing comedy machine with a "keep it real" message and some spurts of errant magnificence. Cedric the Entertainer is glorious as a rowdy, debauched concert promoter. Adam Sandler, Jerry Seinfeld and Whoopi Goldberg - there's largesse - have pop-up cameos.

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