Product Description

Surviving is against all odds. Ex-cop turned ex-con Ray Mercer arrives in Las Vegas to win back the one thing he still holds dear--his wife, Rebecca. In a casino owned by her current boyfriend, Steve Atlas, Ray wins $450,000. Mistaken for a thief, hunted by a killer, and unable to trust another living soul, Ray soon finds that in a city built by greed, life is a gamble. Peter Weller, Tia Carrere, Peter Coyote, David Alan Grier, Joe Pantoliano, Dennis Hopper.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #130831 in DVD
• Released on: 1999-12-07
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 98 minutes

Customer Reviews

Weller and Hopper in Dull Actioner: Really Waste of Talent
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.

Top of the WUURLD
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.

it takes a while
It took me half the movie to recognize we weren't dealing with absolutely serious stuff here! Then I realized how silly some of the lines and scenes were and had a rather good laugh. Weller and Hopper are perfect for the tongue in cheek approach. Weller in that little train shot may have been a waste of talent but it was a riot.I don't know what the intentions of this film were but it's worth a watch and a chuckle.