- 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: Full Screen, PAL
- Language English
- Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: 18
- Studio: Marquee Pictures
- DVD Release Date: 29 July 2003
- Run Time: 99 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00004CYYG
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 61,927 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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From the director of 'Superman' and 'Iron Eagle' (Sidney.J Furie) and a famous cast that includes Dennis Hopper, Peter Weller, Tia Carrere and Joe Pantoliano, this in-your-face action thriller is crammed with tension and breathtaking stunts - including a dam wall plunge that makes James Bond's famous bungee jump seem like a stroll in the park. It all begins like the perfect day for ex-cop, now ex-con, Ray Mercer (Weller). He finally gets out of jail...is met by his stunningly beautiful wife...visits a Las Vegas casino...and wins a massive jackpot. But, having gently tapped him on the shoulder, Lady Luck is about to punch Ray very hard in the face. Still on payrole, he shouldn't even be in the casino...his unfaithful wife wants a divorce and ....suddenly he's caught up in a brutal heist that's gone catastrophically wrong. And, as the bodies start piling up higher than the casino's chips, the trouble really starts when mysterious gangster 'The Butcher' arrives... Now the painful lesson Ray's about to learn is that the big danger with being on Top Of The World is it's a very, very, very long wat down...!
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
For a relaxing and entertaining night in, I would definitely recommend this movie. Like all Tia Carrere's movies, this movie is a very nice one.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I bought this film about half a year ago and found it very enjoyable. The storyline is set around a casino and very enjoyable. In this film you will recognise actors as such from Robocop and Speed showing that this film is of a high quality. The fight scenes in this film are great, but the most astonishing bit is a drop of a damn which will leave you thinking "OH MY GOD". This is a must buy for all action fans as it's great and at a good price
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This was entertaining but not an award winner. If you like the actors you will enjoy the movie.
Top of the WUURLD
5 Mar 2008
Format:DVD
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.
Weller and Hopper in Dull Actioner: Really Waste of Talent
11 April 2006
Format: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.
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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