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Top Gun (1986)

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Reviews Counted: 29

Fresh: 12

Rotten:17

Average Rating: 5.3/10

Runtime: 18 hrs 10 mins

Genre: Action/Adventure

Synopsis: Maverick (Tom Cruise) is a reckless F-14 pilot who flies by instinct and breaks all of the rules. While attending the Navy's elite air combat training academy, affectionately known as "Top Gun,"... Maverick (Tom Cruise) is a reckless F-14 pilot who flies by instinct and breaks all of the rules. While attending the Navy's elite air combat training academy, affectionately known as "Top Gun," Maverick romances the civilian astrophysics instructor (Kelly McGillis) and competes with crackerjack pilot Ice (Val Kilmer) for top honors. He is the quintessential rebel, upsetting senior officers with his antics and risk-taking while simultaneously amazing them with his skill. In the end, Maverick overcomes a tragic loss and his need to stand out in the crowd and proves that he can shine as part of a team. Anthony Edwards stars as Maverick's best friend and co-pilot, Goose, and Meg Ryan first garnered attention as Goose's wife, Carole. Superb state-of-the-art aerial photography makes TOP GUN, directed by Tony Scott, one of the most exciting and entertaining films of its genre. This top grossing movie of 1986 is allegedly based on a Navy fighter pilot program at the Miramar Naval Base in San Diego, California, and was filmed on location at the base. [More]

Starring: Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Anthony Edwards, Val Kilmer

Starring: Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Anthony Edwards, Val Kilmer, Tim Robbins, Meg Ryan, Tom Skerritt, Whip Hubley, Michael Ironside, Rick Rossovich, John Stockwell, Barry Tubb, James Tolkan, Adrian Pasdar, Clarence Gilyard

Director: Tony Scott

Director: Tony Scott
Producer: Jerry Bruckheimer

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May 5, 2009

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Like many films from its decade, Top Gun is steeped in 80s culture %u2013 from the top 40 music to the clothing styles.

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03/05/09
Kevin Carr
7M Pictures

(Its success) supports the pop-psych analysis that pre-actualized teenage boys are the most homosexual beings in existence.

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08/23/08
Walter Chaw
Film Freak Central

A movie for adolescents, and adults who willfully decide not to know better for a couple of hours. [Blu-Ray]

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08/11/08
Peter Canavese
Groucho Reviews

You get about thirty minutes of good movie in Top Gun, and most of that comes at the end.

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09/20/07
John J. Puccio
DVDTown.com

This movie gets worse with time.

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09/24/06
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com

Noisy, slick, and shallow, Tony Scott's MTV-like actioner became emblematic of 1980s blockbusters, reflecting in its macho bravado and cheap elitism the mood of the Reagan era; in the process, it also made Tom Cruise the biggest star of his generation

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08/16/06
Emanuel Levy
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N/R

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06/24/06
Geoff Andrew
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06/30/05
Emanuel Levy
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01/24/05
Greg Maki
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01/14/05
Robin Clifford
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today its legacy is more of a punchline as an analogy for '80s overindulgence in action films and as a vehicle to be freely reinterpreted

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12/11/04
Christopher Null
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09/22/04
James O'Ehley
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thrilling but far too rah-rah

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09/19/04
Rich Cline
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08/25/04
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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02/20/04
Carol Cling
Las Vegas Review-Journal

Once 'Top Gun... gets back to earth, the master of the skies is as clunky as a big land-bound bird.

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05/21/03
Walter Goodman
New York Times
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05/07/03
Rumsey Taylor
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Everything wrong with 80s movies in one film.

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04/24/03
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
N/R

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03/10/03
Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle

Jet piloting is the ultimate gesture not of national defense but of personal style, as if the planes were the ultimate, unfeminizing fashion accessory.

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01/10/03
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