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Top Gun (1986)

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Reviews Counted: 26 Fresh: 11  Rotten:15 Average Rating: 5.3/10

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Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins

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 romances the civilian astrophysics instructor (Kelly McGillis) and competes with... 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]

Genre: Action/Adventure

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

Director: Tony Scott
Producer: Jerry Bruckheimer

DVD Info

Release:

Aug 5, 2008

[DVD Details]
  • Top Gun takes a look at the danger and excitement that awaits every pilot at the Navy's prestigious fighter weapons school. Tom Cruise is superb as Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, a daring young flyer who's out to become the best of the best. And Kelly McGillis sizzles as the civilian instructor who teaches Maverick a few things you can't learn in a classroom.
  • Source - Paramount Home Entertainment
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    6/10

    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
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    This movie gets worse with time.

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    09/24/06
    Cole Smithey
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    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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    Geoff Andrew
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    01/14/05
    Robin Clifford
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    3.5/5

    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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    Philip Martin
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    02/20/04
    Carol Cling
    Las Vegas Review-Journal
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    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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    Walter Goodman
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    Rumsey Taylor
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    Everything wrong with 80s movies in one film.

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    04/24/03
    Ken Hanke
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    03/10/03
    Marjorie Baumgarten
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    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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    11/07/02
    Jeffrey Westhoff
    Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)
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    Loud, silly, stylistic, but carried by Cruise's charisma.

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    10/23/02
    Bob Bloom
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