Top Gun (1986)
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Reviews Counted:28
Fresh:12
Rotten:16
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,"... [More]
Starring: Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Anthony Edwards, Val Kilmer
Director: Tony Scott
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Reviews for Top Gun
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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. Full Review |
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(Its success) supports the pop-psych analysis that pre-actualized teenage boys are the most homosexual beings in existence. Full Review |
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A movie for adolescents, and adults who willfully decide not to know better for a couple of hours. [Blu-Ray] Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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2/5 |
This movie gets worse with time.
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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 Full Review |
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3/5 |
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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 Full Review |
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3/5 |
thrilling but far too rah-rah
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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. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Everything wrong with 80s movies in one film.
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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. Full Review |
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