Top Gun Reviews
Top CriticThe dogfights are absolutely the best since Clint Eastwood's electrifying aerial scenes in Firefox. But look out for the scenes where the people talk to one another.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Flipside Movie Emporium
Every time I see it, I just want to smash Tom Cruise's smug, arrogant face into the cockpit windshield.
| Original Score: 1/5
Blu-ray.com
It's still the same old Top Gun, retaining every frame of ridiculousness and emphatic acting that turned the Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer production into a legend.
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| Original Score: C
Antagony & Ecstasy
Basically perfect, even it is perfect at one of the worst sorts of things a movie can attempt.
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| Original Score: 5/10
ColeSmithey.com
This movie gets worse with time.
| Original Score: 2/5
Nick's Flick Picks
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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| Original Score: C
Movie Metropolis
You get about thirty minutes of good movie in Top Gun, and most of that comes at the end.
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| Original Score: 6/10
Groucho Reviews
A movie for adolescents, and adults who willfully decide not to know better for a couple of hours. [Blu-Ray]
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Once 'Top Gun... gets back to earth, the master of the skies is as clunky as a big land-bound bird.
Montreal Film Journal
The only thing that got me through the movie was the hilariously dumb and macho rivalry between Val Kilmer and Tom Cruise.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Everything wrong with 80s movies in one film.
| Original Score: 2/5
EmanuelLevy.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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| Original Score: C
Film Freak Central
(Its success) supports the pop-psych analysis that pre-actualized teenage boys are the most homosexual beings in existence.
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| Original Score: 1/4
Every moment is hyped for maximum visual and visceral impact, but Scott doesn't display the slightest bit of interest (or belief) in the actual characters and situations.
TV Guide's Movie Guide
This paean to hotshot Navy fighter pilots and high technology attracted mass audiences despite its familiar plot and characters so vapid they vanish from memory as soon as the house lights come up.
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| Original Score: 2/4
