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Top Gun (1986)

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Reviews Counted:28

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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,"... 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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06/24/06
Geoff Andrew
Geoff Andrew
Time Out
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thrilling but far too rah-rah

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09/19/04
Rich Cline
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

Top Gun is the type of movie that turns the screen into an altar. Kneeling before its slick façade of 1980s magnificence, you are in the shadow of a film that has defined the modern day action blockbuster.

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01/01/00
Almar Haflidason
Almar Haflidason
BBC
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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 Source: 7M Pictures | comment 1 Comment
03/05/09
Kevin Carr
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
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
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
John J. Puccio
DVDTown.com

This movie gets worse with time.

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09/24/06
Cole Smithey
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
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

No review available.

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01/24/05
Greg Maki
Greg Maki
Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)

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01/14/05
Robin Clifford
Robin Clifford
Reeling Reviews

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
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com

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09/22/04
James O'Ehley
James O'Ehley
Sci-Fi Movie Page

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08/25/04
Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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02/20/04
Carol Cling
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
Walter Goodman
New York Times
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05/07/03
Rumsey Taylor
Rumsey Taylor
Not Coming to a Theater Near You

Everything wrong with 80s movies in one film.

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04/24/03
Ken Hanke
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
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03/10/03
Marjorie Baumgarten
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
Nick Davis
Nick Davis
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