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Top Gun

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Top Gun: Maverick

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Original title

Top Gun

Year

1986

Running time

110 min.

Country

United States

Director

Tony Scott

Screenwriter

Jim Cash, Jack Epps Jr.

Cast

Music

Harold Faltermeyer. Song: Berlin

Cinematography

Jeffrey L. Kimball

Producer

Paramount Pictures, Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films

Genre

Action. Drama. Romance | Romantic Drama. Planes. Army

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Top Gun

Synopsis

Maverick (Tom Cruise) is a reckless F-14 pilot who flies by instinct and breaks all 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.

Awards: 1986: Oscar: Best Original Song. 4 Nominations

1986: Golden Globes Awards: Best Original Song. 2 nominations

1988: Premios de la Academia Japonesa: nominated to Best Foreign Language Film.

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Critics' reviews

"Top Gun is basically 'An Officer and a Gentleman' with less spirit and depth. But it's still fine formula movie"

Rita Kempley: The Washington Post
"Movies like 'Top Gun' are hard to review because the good parts are so good and the bad parts are so relentless (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"

Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times
"'Top Gun' is a recruiting poster that isn’t concerned with recruiting but with being a poster."

Pauline Kael: The New Yorker
"'Top Gun' is a male bonding adventure movie that's both exciting and disturbing, mind-boggling and vacuous"

Michael Wilmington: Los Angeles Times
"The film's intensity mirrors the competitive and wild personalities of the pilots themselves. In this arena, the casting is on-target."

Duane Byrge: The Hollywood Reporter
"This movie approaches its subject in such juvenile, superficial way that it’s clear the producers were merely in a hurry to cash in on Hollywood’s new wave of Rambo-style patriotism."

Kathleen Carroll: New York Daily News
"Whether you love Top Gun or hate it — or hate yourself for loving it — the fact is that when it became the top-grossing film of 1986"

Chris Nashawaty: Entertainment Weekly
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