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Top Gun

1986

Tony Scott

Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Tom Skerritt, Anthony Edwards ...

5.8

85,645

Action. Drama. Romance 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 ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Rita Kempley The Washington Post	"Top Gun is basically 'An Officer and a Gentleman' with less spirit and depth. But it's still fine formula movie"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"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)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Adam Smith Empire	"Not exactly a cinema classic but it has not only become a cultural icon but remains infinitely rewatchable (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Pauline Kael The New Yorker	"'Top Gun' is a recruiting poster that isn’t concerned with recruiting but with being a poster."	NEG
United States	Michael Wilmington Los Angeles Times	"'Top Gun' is a male bonding adventure movie that's both exciting and disturbing, mind-boggling and vacuous"	NEU
United States	Duane Byrge The Hollywood Reporter	"The film's intensity mirrors the competitive and wild personalities of the pilots themselves. In this arena, the casting is on-target."	POS
United States	Kathleen Carroll New York Daily News	"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."	NEG
United States	Chris Nashawaty Entertainment Weekly	"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"	POS
United States	David Ansen Newsweek	"For all its reliance on old movie cliches, 'Top Gun' is devoid of a strong dramatic line. It's a disjointed movie about flying school bracketed by two arbitrary action sequences"	NEG
United States	Gene Siskel Chicago Tribune	"The aerial sequences in 'Top Gun' are as thrilling -- while remaining coherent -- as any ever put on film."	POS
United States	Walter Goodman The New York Times	"The excitement is switched off on landing. Once Top Gun, which opens today at Loews Astor Plaza and other theaters, gets back to earth, the master of the skies is as clunky as a big land-bound bird."	NEU
United States	Variety Staff Variety	"Set in the world of naval fighter pilots, pic has strong visuals and pretty young people in stylish clothes and a non-stop soundtrack."	POS
United States	James Berardinelli ReelViews	"Embraces masculine tropes to create a patchwork narrative that is almost laughably bad but whose fetishization of high-tech hardware makes the cheesiness of the story seem irrelevant."	NEU
United Kingdom	Almar Haflidason BBC	"'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."	POS

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