Top Gun Reviews

I already saw this movie but since it was a while back, I was quite eager to check it out again. Well, first of all, I was actually surprised by how little I actually remembered it and, on top of that, I have to admit that, this time around, it turned out to be actually fairly entertaining. I mean, even though it is a huge classic from the 80's, I'm still not a huge fan but I think I was at first too harsh. It is also funny that the only thing I did remember were the impressive dogfight scenes but, in fact, I was also surprised by the fact that there were only a few of them after all. In fact, it turned out that at least half of the movie was about the romance between Maverick and his instructor. So, basically, it is an action flick mixed with a fairly generic romance. Eventually, what actually impressed the most was to see a young Tom Cruise in his breakthrough performance. Indeed, even if it was hardly his best work, the guy was just really charismatic and it was also quite neat to see the similarities between Maverick and himself. Basically, Maverick wanted to be the best pilot and to rule the sky and Tom Cruise wanted to be the biggest movie star and to rule the box-office (which he did for a very long time) and Cruise was actually a perfect choice to play this character. Anyway, to conclude, I'm glad it a second chance and even it still might not be a masterpiece, it is actually quite entertaining and it is definitely worth a look.

Amazing '80s soundtrack, perfectly stylized scenes, and very interesting characters with some creative nicknames. This is an amazing movie!

Nice, not great; as exciting as many other Navy/Airforce movies. This probably was the very first movie of the kind and it's unfair that I got to see it AFTER all those that came later, cause now this looks like 'the same old stuff', while in fact it's the one that started it all :P

This is probably *the* plane movie to watch, simply because of the impressive flight scenes.

Yes, Tom Cruise and Kelly McGillis are also good reasons to watch the film, especially considering Cruise’s performance here, which turned him into a megastar.

A hit soundtrack and young actors (Meg Ryan, Val Kilmer, Anthony Edwards, Tim Robbins, Adrian Pasdar) are worth mentioning.