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Top Gun [Blu-ray]

Tom Cruise (Actor), Kelly McGillis (Actor), Tony Scott (Director) | Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) | Format: Blu-ray
4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (212 customer reviews)

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Jingoism, beefcake, military hardware, and a Giorgio Moroder rock score reign supreme over taste and logic in this Tony Scott film about a maverick trainee pilot (Tom Cruise) who can't follow the rules at a Navy aviation training facility. The dogfight sequences between American and Soviet jets at the end are absolutely mechanical, though audiences loved it at the time. The love story between Cruise's character and that of Kelly McGillis is like flipping through pages of advertising in a glossy magazine. This designer action movie from 1986 would be all the more appalling were it not for the canny casting of good actors in dumb parts. Standouts include Anthony Edwards--who makes a nice impression as Cruise's average-Joe pal--and the relatively unknown Meg Ryan in a small but memorable appearance. --Tom Keogh

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5.0 out of 5 stars Top Gun, April 17 2012
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Gary Peddle (Montreal, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Top Gun [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)
One of my all time favourites even better in Blu-ray!
I am anxious to see even more of my favourites in Blu-Ray!
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2.0 out of 5 stars Prop Gun, April 28 2000
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This review is from: Top Gun (VHS Tape)
We've seen it all a million times: Maverick and his buddies, fueled by Reagan-era geopolitics, knocking the Soviet fighters out of the sky; Maverick wearing his shades while riding his bike without a helmet (racing a jet fighter no less). Slick, explosive and full of MTV moments, "Top Gun" is the epitome of 80's movie-making. It's also one of the clearest exercises in plastic filmmaking I've ever seen.

In the midst of its 1986 release, the only thing missing from the hoopla surrounding "Top Gun" was any reference to the film's message. The reason is simple: there isn't one. In its place are instantly memorable images that clearly fit the recipe for success repeatedly concocted by producers Jerry Bruckheimer and the late Don Simpson.

In fact, "Top Gun" is little else behind a potpourri of slick shots of fast jets and good-looking people. Quentin Tarantino's now classic dissection of it as an introspective study of a man's struggle to come to terms with his own homosexuality gives too much credit to this overproduced and overhyped vacuum of a movie. Tony Scott, who has repeatedly shown that he can make above average Hollywood fare (e.g., "True Romance," "Crimson Tide"), fails to give the story any depth whatsoever. This becomes painfully evident when "Top Gun" unloads its inept attempts at getting us to identify with Maverick's "struggle" via the supposedly moving guitar theme and references to his relationship with his father. Heck, I didn't buy it when I was 13, much less now at 26. Then again, it figures that, being a man, I was immune to the movie's "Tiger Beat" factor, which I can only imagine would help account for its success.

Which brings me to the actors. I would give "Top Gun" only one star, but I would like to credit the casting director with assembling a first-rate ensemble, including Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Anthony Edwards, Meg Ryan, Val Kilmer and Tom Skerritt. Sadly, they are ill-served by roles that could easily be played by William Shatner in all his hammy majesty. It's like putting together a team of top painters to do a color by numbers book.

The incredible preponderence of style over substance thus permeates the whole movie and, as a reference point, is eerily prescient of Joel Schumacher's 1990's oeuvre. Thankfully, the talent involved in this overlong commercial would eventually go on to do projects far more worthy of their abilities.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Mind-Numbingly dumb, April 16 2000
This review is from: Top Gun (Widescreen/Full Screen) (DVD)
Someone down the line said this is a movie for people"into aircraft and dogfights." If anything, it's foreveryone else. All of the dogfights in this movie are completely contrived and utterly preposterous. The action sequences are predictable and boring the first time, irritating the second, and disgusting the third.

The drama? What drama? All this movie contains are a few annoying one-liners, some ... 80s-qua-80s music, a pseudo-Romance, and a Tom Cruise who is playing impeccably himself. That is to say, he's doing absolutely nothing for the part.

Which might not neccessarily be bad. I'm not sure if there's anything that can be done with the plot. It's pathetic and boring from start to finish, a few arrogant two-bits strapped into paper-mache F-14s doing impossible tricks and fighting lame enemies.

Yawn!

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