Top Gun

Top Gun

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Rating

3.3 (2)

Release Date

5/16/1986

Runtime

110 mins

Overview

For Lieutenant Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell and his friend and co-pilot Nick 'Goose' Bradshaw, being accepted into an elite training school for fighter pilots is a dream come true. But a tragedy, as well as personal demons, will threaten Pete's dreams of becoming an ace pilot.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$15,000,000

Revenue

$356,830,601

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A slick, high-octane showcase of fighter pilot training and aerial combat that balances its adrenaline with genuine emotional stakes. Maverick chases excellence while wrestling with trauma and self-doubt in an environment where mistakes can be fatal.

Mood

ExhilaratingTenseBittersweetDefiant

Themes

RedemptionAmbitionGriefIdentity

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Propulsive

Look

Stylized genreHigh-contrast

Structure

Linear

Reviews

nicolascagegoons

I've never seen top gun before but I decided to catch a mystery classic at one of my theaters and it was this film.
First of this movie looks amazing. I feel as if drama gets mostly the great looking films while action and also horror films allot of the times look ass.
Not to say most of the movies released in those genre's are ass but there are allot more shitty looking once now.
The action scenes are great but after an hour or so i get pretty tired of the same shaky camera, its realistic sure but it almost gave me a headache.
Maverick himself is a pretty good character and i had fun with goose but other then that the cast is such a bore, val kilmer is good but his character should've been in it more.

stormaciousd

Five stars if it was about beach volleyball.

First time watch; I'm admittedly a few decades late to the party. I did see Top Gun Maverick though. It just never hit my watchlist because no one was ever like "Hey Stormy, I think you'd be super into Top Gun!" and my interest in planes is pretty much limited to The Rehearsal season 2 and that scene in Bridesmaids.

Overall I enjoyed Top Gun more than I expected. The ratio of plane to not-plane worked well for me. I couldn't get invested in the romantic part though. It was just less interesting to me than the other relationships. I don't love saying it, but maybe this should have just been one about the bros.

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