Top Gun

critic Reviews

, 59% Rotten Tomatometer Score
  • Though it features some of the most memorable and electrifying aerial footage shot with an expert eye for action, Top Gun offers too little for non-adolescent viewers to chew on when its characters aren't in the air.
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    Pauline KaelThe New Yorker
    Top Gun is a recruiting poster that isn’t concerned with recruiting but with being a poster.
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    Peter RainerLos Angeles Herald Examiner
    Too bad the entire movie wasn’t airborne; whenever the story touches down, it falls apart in the hand like thousand-year-old parchment.
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    Adam NaymanThe Ringer
    Stupid brilliance...
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    Harper BarnesSt. Louis Post-Dispatch
    If you like airplane movies, Top Gun is about one-third of a dazzler, and the rest is at least watchable.
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    Duane ByrgeThe Hollywood Reporter
    The film's intensity mirrors the competitive and wild personalities of the pilots themselves. In this arena, the casting is on-target.
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    Kathleen CarrollNew York Daily News
    ... "Top Gun" is terribly monotonous.
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    Dan WebsterSpokesman-Review (Washington)
    The musk-heavy performances by Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer... the charm of Anthony Edwards and the film-savvy of director Tony Scott manage to make this traditionally minded film something more than just your average Neo-Patriotic thriller.
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    Zoë Rose BryantLoud and Clear Reviews
    Top Gun is a star-studded and visually stimulating sensation that succeeds splendidly as a big-screen spectacle thanks to Tony Scott’s distinguished direction and the charisma of its charming cast (most notably the transcendent Tom Cruise).
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    Rosa ParraLatinx Lens
    Memorable soundtrack and an overall premise that still holds today. A film that works towards a general audience thanks to its action sequences.
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    Cory Woodroof615 Film
    As the kids say, “it’s a vibe.”
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