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.
- , Rotten Tomatometer ScorePauline KaelThe New Yorker
Top Gun is a recruiting poster that isn’t concerned with recruiting but with being a poster.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScorePeter 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.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreAdam NaymanThe Ringer
Stupid brilliance...
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreHarper 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.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreDuane 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.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreKathleen CarrollNew York Daily News
... "Top Gun" is terribly monotonous.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreDan 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.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreZoë 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).
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreRosa 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.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreCory Woodroof615 Film
As the kids say, “it’s a vibe.”
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