Top Gun (1986)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 110m
Director: Tony Scott
Cast: Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer
Synopsis:
US Airforce pilots posture and strut aboard an aircraft carrier and skirmish with Russian MIGs.
Review:
Plotless and irresponsibly jingoistic retread through An Officer and a Gentleman with a cocky new lead. The kind of picture they used to make during wartime, with a maverick leading man whose risk-taking stunts are ultimately vindicated in action; well here he is even nicknamed Maverick and the access to US military equipment granted the production yields some unprecedentedly realistic aerial manoeuvres, all flashily upholstered with a pounding rock score and pop video editing. This was viewed by more American teenagers than any other film in 1986, and one's fears for the country into which they would reach adulthood proved uncannily pertinent (cf. Battle for Haditha, Jarhead, etc.).
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 110m
Director: Tony Scott
Cast: Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer
Synopsis:
US Airforce pilots posture and strut aboard an aircraft carrier and skirmish with Russian MIGs.
Review:
Plotless and irresponsibly jingoistic retread through An Officer and a Gentleman with a cocky new lead. The kind of picture they used to make during wartime, with a maverick leading man whose risk-taking stunts are ultimately vindicated in action; well here he is even nicknamed Maverick and the access to US military equipment granted the production yields some unprecedentedly realistic aerial manoeuvres, all flashily upholstered with a pounding rock score and pop video editing. This was viewed by more American teenagers than any other film in 1986, and one's fears for the country into which they would reach adulthood proved uncannily pertinent (cf. Battle for Haditha, Jarhead, etc.).
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 110m
Director: Tony Scott
Cast: Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer
Synopsis:
US Airforce pilots posture and strut aboard an aircraft carrier and skirmish with Russian MIGs.
Review:
Plotless and irresponsibly jingoistic retread through An Officer and a Gentleman with a cocky new lead. The kind of picture they used to make during wartime, with a maverick leading man whose risk-taking stunts are ultimately vindicated in action; well here he is even nicknamed Maverick and the access to US military equipment granted the production yields some unprecedentedly realistic aerial manoeuvres, all flashily upholstered with a pounding rock score and pop video editing. This was viewed by more American teenagers than any other film in 1986, and one's fears for the country into which they would reach adulthood proved uncannily pertinent (cf. Battle for Haditha, Jarhead, etc.).