Top Gun
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: May 16, 1986 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
51
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Mixed or average reviews based on 16 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
7
Negative:
2
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80
EmpireAdam Smith
Top Gun is not so much a movie in the conventional sense as an escalating series of masterfully crafted adverts: motorcycles, aircraft carriers, pectorals and planes all look as if they’ve been shot for a particularly luminous beer campaign. Read full review
80
VarietyStaff (Not Credited)
Set in the world of naval fighter pilots, pic has strong visuals and pretty young people in stylish clothes and a non-stop soundtrack. Read full review
80
The GuardianPeter Bradshaw
It’s all very silly, though it’s impossible not to feel some affection for this film: Cruise’s pure, strenuous earnestness, the disconcerting laser focus of his stare, and the video-game combat sequences with the MiGs – the words “Soviet” or “Russian” aren’t mentioned. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyChris Nashawaty
Top Gun has always been more than just an action flick about a cocky young fighter pilot who feels the need for speed. Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneGene Siskel
No doubt about it: Top Gun is going to be the hit that "The Right Stuff" should have been. They are not in the same class of films, but this much must be said: The aerial sequences in Top Gun are as thrilling -- while remaining coherent -- as any ever put on film. Read full review
63
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
This is a movie that comes in two parts: It knows exactly what to do with special effects, but doesn't have a clue as to how two people in love might act and talk and think. Read full review
63
New York Daily NewsKathleen Carroll
The flight sequences in “Top Gun” may arouse aerial buffs. Still, this movie approaches its subject in such juvenile, superficial way that it’s clear the producers were merely in a hurry to cash in on Hollywood’s new wave of Rambo-style patriotism. Read full review
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