Tom Cruise … Maverick
Kelly McGillis … Charlie
Val Kilmer … Ice
Anthony Edwards … Goose
Tom Skerritt … Viper
Michael Ironside … Jester
Tim Robbins … Merlin
Clarence Gilyard Jr. … Sundown
James Tolkan … Stinger
Meg Ryan … Carole
Adrian Pasdar … Chipper
Synopsis: Lt. “Maverick” Mitchell – a slightly maniac F-14 pilot – and his RIO Lt. “Goose” Bradshaw have been accepted into the United States Navy Fighter Weapons School – more commonly known as “Top Gun”. There they will learn the finer arts of aerial dogfighting. That is, if they don’t get thrown out due to Maverick’s behaviour. And the competition is hard, Top Gun accepts only the best pilots to begin with.
My Opinion: This movie has incredible flying scenes even after all these years. No crappy CGI but real planes flying in real air. And a great soundtrack, too. Ironically I haven’t seen that movie that often but I seem to know it by heart due to the many parodies on many scenes of that movie.
And while I recognized Adrian Pasdar (Nathan Petrelli in Heroes) at once, it took me a while to recognize Goose as Dr. Greene from ER.
Too bad, that there aren’t more good airplane combat movies out there.
Howard the Duck (1986)
