Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10531 in DVD
• Released on: 2008-01-01
• Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: PAL, DTS Surround Sound, Widescreen, Surround Sound, Anamorphic
• Original language: English, German
• Number of discs: 2
• Running time: 105 minutes

Synopsis
Maverick (Tom Cruise) is a reckless F-14 pilot who flies by instinct and breaks all of the rules. While attending the Navy's elite air combat training academy, affectionately known as 'Top Gun', Maverick romances the civilian astrophysics instructor (Kelly McGillis) and competes with crackerjack pilot Ice (Val Kilmer) for top honours. He is the quintessential rebel, upsetting senior officers with his antics and risk-taking while simultaneously amazing them with his skill. In the end, Maverick overcomes a tragic loss and his need to stand out in the crowd and proves that he can shine as part of a team. Anthony Edwards stars as Maverick's best friend and co-pilot, Goose, and Meg Ryan first garnered attention as Goose's wife, Carole. Superb state-of-the-art aerial photography makes TOP GUN, directed by Tony Scott, one of the most exciting and entertaining films of its genre. This top grossing movie of 1986 is allegedly based on a Navy fighter pilot program at the Miramar Naval Base in San Diego, California, and was filmed on location at the base.

Customer Reviews

Classic
Most people will have seen this film. One of the Eighties biggest movies and the one that sent Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer on to Hollywood stardom.
Its a brilliant film with really great action scenes.
Kelly McGillis manages to pull off her role brilliantly and both Cruise and Kilmer made their name forom this movie.
If you havnt seen it then buy it and enjoy. It walks all over Pearl Harbour in terms on action scenes.

Not Goose! Get Cruise!
Why on earth this film is so popular I don't know. The bits with the planes are irrelevant and overlong. The story is shoe horned into places it shouldn't go, such as the 'sexy' teacher falling for the little 'maverick' pilot. The dead Goose scene should have been swapped for the dead Cruise scene for greater impact. The film would have been better balanced with Anthony Edwards (a proper actor) versus the Iceman Val Kilmer as they are of similar height, as it is we have the David and Goliath situation where yet again, against insurmountable odds, Tom comes up trumps. Note again the bigness of the face incomparison to the smallness of the planes, a common theme in Cruise films. I hope Tom Cruise makes a film where he is not in it all the way through, and learns how to pretend better, other actors do a far better job of convincing me they are someone else, but he doesn't. He can't act for toffee, but he seems well able to pretend badly and make loads of money! The world is wrong. Avoid this film, for planes in action check out Pearl Harbour instead.