The movie might be showing its age, or maybe I'm showing mine. The structure just felt off. The pacing was much too slow until the last quarter. There's something grating about Maverick's character—there's supposed to be, but I couldn't really find anything to like about him. And of course the romance is entirely unnecessary, but that's been a Hollywood problem since long before this movie (and still is).

This film was ok I guess but I just found it to be overwhelmingly boring. For an action it just seemed to have absolutely nothing going for it. I rated it slightly higher than I was originally going to because I must take into account the year it was released and the impact it must have had back then but still it could have been better.

I read a few reviews and in my opinion some people are way off. This is by far one of the best movies I've ever seen. Yes the soundtrack is a little repetitive and yes it's slow in the beginning, BUT THATS HOW YOU SET UP A STORY. Fantastic characters and storyline. Brilliant casting and acting from just about everyone. I could write for days about this film and the emotions it gave me but I'll just say I was born 18 years after this film released and despite growing up in the superhero film era with laziness like Kong vs Godzilla and Matrix 4, I can see that those are terrible films and this one is TOP GUN baby

Top Gun is a movie that is full of cliché with a plot that follows along the lines of a blueprint that is typical for similar movies of that time. It was a movie for the MTV generation with lots of rock music. This wasn´t about the story. Teenage boys wanted to be Maverick and the girls fancied the love story (OK, probably not all of them but a lot) It still can be an entertaining movie today if you keep that in mind. Just tune down the cheesy stuff. Enjoy the flight scenes, the soundtrack is still great and produced a lot of classic tunes.

Didn't work for me. The plot is non-existent, the music is annoyingly repetitive and oftentimes oddly placed, and the entire movie rides on Tom Cruise's shoulders. I genuinely liked Goose more than Maverick and thought Maverick was kind of an awful guy beginning to end. Yet again, a movie I was told is a "must-see" disappoints. Maybe it's just not my cup of tea.