Reviews

This is close to an ideal way to experience the movie, as you excise much of the DOA romance between Cruise and Kelly McGillis and instead are treated to a series of flight sequences, dick swinging (not literal, although it might as well be) and pensive brooding, the movie distilled to its essen...

I thought the only weak part of the last act where Maverick feels guilty over himself is how Charlie reacts to it.

Re-watching Top Gun, I can confirm that Ice Man still is the coolest character and one I would have loved to follow him a bit more than Maverick.

You get a rivalry between the impulsive and reckless Maverick (Tom Cruise) and the fly by the book, top ace, Ice Man (Val Kilmer).

There is a story there to an extent, Maverick's father being a Top Gun with Maverick feeling pressure to be like him, the love story thrown in for Maverick and some tragedy to keep the viewer fixed to the screen.