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July 06, 2002

Top Gun

Empty macho posturing

Not really worth watching Tom Cruise failing to act in this excuse for 80's boy racers to ogle fast jets dog-fighting.

It didn't ring true to me that the love affair would have happened, Kelly McGinnis would not have fallen for Cruise's character so quickly that she would risk not just her job, but her whole career for him.

The sub-plot about Cruise's father was very weak, obviously an attempt to give Cruise a reason for his moody posturing.

The manufactured confrontation with Russian MIG jets was just too convenient, and of course there were no repercussions from it, and the US gave those ruskies the thrashing they deserved.

Most people will just remember the jets fighting (which are actually pretty good) and the music (which is pretty bad in retrospect)

AE 1

Posted by se71 at July 6, 2002 11:29 AM

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