"I feel the need... the need for speed"
There are a lot of 80's movies that I love and rewatch time and time again so I don't know if I can ever pick an overall favorite, but one of the films high on the list would definitely be 1986's Top Gun.
To describe the plot in any real detail would probably make it sound pretty boring because talking about this character being a United States Naval Aviator, and that one being a Radar Intercept Officer, and so on doesn't make it sound like the fun, high-flying, 80's-tastic, action flick that it is. So, I'll just give anyone who hasn't seen it the short version. Tom Cruise plays Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, a hot-shot and often reckless F-14A Tomcat pilot who, along with his good buddy Nick "Goose" Bradshaw (played by Anthony Edwards), gets sent to attend 'Top Gun' school. Top Gun is where the military's best pilot go for some specialized air combat training, and there is some competition among the students to be the best and win the Top Gun award.
A rivalry immediately develops between Maverick and fellow student/pilot Tom "Iceman" Kazanski (played by Val Kilmer). Maverick also ends up in a romantic relationship with an astrophysicist and civilian Top Gun instructor named Charlotte "Charlie" Blackwood (played by Kelly McGillis). All this, plus a pretty solid soundtrack highlighted by Kenny Loggins' Danger Zone and some cool aerial action scenes, result in a fun and entertaining movie with some memorably chessy quotes.
Overall, I'm not sure that anyone would necessarily call Top Gun a cinematic masterpiece but, it's and enjoyable popcorn movie.
I give it a 4 out of 5.
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