TOP GUN (Tony Scott, USA, 1986) 4 V
… and believe me, it’d’ve been lower without climactic dogfight, which at least pulls of the visceral thrills that are all the film even tried for. While I may have known too much about this movie from pop-culture osmosis (this has left me cold for a film as canonized as Chaplin’s THE GOLD RUSH) … I still doubt I’d’ve thought in 1986 that anything in TOP GUN really works.
The action scenes…