Top Gun - 30th Anniversary Blu-ray

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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Leading a phenomenal cast including Val Kilmer Kelly Mc Gillis Anthony Edwards Meg Ryan & Tim Robbins Tom Cruise soars as Maverick the young in-your-face US fighter pilot with a need for speed a lot to prove & even more to learn Forever ranking with the best action films of all time Top Gun remains a high-octane adrenaline rush certain to take your breath away Days of Thunder With Days of Thunder director Tony Scott tried to do for the Indy 500 what he did for the US Air Force with Top Gun But without Top Gun&s go-go soundtrack & visual feats Scott merely ends up with a Tom Cruise vehicle that&s out of gas Cruise plays (what else?) a cocky upstart stock-car racer who faces down ruthless racing opponents Nicole Kidman Robert Duvall Cary Elwes & Randy Quaid do the laps around this movie&s tiresome track with Cruise while director Scott attempts to propel the action along with his trademark visceral gritty but glamourous visual style Days of Thunder is notable however as a turning point in Cruise&s then one-dimensional career After this film--having tired even his most devoted fans by playing a bartender an air force pilot & a stock-car driver--Cruise was forced to take on real character parts --Ethan Brown Top Gun Jingoism beefcake military hardware & a Giorgio Moroder rock score reign supreme over taste & logic in this Tony Scott film about a maverick trainee pilot (Tom Cruise) who can&t follow the rules at a Navy aviation training facility The dogfight sequences between American & Soviet jets at the end are absolutely mechanical though audiences loved it at the time The love story between Cruise&s character & that of Kelly Mc Gillis is like flipping through pages of advertising in a glossy magazine This designer action movie from 1986 would be all the more appalling were it not for the canny casting of good actors in dumb parts Standouts include Anthony Edwards--who makes a nice impression as Cruise&s average-Joe pal--and the relatively unknown Meg Ryan in a small but memorable appearance --Tom Keogh --This text refers to an alternate Blu-ray edition