Review – Top Gun

Here’s a fun game: try and count all the veiled homosexual allusions in this film while you’re watching it. While I didn’t actually keep count, I imagine that the final tally would probably exceed the number of times the word “bondage” appears in Cecil B. DeMille’s The Ten Commandments (and that’s saying something). Guys, you’re among friends and supporters. It’s okay to go ahead and come out of the closet. Though properly considered a Tom Cruise vehicle, the diminutive (watch his scenes with Kelly McGillis and try to figure out what he’s standing on to make him look taller than she is) hunk is backed up by such intense young actors as Val Kilmer, Anthony Edwards, and an odd bit part played by uber-liberal Tim Robbins. Back in the heady days of the Reagan era this was quite an ad for the Navy, though with a little more experience under our belts we can now look back on most of director Tony Scott’s flag-waving, MTV-edited spectacle as more than a little silly. Mildly amusing