Top Gun

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Year:	1986
Country of origin:	USA
Director:	Tony Scott
Genre:	My plane's faster than your plane.
Starring:	Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer, Anthony Edwards, Tom Skerritt, Michael Ironside
Rating:	4/5
IMDB link:	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092099/
Tagline:	I feel the need, the need for speed.
Favourite line:	"Mustang, this is Voodoo 3. Remaining MiGs are bugging out."

There are certain movies that, as a film fan, you feel obliged to watch.
Having survived thirty four clean years on this Earth, the day I would have to pollute my existence with Top Gun had been looming for manies the day.
But fear I should not.
Whilst every instinct I possess suggested I would hate this movie, in every conceivable way, what I instead witnessed was a gad-about boys movie, with the addition of a crowbarred in sex scene (featuring Tom's writhing tongue, gasp the gay commuinity / women (delete as appropriate)) and a whole lot of high adrenaline 'plane porno.
Bruise is in full on 'boy next door with gorgeous eyes and dazzling smile' mode, whilst the plot and script are about as convincing as that home movie I made when I was 15 showcasing my talents as the UK's answer to John Holmes.
Whilst there are many reasons to despise the existence of this film: Val Kilmer as The Ice Man, the woeful dialogue, the uber-American attitude (yo, man, we fly fast enough, we'll show those Ruskies) still I was unable to not enjoy not enjoying it. Not.
Count those fucking negative un-negatives, then high five me whilst I get covered in oil by a beautiful boy wearing nothing but a towel, you homo-erotic genius, you.
Special mention must be made of the fabulous theme music by Giorgio Moroder, which adds a touch of class to an otherwise moribund spectacle in that regard, though he was also responsible for the lamentably awful Take My Breath Away, used as backing to the Tom Tongue sequence, for which, almost unforgivably, he won an Oscar.
Mixed, then.....