Top Gun - 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray + Blu-ray

During an encounter with enemy aircraft, fighter pilot Maverick's wingman panics. With almost no fuel left, Maverick manages to help him return to the aircraft carrier. The wingman then resigns, and Maverick takes his place at Top Gun, a school for the very best fighter pilots in the US Navy. This is the start of an exciting adventure with love, humor, and spectacular flying scenes that have gone down in history.

Subtitles

Danish

English

Finnish

Norwegian

Swedish

Sound

English (Dolby Atmos)

English (DTS 5.1 HD MA)

Review

Sound 4/5

Let's start with the most classic element, the soundtrack. In my opinion, this film perfectly reflects the style of the 80s with fantastic tracks such as "Danger Zone" and "Take My Breath Away," not to mention the theme song with its fantastic synth loops. This is nostalgia at its best. Now to the rest of the experience, I can't ask for high-resolution sound effects and deep/low frequencies, but the sound is never bad. It's a wonderful feeling when the jet engines start up and take off from the aircraft carriers, it just brings out the little 10-year-old in me. Thanks in large part to the sound.

Image 4/5

They have managed to remaster the film wonderfully, and it's "only" the Blu-ray edition that was played on my Panasonic ub-820. Sharp, detailed images and details, I can only bow and scrape for this, well done with the film. It may be too well done, I couldn't stop staring at Tom Cruise's front teeth either. Quite comical, but here we see the original teeth, and they were big (I couldn't take my eyes off them). I blame the well-remastered film. Then we can talk about how it's filmed, with fantastic views and scenes, especially from the aircraft carriers, and a lot of beautiful scenes. Then we also have all the dogfights up in the air, and they don't disappoint me at all; they are very well filmed here too, very well done by the sadly deceased Tony Scott.

Sure, there are many limitations to what was possible at the time, and I would argue that these are the best dog-fight scenes ever filmed. probably only newer films have managed to do this better, such as Dunkirk.

Story/Actors 3.5

I won't be too harsh on the actors' performances, as that's how it was in the 80s. For me, it's pretty bad in the 2020s, but to appreciate it, we have to think about how it was back then. I think the "macho guys" did well for themselves, and Val Kilmer was absolutely fantastic. But does it hold up today? Not in my eyes. A bad example from today is Baywatch with The Rock. it would have worked better in the 80s, and that series worked well in the 80s and 90s. Michael Ironside and Tom Skerrit are the ones who give the film its gravitas, and the two of them do a fantastic job and bring a bit of realism to the whole thing.

The story itself is a classic one, I don't know how to describe it better. From this film, one can probably conclude that the stories of "Guardian" (Kevin Costner, Ashton Kutcher) and "Ender's Game" (Harrison Ford) may have originated here. "Ender's Game" is a stretch, I don't really want to mention it, but you can see the similarities.

The story begins at a school/training facility, where the characters experience losses and then sometimes succeed, but come out unscathed, in this case with the country's (USA) best pilots competing against each other.

In summary 3.5/5

I can't give this film 5/5 no matter how much I want to, because it's a fantastic trip down memory lane, the music is wonderful, and the scene where Tom Cruise is in the bar trying to pick up Charlie (Kelly McGillis) is wonderful. We have large jet planes making entrances that one can only dream of. For me, the film is 5/5, but in order to be impartial and dissect the film, you probably have to give it this rating in a realistic way. The film is intense, the story is fairly transparent, you know what's going to happen. The character development is perhaps not the best either. But I'm so happy to see this film every time!

By: Peter F.