Is Top Gun actually good?

Top Gun sits in the 42.4% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 42.4% of them.

How does Top Gun compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Top Gun lands in the 40.1% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is Top Gun's score based on?

673 calibrated reviewers stand behind Top Gun's score.

1986

global pct

42.4

Film · 1986 · Films · 1980s

Top Gun

Name: Top Gun
Genre: Action, Drama
Released: 1986

Scored from 673 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

42.4%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

40.1%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

27.3%

AI-adjusted percentile

673 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Hotshot Navy pilot Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell is sent to the elite Top Gun fighter weapons school, where he competes with rival aviator 'Iceman' for the top spot in the class. Between high-stakes dogfight training sessions, Maverick pursues a romance with a civilian instructor and must confront his late father's legacy and his own reckless flying after tragedy strikes.

Top Gun (1986) is a film IMDb files under the action and drama genres.

The calibrated figure is built from 673 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 693 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 21,337 of whom clear the calibration test. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus.