Even as nostalgic schmaltz this is a TERRIBLE film. It trades enormously on Top Gun, which has not stood the test of time, whilst also drawing the worst elements of other film tropes in - Star Wars (wamprats/ Deathstar), Dambuaters, Independence Day anyone? - but adds nothing new. Tom Cruise is... Tom Cruise, and, yes, has a little running scene. Everyone else is reduced to a sub-Battleship cypher - and that was based on a boardgame ffs. The only memorable element is a truly awful moustache, and even that is a copy... I don't mind bad action films (I've seen the aforementioned Independence Day and the follow up multiple times and enjoyed them, even when sober) but I don't think that applies here...

Giving this 3 stars, most of those are for Val Kilmet, and the rest are to provide royalties for the 80a.