Tony Scott‘s testosterone-fueled movie has all the narrative depth of a music video combined with a military recruitment reel, and it’s become as much of a pop-cultural emblem as 1986’s Top Gun. It’s hard to imagine many more symbolic products of Reagan‘s rah-rah patriotism, with its fervent ode to American uniqueness and triumph over a Cold War foe kept purposefully unclear — after all, who wants to shut off a profitable international market?