The movie could have been perfect, full of good feelings and good will, packed up with action, drama, suspense... Unfortunately the parallel with Top Gun is so obvious that you can't help but making comparisons with Cruise's first blockbuster. Read for yourself: A young bright and talented man (Tom Cruise) wishing to graduate from the elite diving team of the Japanese coast guard (the US Top Gun pilots) undertake a demanding training. Forging himself throughout exercises, he befriend a young man whose good wills are not matched up by his physical condition (a sort of "Goose"). Helping him out, during the training he enters in conflict with another talented but unfriendly trainee (a typical "Iceman"). Until the death of the Japanese "Goose" (yes, in this movie too the poor, gentle but unadapted friend of the hero dies ), the hero will oscillate between resignation and pursuing his quest... You've already guess that he will finally make it through the training, partly thanks to the unraveling of the past history of his supervising officer, he will save the team, become friend with the Iceman... well, nothing new and exciting in other words! There are so many good movies coming out in Japan that I would not recommend people to loose time and money going to see it on the big screen... especially since, following again the Hollywood way of doing, they've made a TV series out of the movie. Actually, it never was more than a TV series to my opinion.
