Top Gun: Maverick
After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell finds himself training a detachment of TOP GUN graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen.
May 21, 2022 · Directed by Joseph Kosinski
What's been said
Viewers and critics greeted Top Gun: Maverick with overwhelming enthusiasm, with journalists at its first public screening hailing it as 'the perfect blockbuster' and 'terrific in every conceivable way,' while audience reviews across IMDb, Metacritic, and Rotten Tomatoes were similarly effusive. The near-unanimous highlight was the aerial action: critics and viewers alike singled out the practical, in-cockpit photography and gravity-defying dogfight sequences as exhilarating and unlike anything seen before, with many urging audiences to see it on the largest screen possible. The most common complaint was a predictable, formulaic story that mirrors the structure of the original film too closely, with thin character development and ground-level scenes that feel hollow compared to the airborne thrills. Notably, several reviewers pointed out that the film works even for viewers who had no nostalgia for the 1986 original, with some calling it a rare case where the sequel outright surpasses its predecessor.
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