In one of the more memorable lines in the original Top Gun, Maverick gets chewed out by a superior who tells him, "Son, your ego's writing checks your body can't cash." Sometimes I wonder if Tom Cruise took that putdown as a personal challenge. No movie star seems to work harder or push himself further than Cruise these days. Ridiculously entertaining Top Gun: Maverick. Cruise was in his early 20s when he first played Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, the cocky young Navy pilot with the aviator sunglasses, the Kawasaki motorcycle and the need for speed. In the sequel, he's as arrogant and insubordinate as ever: Now a Navy test pilot in his late 50s, Maverick still knows how to tick off his superiors, as we see in an exciting opening sequence where he pushes a new plane beyond its limits. Partly as punishment, he's ordered to return to TOPGUN, the elite pilot-training school, and train its best and brightest for an impossibly dangerous new mission. And so the three screenwriters of Top Gun: Maverick - including Cruise's regular Mission: Impossible writer-director, Christopher McQuarrie - have taken the threads of the original and spun them into an intergenerational male weepie, a dad movie of truly epic proportions. They're tapping into nostalgia for the original, while aiming for new levels of emotional grandeur. To that end, the soundtrack features a Lady Gaga song, "Hold My Hand." It's nowhere near as iconic a chart topper as the original movie's "Take My Breath Away," but tugs at your heartstrings nonetheless. The action sequences are much more thrilling and immersive than in the original. You feel like you're really in the cockpit with these pilots, and that's because you are: The actors underwent intense flight training and flew actual planes during shooting. In that respect, Top Gun: Maverick feels like a throwback to a lost era of practical moviemaking, before computer-generated visual effects took over Hollywood. You start to understand why Cruise, the creative force behind the movie, was so driven to make it: In telling a story where older and younger pilots butt heads, and state-of-the-art F-18s duke it out with rusty old F-14s, he's trying to show us that there's room for the old and the new to coexist. He's also advancing a case for the enduring appeal of the movies and their power to transport us with viscerally gripping action and big, sweeping emotions.
Plot summary
Set 30 years after its predecessor, it follows Maverick's return to the United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor program (also known as U.S. Navy-Fighter Weapons School - "TOPGUN"), where he must confront his past as he trains a group of younger pilots, among them the son of Maverick's deceased best friend Lieutenant Nick "Goose" Bradshaw, USN.
August 29, 2022 at 11:27 AM
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Best Sequel yet
The truly epic blockbuster we needed.
Wow. The first Top Gun is a classic, and as we all know, sequels/remakes rarely beat the original, especially 36 years later e.g. The Matrix Resurrections. Well, this film just broke that theory.
Aside from the adrenaline-pumping edge or your seat action, this story also had heart. It successfully overachieves, and surpasses its predecessor on every level.
The directing by novice Joseph Kosinski was outstanding, especially considering this was his fourth ever full length feature film. All the stunts, visuals and V/SFX were breathtaking, and the camera work perfection, that you'll feel you're in the cockpit of the jet. The soundtrack and score was amazing. The 131 min runtime literally flew by with its spot-on pacing. I actually wanted to see more. Casting and performances by all were also perfection, and once again Tom Cruise reminds us why he is still one of the top actors in the industry.
There's nothing I can critique or wish was better, as this gem was perfect in every way. Absolutely stunning, action-packed with a compelling and emotional story, as well as being a visual masterpiece. And the fact the dog fights were real and not CGI (actors had to train to fly the jets), just makes this film that much more magnificent. I'll be definitely seeing this again and adding the DVD to my collection. It's a rare perfect 10/10 must see from me.
This is slightly different to the other reviews, please stay with me here.
If you were a late teen or in your early twenties in the mid 1980's the world was very different. No computers, no mobile phones, no internet, no DVD's. We had cars though, and bikes, and we loved them, and we loved films too. The original Top Gun captured this moment in time perfectly, and gave us a thrilling ride like we had never seen before. The humour, the games, the bikes, the aircraft and my word, those flying scenes. We went back to the cinema to see it again and again, and spent the following decades quoting the movie. As time went on, it remained like a static snapshot in time to perfectly represent that magical point in our lives for so many of us.
Now, 36 years later, we are a generation that has lost our parents, we've had our own children who have moved on themselves, and we now approach the end of our own careers and our young selves are gone forever.
This film is the missing bookend to that whole generation. The original was there for the start of our young adult lives, and this new film now marks the end. It's magnificent.
I'm 55, but yesterday, just for one last night, I was 19 again. Thank you.
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4K Blu-ray...
It's okay. I mean, it's really not one of the best movies. It's like a boy-scout movie. I would rate it like 4/10, not more. I skipped big parts of the movie.
Should have made Tom Brady as the Top Gun.
The Torrent is not Woking
Great freaking movie. please do not listen to the geniuses here all those GenZ's has 0 braincells to say this movie ain't worth your time. This is one of the best movies you will ever see hands down
4k not working properly come on fix pls
this movie rips off star wars
This movie is the James Cameron's Avtar (2009) of this generation. Basically a movie that is a complete 10/10 masterpiece if you get to see it in theaters, but when you watch it at home, you'd be like: "that's it? well that was overrated, I'd score it 6/10." because the movie magic isnt there anymore. Films like this are why cinemas should be kept alive.
Thank you FREEMAN!!
it turns at the end to Behind Enemy Lines 2001 :D
If that is the only reason you voted for the fool, you are the fool. So happy to be an Expat..NOT paying taxes to those woke criminals.
What weight are glasses on Bob's face when 10G happens? Tom Cruise walks hiddenly on airfield like he did it in Kremlin in Mission impossible :) Funny. PS: what happens with boobs on 10G?...
I watched This movie. Really it was a great movie. Tom Cruise, you are awesome. P.R 8.5/10
Thank you!
loved the movie.
10/10 moview! Yung 10K din from Cayetano iniintay namin eh.
I still hope that the promise of 10k per family will be given
al fin una version donde que no tiene subtitulos en ckoreano
Best movie ever!!!!!
What a great movie!!!
thanks freeman.. :)
Tom Cruise is a god....Ages like wine and Kicks like a jedi
10 out of 10 nothing to say anymore
YOU CAN REMOVE THE KOREAN SUBTITLES USING HANDBRAKE
the monster 1994 please
How about we lose the chinese subtitles
Thanks, FREEMAN! Much appreciated!... The movie was 10/10!
Thor Love and Thunder will be release on digital on september 8 .for dvd,bluray sept 27.hope no asiahardsubs again
Tom Flies B1 Bomber to space to meet with Aliens and broker a deal with them to star in a future 100 years of movies with him as the star.
@Bothal3 there is a tv series site, go to 'home page' go to the bottom of the page and click EZTV it will take you to the site needed..