Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
2022
PG-13
131 Minutes
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 detachm...
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Like most 80s action blockbusters, Tony Scott’s Top Gun was a clichéd, hammy display of masculinity and sentimentality. A selfish, preening, muscly fighter pilot becomes a selfless, preening, muscly fighter pilot after stroking some planes, bedding a girl and then having a short crisis of conscience after his best mate Goose dies.
Being a contemporary blockbuster, you might imagine that the new legacy sequel Top Gun: Maverick would deconstruct that in some way. But, beyond a couple of references to Maverick being a dinosaur and a few more winks to the audience to acknowledge how silly everything is, the film ultimately treats its character drama in almost exactly the same way as the original did.
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