Top Gun Maverick Review: Will This Stuff Work Still?

Katy Williams
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Joseph Kosinski is the director of the 2022 American action movie Top Gun: Maverick. It was written by Ehren Kruger, Eric Warren Singer, and Christopher McQuarrie based on a story by Peter Craig and Justin Marks and is the follow-up to the 1986 blockbuster Top Gun. Along with Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, and Ed Harris, the movie also stars Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer in their respective roles from the first movie.

The story centers on Maverick as he confronts his history while preparing a squad of recent TOPGUN graduates—including the son of his late closest friend—for a perilous mission.

Plot

United States Navy Captain Pete “Maverick” Mitchell is a test pilot, more than 30 years after earning his degree from TOPGUN[b]. Although he has received many awards, his persistent disobedience has prevented him from reaching flag rank. [c] The commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, Admiral Tom “Iceman” Kazansky, who is also his buddy and a former TOPGUN foe, frequently guards Maverick against being grounded.

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In favor of supporting drones, Rear Admiral Chester “Hammer” Cain stops Maverick’s “Darkstar” scramjet program. Maverick creates a new flight plan to push into the high hypersonic speed before Cain can officially do so, achieving the program’s objective. However, when Maverick exceeds Mach 10, the prototype is destroyed. When Iceman sends Maverick to NAS North Island for his next assignment, he once more protects Maverick’s career, but Hammer cautions Maverick that the age of crewed fighter planes is quickly coming to an end.

Cast

top gun maverick review
  • Tom Cruise trains a squad of Top Gun grads for a particular mission as CAPT Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, a test pilot and flight instructor.
  • The ADM is Val Kilmer Maverick’s longtime friend and former opponent, Tom “Iceman” Kazansky, who is the commander of the United States Pacific Fleet.
  • LT Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw, a mission training group F/A-18E pilot, is played by Miles Teller. The late LTJG Nick “Goose,” Maverick’s RIO and closest friend, and Carole Bradshaw are his parents. Aaron and Adam Weis, twins, previously played Rooster in Top Gun in uncredited roles.
  • As Penelope, Jennifer Connelly The daughter of an admiral and a single mother named “Penny” Benjamin is Maverick’s reignited love interest.
  • As a VADM, Jon Hamm Commander of Naval Air Forces Beau “Cyclone” Simpson

Top Gun Maverick Review

Pete Mitchell, who plays Maverick in “Top Gun: Maverick,” is occasionally called into an admiral’s office for a face-to-face meeting. Pete, who has served in the Navy for more than 35 years, but who’s counting, is stuck at the captain level. Although Maverick is among the best fighter pilots to ever take to the skies, he is anything but a politician, and the American military hierarchy can be a perilous political game. He is likely to salute, smirk, and push his career into the center of the table like a stack of poker chips when an upper-level officer is present. He’s all in. Always.

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The first encounter is with Rear Adm. Chester Cain, an aged piece of brass played by Ed Harris and possessing a commendable track record of flight in motion pictures. (Top Gun wouldn’t have existed without “The Right Stuff”). It appears like he is informing Pete that the game is ended. Flyboys like his are largely unnecessary in the age of modern technology.

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Based on this sequence, you may assume that the film intends to be a reflection on American air power in the age of drone warfare, but that will have to wait for the next sequel. Pete is still working. Officially, I work as a teacher, but we’ll get to that. Not so much a red herring as a meta-commentary, the dialogue with Cain is. The main question addressed by this film has less to do with the necessity of combat pilots and more to do with the importance of movie stars.

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Pete is Tom Cruise’s avatar, as I’m sure I don’t need to remind you. Do we really need men or movies like this in this day and age of wonderful new technology, where you can binge 37 episodes of Silicon Valley grifting without leaving your couch?

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