How Long Is Top Gun: Maverick?
Warning: Spoilers for Top Gun: Maverick!
Tom Cruise's new summer blockbuster Top Gun: Maverick runs somewhat longer than its 1986 predecessor Top Gun, and that's a byproduct of their different stories and eras. With wildly positive reviews, Top Gun: Maverick's debut in theaters is poised to make it a massive Memorial Day weekend hit. In Maverick, Cruise returns as adventurous Navy aviator Pete «Maverick» Mitchell, overseeing a mission to stop an unnamed enemy nation from launching a deadly weapon with younger TOPGUN graduates as his team.
The run times of summer movies have noticeably increased in the time between Top Gun and Maverick. This can even be seen before the return of Tom Cruise in Top Gun: Maverick with rising run times in his own career, and particularly in the Mission: Impossible movies. With the first Mission: Impossible running for 110 minutes, 2018's Mission: Impossible — Fallout came in at 147 minutes. That isn't to say it's a universal attribute that 21st-century summer movies always push past the two-hour mark, but studios have nonetheless leaned increasingly in that direction. Maverick is just the latest example of that trend.
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Top Gun: Maverick has a run time of 131 minutes, which is a fairly standard zone for contemporary summer tentpoles in terms of their overall duration. This also makes Maverick a longer movie than the first Top Gun, which clocked in at 110 minutes. But beyond the external industry trends, there are also narrative reasons that help explain Maverick's longer run time.
The other big factor is the transition of Maverick in Top Gun: Maverick into a mentor who battles internal doubts he's never dealt with before. In Top Gun, the
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