How Long Top Gun: Maverick's Final Mission Actually Took in the Movie
Warning: the following contains SPOILERS for Top Gun: Maverick.
Almost the entire plot of Top Gun: Maverick focused on Captain Pete «Maverick» Mitchell (Tom Cruise) training the Navy's top pilots to fly the mission under 2 minutes and 30 seconds, but how much time did it actually take in the movie? The Top Gun sequel sees plenty of impressive aerial action in the F-18 Super Hornet fighter jet, but nothing in the movie compares to the adrenaline-pumping final act.
Maverick is one of the most impressive pilots to ever come out of the TOPGUN academy, but after over 30 years in the Navy, he hasn't been promoted beyond Captain due to his penchant for operating outside the bounds of his mission as he constantly flexes or outright disobeys the rules. In fact, it turns out the only reason he hasn't been ejected from the military is because of the respect of his longtime friend, Admiral Tom «Iceman» Kazansky (Val Kilmer), who keeps bailing him out of trouble; however, Maverick's luck is finally running out as he's sent to what's supposed to be his final post back at TOPGUN academy to train younger pilots for a highly sensitive mission.
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The mission's seemingly-impossible design requires the pilots to fly their F-18s through a canyon to stay out of radar detection to destroy a secret nuclear facility, and while they only have two-and-a-half minutes to deliver their payload after entering the canyon, in the movie's runtime, it actually takes closer to four minutes. Since it's not clear how long many of the cutaway scenes during the finale showing Top Gun 2's nameless villain's base or the command center on the aircraft carrier take, it's hard to get an exact time for how long
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