Top Gun: Maverick Review
Audiences have been waiting a long time to see a sequel to Top Gun. After being stuck in development hell for three decades, Top Gun: Maverick then had to sit on a shelf for a couple of years and wait for a global pandemic to end. Fortunately, the Top Gun follow-up – which finally arrives in theaters this Friday – delivers the goods. It lives up to the thrill of Tony Scott’s 1986 original and surpasses its melodrama. There’s never a dull moment in the movie; the interplay between the pilots is just as much fun as the airplane action.
Like many recent “legacy sequels,” Top Gun: Maverick contains plenty of nostalgic references to the original – a few recognizable music cues, another shirtless ballgame on the beach, another rivalry between a young hotshot who wants to be the best and an arrogant jerk who turns out to have a heart of gold – but it also works spectacularly on its own terms. Ghostbusters: Afterlife and 2022’s Scream were nice additions to a familiar canon, but unlike those films, Top Gun: Maverick would still be a phenomenal movie if the original never existed.
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It’s a great story with great characters. The screenplay – credited to a grand total of five writers: Peter Craig, Justin Marks, Ehren Kruger, Eric Warren Singer, and frequent Cruise collaborator Christopher McQuarrie – adheres to the crucial backbone of any compelling narrative: establishing a plot, then letting a story take precedence. Top Gun: Maverick kicks off its plot with the external conflict of a tricky upcoming military operation, but the internal conflicts of Maverick’s guilt over Goose’s death and his unresolved tensions with Goose’s son take a poignant spotlight throughout
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