Top Gun: Maverick's Early Reviews Are Good News For Its Box Office
According to early CinemaCon reviews, Top Gun: Mavericklives up to the sequel’s outsized hype, which is great news for the movie’s box office potential. Top Gun was a huge hit at the box office upon its 1986 release. While the military drama is now viewed as a cheesy cult classic, Top Gun's less-than-stellar reviews upon the movie’s initial release did nothing to dent its massive financial success.
However, the much-hyped Top Gun: Maverick cannot hope to repeat the original movie’s box office impact. Even if the sequel is as commercially successful as its predecessor, the thirty-six-year wait between movies and the success of the original Top Gun meansthat Top Gun: Maverick arrives in cinemas burdened with much more expectation. Not only that but Top Gun: Maverick will likely be darker and sadder than the original Top Gun since the sequel addresses Maverick and Iceman’s aging and the encroaching obsolescence of their roles as test pilots.
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Between Top Gun: Maverick's status as a more elegiac movie than the fun-focused original Top Gun and the big expectations being put on the sequel’s release, the sequel can’t repeat the sleeper hit success of the original movie. As such, the news out of CinemaCon that Top Gun: Maverick is actually good — in fact, very good, if early reviews are to be believed - bodes well for the sequel’s box office potential despite the franchise's decades-long dormancy and Cruise's lengthy absence from cinema screens. While these reviews might be overblown, they are still promising for Top Gun: Maverick’s word-of-mouth, something that helped fellow 80s franchise revival Ghostbusters: Afterlife excel at the box office last November
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