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Rating: 8 stars

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Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

Directed by Joseph Kosinski

Action | Adventure | Thriller

Most recently watched by Boki16, sensoria, VicnaLobster, CaptainBigTime, AllAboutSteve

Overview

After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell finds himself training a detachment of TOP GUN graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen.

Rated PG-13 | Length 131 minutes

Actors

Tom Cruise | Val Kilmer | Miles Teller | Jennifer Connelly | Bashir Salahuddin | Jon Hamm | Charles Parnell | Monica Barbaro | Lewis Pullman | Jay Ellis | Danny Ramirez | Glen Powell | Jack Schumacher | Manny Jacinto | Kara Wang | Greg Tarzan Davis | Jake Picking | Raymond Lee | Jean Louisa Kelly | Lyliana Wray | Ed Harris | Chelsea Harris | Darnell Kirkwood | Austin Bowerman | Stephanie Andrea Barron | Alec Williams | Rachel Winfree | Peter Mark Kendall | Ian Gary | Bob Stephenson | Landon Gordon | Margaret Strabala | Ryan Heilmann | Shantel Limbo | James Handy | Whylip Lee | Tristan Henry | Jason Robert Boles | Brian Ferguson | Chido Nwokocha | Chaz Ingram | Rachael Markarian | Shannon Kane | Norman Ralph Eliasen | Tommy Kijas | Jack Kilmer | Mercedes Kilmer

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Viewing Notes

This movie checks all the boxes and yet so entertaining. Probably a 9/10 experience saddled by a goofy paint-by-the-numbers “let’s get all the predictable story beats crammed into this thing” filmmaking. But sometimes that’s perfectly fine and still damn good filmmaking. Was waiting for my capacity audience to start chanting “U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!”

It really is a love letter to Tony Scott and the original film, esp. since it lifts so many of the same plot points. Yes, I enjoyed the hell outta this flick and cried a few times. The IMAX sequences were astounding. Would love to see this again in IMAX with a lot less people. If my 7pm Tuesday screening is any indication, hopefully it will keep the IMAX screen for a while.

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