Reteaming with ‘Oblivion’ director Joseph Kosinski, the perfectionist producer-star insists on flying his own planes in this stunning follow-up. The world is not the same place it was in 1986, when \u201cTop Gun\u201d ruled the box office. In Ronald Reagan, America had a movie star for a president, and producers Jerry Bruckheimer and Don Simpson as its honorary ministers of propaganda. The same year that \u201cPlatoon\u201d challenged the United States\u2019 militaristic track record, \u201cTop Gun\u201d sold a thrilling if narrow-minded fantasy of American exceptionalism \u2014 of boys and their toys, of macho-man bromance and what it means to be the best. Three years after Tom Cruise flipped the bird to a Russian MiG fighter plane, the Berlin Wall fell. Two years later, the Soviet Union collapsed.<\/p>\n
One could argue that our new, post-Cold War world didn\u2019t need a \u201cTop Gun\u201d sequel. (Tom Cruise himself once insisted as much.) But one would be wrong to do so. Building on the three-parts-steel-to-one-part-corn equation that director Tony Scott so effectively set 36 years earlier, the new film more than merits its existence, mirroring Cruise\u2019s character, Pete \u201cMaverick\u201d Mitchell, in pushing the limits of what the machine could do \u2014 the machine in this case being cinema, which takes to the skies as no blockbuster has before.<\/p>\n
Hardly anything in \u201cTop Gun: Maverick\u201d will surprise you, except how well it does nearly all the things audiences want and expect it to do. Orchestrated by Joseph Kosinski \u2014 the dynamo who collaborated with Cruise on \u201cOblivion\u201d and first worked with Miles Teller on 2017\u2019s terrific, underseen firefighter drama \u201cOnly the Brave\u201d \u2014 to appeal to veterans and neophytes alike, this high-performance follow-up sends Maverick back to the Topgun program, where he won the heart of Charlie (Kelly McGillis) and lost best friend Goose (Anthony Edwards).<\/p>\n
Flashbacks notwithstanding, neither of those actors is in this movie, though the screenplay \u2014 a tag-team effort between Christopher McQuarrie (Cruise\u2019s guy), Eric Warren Singer (Kosinski\u2019s guy) and Ehren Kruger (yikes) \u2014 just about resurrects Goose via his now-adult son, Bradley Bradshaw (Teller), call sign \u201cRooster.\u201d (\u201cPhoenix\u201d would be more apt, but that tag goes to Monica Barbaro, playing the lone woman in this testosterone pool.) The resemblance between Rooster and his late dad is uncanny, courtesy of a goofy moustache, some hair gel and a scene in which the young pilot pounds out \u201cGreat Balls of Fire\u201d on the Hard Deck piano, the way Goose once did.<\/p>\n
The Hard Deck is now operated by a character from Maverick\u2019s past, Penny Benjamin (Jennifer Connelly), although she was only referenced in passing before: In \u201cTop Gun,\u201d Maverick is chewed out by his superior officer for having \u201ca history of high-speed passes over five air control towers \u2014 and one admiral\u2019s daughter!\u201d Penny is that daughter: strong, independent and responsible for a daughter of her own (not Maverick\u2019s, and too young to be his love interest). Cruise\u2019s character has matured on the womanizing front, and the movie provides a shallow yet satisfying romantic subplot between him and Penny, which gives him something to come home for, since his daredevil tendencies otherwise give off strong kamikaze vibes.<\/p><\/div>\n
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