Top Gun: Maverick
Radm. Chester ‘Hammer’ Cain: The end is inevitable, Maverick. Your kind is headed for extinction.
Capt. Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell: Maybe so, sir. But not today.
Stratospheric is the adjective with which I could get away with and finish the review here, the sequel to a film almost never surpasses the first, this one has succeeded.
The script for the sequel had a long gestation, which engaged Tom Cruise’s entourage, especially his 2 trusted screenwriters Peter Graig and Justine Marks for a long time, after the initial 2010 Paramount project alongside veteran producer Jerry Bruckheimer it was wrecked with the untimely death in 2012 of Tony Scott, director of the first Top Gun (1986), which marked an entire generation and launched the “star” of Tom Cruise into the sky firmament.
And the end result rewards the effort to make a film that will not revolutionize the seventh art but will take you to heaven.
Above all, the film manages to tell and outline the various characters very well, both the new ones and those of the first film, managing to close the circle of fears and pangs of conscience left in suspense by the 2 protagonists of the first Top Gun, Tom Cruise aka Maverick and Val Kilmer aka Iceman.
The short and intense scene that sees them reunited on the set, is touching also thinking…
