Top Gun Maverick Review

Many years have passed since Maverick 's ( Tom Cruise ) first successes at the controls of the plane and his decision to become an instructor - which, as we soon discover, did not go very well.

Now he has been entrusted to return to Top Gun and instruct the most outstanding soldiers of the latest batch to fulfill a mission that borders on the impossible. Among these soldiers is Bradley Bradshaw ( Miles Teller ), son of the partner Maverick lost in the first film; trauma that, as we will see, has not overcome.

Top Gun Maverick (2022) Movie Review

After many years in which Maverick ( Tom Cruise ) has not received the decorations that his reputation could deserve, his return to the academy confronts him with what is surely the most important challenge of his life. Not only because of the technical difficulty of the operation itself, but because of the responsibility of a teacher towards his successors and the values ​​that he wants to transmit to them, starting with respect for their own lives. A responsibility that torments the protagonist even more than the mission itself and that is the central axis of the film Top Gun Maverick , represented above all through his difficult relationship with Bradshaw ( Milles Teller ).

Tom Cruise return to Top Gun

Of Tom Cruise there is not much to say at this point. Without perhaps being too versatile, he is a very charismatic actor and it will be very special for fans to see him again in one of the roles that made him famous. Of course Maverick is now a totally different character, more mature and with a much clearer internal conflict, or at least much more important and better exploited.

Milles Teller and the group of secondary characters that accompanies him are also a very varied and charismatic group, although they are -there was no time for much else- quite archetypal characters.

Another supporting actress whose scenes work quite well for her bland character and plot is Jennifer Connelly , who plays the lead's romantic interest in this sequel: Penny.

What will we find in Top Gun Maverick?

In these years, Maverick hasn't found stability next to any woman either (well, maybe he hasn't looked for it much either). In the movie Top Gun Maverick he meets up with a love from the past with whom he shares several scenes that work particularly well due to the chemistry between the two, despite the fact that it is a subplot without any background and with no contribution to the story and evolution of the character. Tom Cruise had to have a partner, but where he came from or where the woman went did not matter much to them.

This subplot helps a feeling that leaves the second act that, although what they are telling us is interesting, there are sections in which the story progresses in fits and starts with somewhat repetitive sequences. The script is good, there is a conflict that it knows how to show and knows where it wants to go, although there are sections in which it advances with some clumsiness and halfway through the movie it can start to get a little long.

His spectacular action scenes

Fortunately, there are a significant number of action scenes that will wake us up from those little slumbers, and in the last third of the Top Gun Maverick movie they will have us glued to our seats.

Joseph Kosinski to the direction

Joseph Kosinski 's direction is suffocating as planes take to the skies to the tune of Hans Zimmer and Harold Faltermeyer . If you add the ability of the script to give us little breaks, only for seconds later to appear more and more difficulties, there is a third act of infarction.

Final opinion of the movie Top Gun Maverick (2022)

The Top Gun Maverick movie surprises as a sequel that, far from being a vague attempt to exploit nostalgia without trying too hard, is in every way noticeably better than the original .

The emotional conflict is clearer and is the central axis of a film that is also much better directed than that 1986 film that, let's face it, could have been something shocking and novel at the time with its flight scenes and its mythical soundtrack, but it is vague as to what it wanted to tell and it presented a disastrous realization.