MOVIE REVIEW: Tom Cruise proves he’s the last of his kind in the Top Gun sequel.
We can just get this out of the way right from the jump: Tom Cruise rules. As basically the personification of the last dying breath of the age of true movie stars, he constantly puts his all into making movies designed for the biggest screen possible, and with all the work it takes to make it look believable. He refuses to settle for less – he may just be the last Hollywood star that has not resorted to streaming.
Catching up with Pete “Maverick” Mitchell , we find that he never quite left his lone-wolf hotshot days behind, still a captain pulling tricks when he could be much more. He’s called back to the United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor program – the eponymous Top Gun – for a daunting mission: teaching a group of pilots their way through a near-impossible attack on a enemy uranium plant.
It’s pretty straightforward, but don’t think that means it’s not gripping. I was surprised how invested this made me in character arcs and plot lines picked up from a movie I mostly don’t care about; the climax has an emotional backbone that’s downright cathartic.
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