REVIEW: Depending on where you sit on the political spectrum, your enjoyment of TopGun: Maverick might depend on how much you’re willing to shut out the real world and surrender to movie-star magic More:
became, Tony Scott’s testosterone-powered blockbuster has all the narrative complexity of a music video crossed with a military recruitment reel. It’s hard to think of many more emblematic products of the rah-rah patriotism of the Reagan years, with its vigorous salute to American exceptionalism and triumph over a Cold War enemy left purposely vague — hey, don’t want to shut out a lucrative foreign market.
All that has only continued to toxify in the post-Trump age, with patriotism curdling into white supremacy. So depending on where you sit on the political spectrum, your enjoyment of might depend on how much you’re willing to shut out the real world and surrender to movie-star magic.
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