![]() Cruise is the funniest he’s been since Tropic Thunder, while Powell’s Hangman strikes gold as the movie’s improbably hilarious a**hole. There’s some genuinely brilliant comedy here, too. Unsurprisingly, Maverick himself is the biggest beneficiary of the film's refreshing maturity, and audiences left unmoved by his exploits three decades earlier may walk away surprised by how much they come to care for him a second time around. Gone is the dated orange haze, camp sensibilities and overfamiliarity with Berlin’s corny ballad (seriously, Take My Breath Away drops at least six times in Scott’s original), elements replaced instead by moments of real emotional resonance that give depth to characters old and new. In Top Gun: Maverick, then, failure is fatal. ![]() Miles Teller stars as the son of Nick "Goose" Bradshaw in Top Gun: Maverick (Image credit: Paramount Pictures) To perform a Death Star-esque bombing run on the facility, the young pilots must fly through a narrow valley at both a dangerously low altitude and gravity-defying speed. The mission in question tasks said recruits with destroying a real-life uranium depository guarded by surface-to-air missile launchers and a fleet of high-spec enemy planes. ![]() ![]() For starters, the stakes involved don't only concern pride, but survival. The movie’s intro sequence is a near carbon copy of its predecessor’s equivalent, while even Maverick’s classroom entrance as a TOPGUN instructor imitates that of Kelly McGillis’ Charlie.īut beyond these superficial similarities – which are all, it must be said, deliberate and enjoyable references – Top Gun: Maverick tells a far more mature tale. Teller’s Rooster bears all the character traits of his father (right down to the mustache and drunken piano-playing), while Glen Powell’s Hangman is a gifted jock in the Iceman mold. If that synopsis sounds like a thinly-veiled rerun of the original movie’s story, you wouldn’t be far wrong – and make no mistake, there are plenty of callbacks here. ![]()
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