Movie Review: Top Gun: Maverick, directed by Joseph Kosinski (four stars)
“You should be a two-star general by now, yet here you are.” “I am where I belong, Sir.”
Maverick delivers. The action seldom slows, the tie-ins to the 1986 progenitor are many, but this is no re-make. Pumping music. (Bring ear defenders.) Snappy one-liners rather than real dialogue, but that’s who Maverick is. Nice action plane shots. Tries to hit all the right buttons. Easy for the audience to suspend disbelief and go with the show.
“Please don’t tell me we lost an engine.” “Alright, I won’t tell you that.”
Tom Cruise is the obvious choice to reprise his role. He nails it, but he’s getting old. And it shows. Despite often heavy makeup, the scars of cosmetic surgery are occasionally visible on the big screen.
“It’s not the plane, it’s the pilot.”
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