Action thriller (delayed release due to the pandemic).
The first Top Gun was the most 80's of 80's movies.
I was very excited about this sequel, especially after all the hype and as I haven't been to the cinema for over 2.5 years.
Picking up over 35 years after the original Top Gun, this film follows Pete "Maverick" Mitchell (Tom Cruise), who is now a test pilot recalled to the Top Gun academy, this time to be an instructor of a bunch of hot-head graduates. The training takes the new best of the best for a near-impossible strike mission, reminiscent of the Star Wars plot, a virtual suicide mission that only the best pilots in the world would ever contemplate. All of them are taken to their breaking points.
One of the graduates is played by Miles Teller (who portrays the son of 'Goose,' Maverick's old flying partner). There's an obvious and justifiable atmosphere.
Almost all the airborne sequences were achieved with practical effects, no (or very little) CGI and it really shows.
Not a complicated plot but, like the original, it didn't need to be. This film retains the spirit of the original and is everything you would hope for and kept me engaged from start to finish.
The first Top Gun was the most 80's of 80's movies.
I was very excited about this sequel, especially after all the hype and as I haven't been to the cinema for over 2.5 years.
Picking up over 35 years after the original Top Gun, this film follows Pete "Maverick" Mitchell (Tom Cruise), who is now a test pilot recalled to the Top Gun academy, this time to be an instructor of a bunch of hot-head graduates. The training takes the new best of the best for a near-impossible strike mission, reminiscent of the Star Wars plot, a virtual suicide mission that only the best pilots in the world would ever contemplate. All of them are taken to their breaking points.
One of the graduates is played by Miles Teller (who portrays the son of 'Goose,' Maverick's old flying partner). There's an obvious and justifiable atmosphere.
Almost all the airborne sequences were achieved with practical effects, no (or very little) CGI and it really shows.
Not a complicated plot but, like the original, it didn't need to be. This film retains the spirit of the original and is everything you would hope for and kept me engaged from start to finish.