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Film Review: ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Is A High-Flying Sequel

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Top Gun: Maverick (★★★☆☆).The folks in the high-flying sequel might as well be throwing their barbs at Maverick star Tom Cruise, who proved himself a box office draw 36 years ago with the phenomenal success of Top Gun, the film that cemented his brash onscreen persona.The courageous, grinning, gunning Little Engine that will always out-hustle his competition no longer radiates that same insatiable hunger.

But Cruise — and Maverick — still move like men with something left to prove.Introduced living in an old Navy air hangar somewhere in the Mojave, Pete Mitchell is still a maverick after all these years, still forgoing a helmet while speeding around on his motorcycle, still ranked captain despite decades in service, and still risking his life for Navy and country as a test pilot for a Mach 9 program.

He’s also still flouting the authority of crusty older-timers like Ed Harris’ Rear Admiral “Hammer” Cain.Top Gun: Maverick traffics flagrantly in still and again, happy to make a meal of audience nostalgia for one of the quintessential ’80s blockbusters.

Directed by Joseph Kosinski, who also wrote and directed the 2013 Cruise vehicle Oblivion, the movie recreates or references several memorable moments from the original, directed by Tony Scott.So, again, Maverick on his Kawasaki Ninja races side-by-side against a fighter jet speeding into takeoff.

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