Top Gun: Maverick

He returns to the role of U.S. Navy fighter pilot Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, whose cocky, risk-taking flyboy personality made him the standout superstar, almost ...

Can Maverick whip the young pilots into shape, make them a team and get them prepared for a daring, do-or-die mission (in this case, a blitz to destroy an enemy compound in an unnamed rouge nation)? Can he teach them to fly at a dangerously low altitude, through a twisty canyon, below radar level to avoid a stronghold defended by lethal batteries of surface-to-air missiles? And the movie almost fetishizes certain “icons” from the first film—like Maverick in his signature shades or leaning into the wind on his Kawasaki GPZ motorcycle, flashing his pearly whites in a blissful grin. The new Top Gun has plenty of throwbacks to its 1980s roots, from a reprise of Kenny Loggins’ original signature song, Danger Zone, to character reappearances and nods to previous events. Now, Maverick is called back to Top Gun to train a new batch of elite younger pilots for a seemingly impossible mission. He returns to the role of U.S. Navy fighter pilot Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, whose cocky, risk-taking flyboy personality made him the standout superstar, almost four decades ago, at the elite Navy training program known as Top Gun. Leaping from the top of one building to another?

The long-awaited sequel starring Tom Cruise is an upgrade from the 1986 original.

Maverick and Penny on a sailboat! There’s Maverick and Penny on a motorcycle! Remember that scene in the original where Maverick and his wingman, Goose (Anthony Edwards), are singing “Great Balls of Fire” at the bar? Behind all that machismo, you’ll find charming and vulnerable performances from both Cruise and Teller. The result is more emotional than any movie that opens with Kenny Loggins singing “Danger Zone” has any business being. “Top Gun: Maverick,” out Friday, is worth the wait, a nostalgia-filled, adrenalin rush full of high-flying action, stunning visuals and, surprisingly, heart. CLEVELAND, Ohio -- “Top Gun” fans who waited (checks notes) 36 years for a sequel can breathe a sigh of relief.

Tom Cruise returns as Maverick in "Top Gun: Maverick." The sequel to the 1986 "Top Gun" is great fun. Miles Teller, Jon Hamm and Ed Harris also star.

“Top Gun: Maverick” is a movie-star movie with great action pieces best seen on the biggest screen available. But there’s also a sense of melancholy, and not just because of the danger involved. He’s a good pilot, but he’s also the son of the late Goose (Anthony Edwards), whose death Maverick still mourns and can’t shake responsibility for. “Maverick: Top Gun” is kind of like “The Right Stuff” if Cruise played Chuck Yeager and all of the Mercury astronauts. But it’s Rooster (Miles Teller) who is the most problematic. Bob (Lewis Pullman) is the nerd with guts. Hangman (Glen Powell) is the Iceman stand-in, good and knows it. Maverick is not slated to actually fly the mission, just instruct his students on how to. Like every other detail in the film, it’s a calculated decision. Kosinski begins the film on a busy aircraft carrier, much like the original, complete with Kenny Loggins’ massive hit “Danger Zone.” But we’re in the present now. It’s never mentioned, the better to avoid boycotts of ticket sales in countries that might not appreciate the rah-rah military message being used at their expense. At one point Kilmer’s Iceman, now an admiral who serves as a kind of guardian angel for his former rival, tells Cruise’s Maverick it’s time to let go.

Tom Cruise had his breakthrough moment in 1983's “Risky Business” and planted his flag as an A-list headliner with “Top Gun” in 1986, and he's never NOT ...

And of course the airborne sequences are spectacular and especially impressive given we are watching practical effects as opposed to CGI. “Top Gun: Maverick” is a visceral good time and a worthy salute to the original. (The filmmakers miss an easy opportunity to show Maverick’s emotional growth at one point, and I’ll say no more about that.) Cruise and Connelly are wonderful together, and Cruise and Teller establish an involving father-estranged-son type dynamic—and there’s a genuinely touching scene in which Maverick and Iceman are reunited, with Val Kilmer’s real-life battle with throat cancer reflected in Iceman’s declining health. We’re not looking for some sort of introspective, existential, dark drama with psychological underpinnings, we’re anticipating a good old-fashioned summer movie experience and we’re expecting to feel our teeth rattle and feel our eyeballs pop as we enjoy the rollercoaster ride and revel in all the familiar beats and callbacks. Maverick’s job is to select the best team for a mission that involves bombing a uranium enrichment plan on enemy soil—a mission that will take at least two miracles, or so we’re told, and looks to be something straight out of a “Star Wars” movie. If it weren’t for the A-6s and F-14s being replaced by F-18s and F-35s, you might wonder if you’ve accidentally wandered into a revival screening of “Top Gun” instead of the sequel. Tom Cruise had his breakthrough moment in 1983’s “Risky Business” and planted his flag as an A-list headliner with “Top Gun” in 1986, and he’s never NOT been a major movie star (with a carefully cultivated image) ever since.

Tom Cruise's hot shot pilot is back in this sequel to the 1986's original that is everything you want it to be.

In that way, "Maverick" is the perfect wingman to "Top Gun" and a more than worthy successor to a classic. "Maverick" manages to play with the past in a fun, honest, non-ironic way — the last thing anyone needs is for this to be a snark fest or to try to make fun of the original — while also moving its characters forward and giving them their own mission to lock into. For most of us, it's the closest we'll ever get to flying a real jet, and it's better than any simulated video game experience can offer (especially 1987's "Top Gun" NES game, a disappointment to this day, as long as we're going back and talking about the past here). There are many ways to say it, but in the most simple terms, "Top Gun: Maverick" rules, and once you see it, you're probably going to want to see it again. That a human element such as a smile can make such a huge impression is indicative of the kind of blockbuster "Top Gun: Maverick" is. All of which helps make "Top Gun: Maverick" the best big-screen, bring-your-friends, high-fiving moviegoing experience to roll around in years.

An early clue is when middle-aged Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Tom Cruise) is seen riding motorcycle without a helmet. Kind of acceptable in the 1980s. An absolute ...

And the fight sequences are genuinely thrilling, especially as they whiz between mountains and dip into valleys. The jets themselves are sleeker and cooler. Often, there are scenes where the hero triumphs and crowds cheer and the authority figure is forced to shake his head in grudging admiration. She and Maverick have a back story—they dated off and on, they were in love, he repeatedly broke her heart—that they treat as though we should already know about it. It is well known that Val Kilmer has been in poor health these last few years, but the film handles his appearance with generosity and grace. The film makes it clear that Maverick would be long out of the military for insubordination were it not for Iceman, now an admiral himself, having his back. (Hey, it’s the 21st century, after all!). We’ve got Hangman (Glen Powell), the overly cocky one. Maverick wouldn’t be Maverick without a humorless authority figure to rail against—and in this case that thankless role goes to Jon Hamm, as Admiral Simpson. A huge part of ’80s films—and I can’t emphasize this enough—is a renegade hero earning the respect of various authority figures. A cursory knowledge of the original film helps understand this one, although it’s not exactly Melville. Maverick’s best friend and wingman Goose died under his watch and he’s never forgiven himself, even though the military cleared him of any wrongdoing. The shirtless, vaguely homoerotic male bonding (although, alas, the tightie-whities of the ’80s are gone). The nose-thumbing of authority. Indeed, many elements of the original are intact. An early clue is when middle-aged Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Tom Cruise) is seen riding motorcycle without a helmet.

It landed like a massive G-force blast, as if I were a jet fighter pilot attempting a seemingly impossible climb: one of great satisfaction with this sequel and ...

Top Gun: Maverick spends a lot of time in this perspective, so it's good to see the stunt teams and cinematographers repeatedly strike a hot beach volleyball high-five over this collaboration. Everyone will have a different favorite on this front, but mine is a dramatic fly-by somewhat early in the film that I won't spoil for you, except to say that it was reportedly filmed with actors taking the real-life brunt of its buzz. were clearly eager to take cinematic air combat to the next level, and there's no getting around it: If you have to stitch three hospital-grade masks together or rent out a private room to feel comfortable in a public movie theater in 2022, you should consider doing so for this film. You might see another plane in view, or vapor trails, or dumped flares dancing and billowing smoke, or a glancing shadow of the jet against the Earth's surface because the F/A-18 Hornet is actually flying that freaking low in real life. As I walked out of my review screening of Top Gun: Maverick, coming down from its adrenaline-filled finale, a small part of my brain began looking for dents in the film's armor. But Top Gun's core tenets—incredible fighter-jet combat, enjoyable cheese, and the big-grin smile of Cruise—have returned in arguably finer form than the original.

In this rousing sequel to the 1986 blockbuster, directed by Joseph Kosinski, the first film's protagonist, a Navy fighter pilot (Tom Cruise), is ordered by his ...

The Motion Picture Association rating is PG-13 — parents strongly cautioned. Motion Picture Association rating, PG-13 — parents strongly cautioned. “Top Gun: Maverick” (Paramount) — Catholic News Service classification, A-III — adults. The Catholic News Service classification is A-III — adults. The Motion Picture Association rating is PG-13 -- parents strongly cautioned. Tom Cruise stars in a scene from the movie "Top Gun: Maverick." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults.

If you loved "Top Gun" from 1986, will you like the sequel? If you didn't give a care about the first film, should you see the second? The answer is ...

"Top Gun: Maverick" was shot in 2019 but the release was delayed by the pandemic. But isn't that what some of the best action movies are meant to do? But the filmmaking of "Top Gun: Maverick" is light years beyond the first movie. Though Cruise said he was waiting for the right story, the 2012 death of "Top Gun" director Tony Scott was just one of many issues. The return of Tom Cruise as Pete "Maverick" Mitchell to TOPGUN, the elite Navy Fighter Weapons School, is as satisfying and delicious as a big juicy strawberry. You will feel the pilots' sweats and struggles.

Franchise newcomer Jennifer Connelly gets a wink at the earliest days of her own 1980s career in "Top Gun: Maverick."

As revealed in the trailer, "Top Gun: Maverick" marks the arrival of Jennifer Connelly as the new but seemingly old love interest of our heroic hotshot (Tom Cruise) in the new sequel, Penelope "Penny" Benjamin. Penny arrives on the scene from behind a bar that's a regular spot for Navy types. It's a song that has absolutely no connection to the Tony Scott-directed classic "Top Gun" from, but for fans of one of Connelly's career-defining roles and those that know how to dance the magic dance, it'll likely ring a few bells. Franchise newcomer Jennifer Connelly gets a wink at the earliest days of her own career, and it's just as fun.

Awareness around the globe is sky-high, and though tracking stateside shows older men being dominant, the hope here is that Top Gun 2 is a 'five-quad' movie as ...

The one holdout territory is Korea, which is another mega Cruise market; that territory still recouping from Covid. It’s not a big piracy market, so when Top Gun 2 lands there, look for it to do well. Directed by Loren Bouchard & Bernard Derriman, the pic follows the Belchers, who try to save their restaurant from closing as a sinkhole forms in front of it. The foreign box office is in a healthy place. Cruise’s previous biggest 3-day at the domestic box office was 2005’s War of the Worlds, which earned $64.8M in what was an extended July 4 launch that began on Wednesday June 29 that year. Then there was the London Royal premiere, followed by a Tokyo premiere; that latter country a big one for Cruise where M:I – Fallout grossed over $42M unadjusted for inflation. This was followed by a San Diego naval base world premiere where the red carpet was rolled out on the USS Midway aircraft carrier.

Tom Cruise, in the role that made him an action star, drips with charisma as the unbearably cocky Navy fighter pilot Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, a character that ...

Too much time had passed, and the world had changed too much for a movie about Navy aviators to match up with the superhero pictures that now dominate popular ...

Paramount took some heat when it decided to wait out the pandemic to give theaters a chance to recover before releasing "Top Gun: Maverick." Both the "Fast & Furious" sequel "F9" and the James Bond film "No Time to Die" were relative disappointments when they finally came to theaters, but "Maverick" is a far better movie in every way. "Maverick" is one of those rare movies that understands and fully takes advantage of the latest theater upgrades. The second is a kickass war movie with a team of arrogant aviators who must learn to come together to complete a nearly impossible mission under the guidance of an arrogant aviator who must learn how to teach them what he knows. The team behind "Top Gun: Maverick" defied all expectations to deliver one of the best popcorn movie experiences in years. Movie fans had every reason to expect that a sequel to "Top Gun" more than three decades after the release of the original movie would be one of those legendary disasters. First is a moving story for adult people about the cost of pursuing a career at the expense of personal relationships and whether it's still possible to change enough to repair the damage.

What does a man like Tom Cruise's Lt. Pete Mitchell, aka ace Navy pilot “Maverick,” look like in his old age? What would it be like for such a man to retire?

In this way, Top Gun: Maverick is openly inviting audiences to recognize Cruise’s own real-life biography in the fictional character. Now raised to the rank of merely captain—three ranks above where we met him in the first Top Gun (which amounts to one promotion per decade)—Maverick is where he belongs, pushing the envelope and in the case of the movie’s first scene, testing experimental jets in the same daring Right Stuff fashion as Chuck Yeager, the Air Force pilot who in 1947 made worldwide headlines as the test pilot to first break the sound barrier. That tells you where Maverick is in his life.

Mitchell is reunited with an old flame, whose name die-hard fans may remember from the first film: Penny Benjamin. Jennifer Connelly was cast to play the ...

Tom Cruise could secure the first $100 million opening weekend of his career with "Top Gun: Maverick."

When it comes to the hijinks of the Belcher family, she says that’s a good thing, writing “‘The Bob’s Burgers Movie’ knows its recipe and sticks to it.” If ticket sales reach the higher end of that range, “Top Gun: Maverick” will rank among the highest-grossing movies of the year in a matter of days. Joseph Kosinski directed the PG-13 “Top Gun: Maverick,” which picks up decades after the original. The film’s positive word of mouth should be helpful in reaching younger audiences, who were not alive when “Top Gun” opened 36 years ago. In today’s moviegoing landscape, it’s rare that Earth-bound adventures like “Top Gun” (though Cruise’s Maverick does, technically, flirt with sky-high altitudes) would be able to rake in that kind of cash in a single weekend. “Maverick” is playing in 4,732 North American cinemas, the widest theater count in history.

This review of the film Top Gun: Maverick does not contain spoilers. We currently live in a time perceived to have more villains than men or women we want.

Top Gun: Maverick is a full-throttle, action-packed nostalgia machine that delivers the supersonic thrills we all have been clamoring for. The scene with Cruise is a moment that will put a lump in your throat. One of the best action movies in years that has just the right amount of sentimentality to go along with its Hollywood trappings. Top Gun: Maverick is a full-throttle, action-packed nostalgia machine that delivers the supersonic thrills we all have been clamoring for. In a world that desperately needs heroes, Hollywood returned to the one man who can deliver – Tom Cruise! Stand up and cheer, ladies and gentlemen. Cruise is having a lot of fun revisiting a role that made him a worldwide megastar whose wattage has lasted for decades. While the romanticizing piano scene with Miles Teller hits home, it evokes the memory of the beloved character. (The country is left to be ambiguous, but according to reports like Screenrant, the speculation is Iran because of the F-14s flying in the film). However, Mav now has a reprieve from his friend, Tom “Iceman” Kazansky (Val Kilmer). How? He is currently an Admiral. Kazansky assigns Maverick to train Top Gun graduates, the Navy’s top aviators, on an impossible mission (sound familiar?). He needs to prepare and pick six pilots to help bomb a site producing nuclear weapons. They revisit the film and fold in Maverick’s backstory. While fighting his demons, Maverick must make believers out of his new boss, Admiral Beau “Cyclone” Simpson (Jon Hamm), and his star recruits. This was no different in the 80s, an era reflected in movies with big villains, big action, and the intended consequences of creating victors that produced megastars.

En la secuela, Maverick está entrenando a una nueva generación de pilotos de Top Gun, y se toma ese deber en serio.

«Después de más de treinta años de servicio como uno de los mejores aviadores de la Marina, Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell (Tom Cruise) está donde pertenece, empujando el sobre como un valiente piloto de pruebas y esquivando el avance en el rango que lo dejaría en tierra. A partir de ahí, a los actores se les enseñó cómo volar sus propios aviones en etapas, y cómo manejar el movimiento y la conciencia espacial dentro de la cabina. Cruise también sintió que era importante enseñar al nuevo grupo de actores cómo retratar de manera convincente a los pilotos de élite. Y como se ve en un nuevo reportaje, Cruise insistió en que los nuevos intérpretes aprendan a volar para sus papeles.

This weekend Tom Cruise has a chance to do something he's never done before — have a film open to more than $100 million at the domestic box office.

Additionally, $100 million box-office debuts have only become commonplace in the last decade, as ticket prices have risen significantly and fan-driven franchises such as Marvel and DC have enticed moviegoers to show up on opening weekend in droves. "Mission: Impossible – Fallout," which was released in 2018, is Cruise's highest-grossing film, making $220 million domestically and $791.1 million globally. Even if the film does not reach $100 million, it is still expected to become Cruise's highest opening weekend domestically. The exception being the Mission: Impossible franchise and a second Jack Reacher film in 2016. Box-office analysts currently foresee a domestic opening of between $98 million and $125 million for the film. - Box-office analysts currently foresee a domestic opening of between $98 million and $125 million for the film.

Do you feel the need for speed? Tom Cruise's eagerly anticipated sequel 'Top Gun: Maverick' finally touches down in local theaters.

Maverick is back riding the clouds to glory, with millions of eager fans longing to be his wingman. Maverick might be the “old-timer,” but he often takes his students to school, earning their respect with highly skilled aerial acts of daring. Wisecracks are uttered about Cruise’s age, but his 59-year-old abs are indistinguishable from the six-packs of the young hotshots, as evidenced in a shirtless beach football scene, the new film’s update on the original’s volleyball sequence. “Top Gun: Maverick” has the look and feel of its 36-year-old predecessor, but the stakes are loftier, the emotions even higher. Rooster sports the same mustache, charm and singing ability as his dad, ripping out a terrific barroom rendition of “Great Balls of Fire” at The Half Deck. Unlike his dad, Rooster pretty much hates Maverick, who looks at his pal’s son and sees a ghost. The added years render him more vulnerable, but also more interesting, a middle-aged man dealing with three decades of baggage. He rides the same motorcycle, sports the same Aviator shades, still buzzes the tower like the young daredevil of old. Only the tried-and-true F-18s of Maverick’s day are stealth enough to fly beneath the detection of anti-aircraft systems. The program is being phased out in favor of drones and robotic pilots. It soars from the get-go, with the familiar voice of Kenny Loggins leading us on another flight into the “Danger Zone.” It’s a seat-rumbling adrenaline rush, as the camera alights on a busy aircraft carrier. The sense of deja vu is palpable, the opening lifted straight from the original. Tom Cruise knows about impossible missions, but “Top Gun: Maverick” is among the easier ones.

That means you'll be seeing a lot of new faces in the cast, including Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, and Ed Harris.

Instead, Jackass Forever came to VOD about a week after it was released on Paramount+. Therefore, if you want to be able to watch Top Gun: Maverick on streaming as soon as it’s available, your best bet is to sign up for Paramount+. No. Top Gun: Maverick is a Paramount movie, not a Warner Bros. movie, and therefore will not be streaming on HBO Max when it opens in theaters. Top Gun: Maverick will open in theaters in the U.S on May 27, 2022. For now, the only way to watch Top Gun: Maverick is to go to a movie theater. The wingmen may look a little different, but if the rave reviews from critics are anything to go by, the spirit of Top Gun remains the same. It’s been 36 years since the first Top Gun movie flew into theaters, and yet somehow, Tom Cruise has barely aged a day.

Miles Teller, uno de los protagonistas de 'Top Gun: Maverick', actuará como el invitado de honor para la arrancada en la 106ª edición de las 500 Millas de ...

Debutó en el largometraje en 2010 en Rabbit Hole, tras ser elegido para el papel por la coprotagonista Nicole Kidman. Teller interpreta a Rooster, el hijo de Goose que pereció en la película original. Teller comenzó a alcanzar el éxito de la crítica tras protagonizar la película de James Ponsoldt, The Spectacular Now, por la que ganó el Premio Especial del Jurado de Drama a la Actuación en el Festival de Cine de Sundance de 2013.