I'm a fighter pilot… It's not what I am, it's who I am.”
The movie’s a masterwork of cinematography and editing, aiming for visual clarity and hitting the bullseye. (The action inevitably blends CGI and practical stunts, but you’ll be hard-pressed to notice.) Not that the film is truly about anything beyond its existence as a diversion for its audience; its jingoistic military hoo-ah is more vague than it is in the original film, and the blatant nonspecificity of the enemy in this movie is more nudge-wink comedy than worthy of critical harping. They have three weeks to train for a two-and-a-half-minute endeavor in which four planes have to go LEFFFFFFTTTTTT real hard and then RIGGGGHHTTTTTTT a little bit harder and then left and right and left and right but faster, and then UPPPPPPPP and then upside-down and then DOWWWNNNNNNNN and then launch missiles at a miniscule target (it’s an illicit uranium-enrichment site in a very purposely unnamed country, if you must know) and hopefully destroy it and then go UUUUPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP and try not to pass out from the Gs and then avoid some surface-to-air missiles and hopefully enemy planes that are better and faster than your planes don’t notice. He gets word that his program is about to be axed by a grimacing honcho (Ed Harris) barking this and that about Pentagon budgets, so Mav pushes the envelope: “They want Mach 10, let’s give ’em Mach 10.” Does he give ’em Mach 10? There’s a point where it reaches fever pitch, teases us, breaks the tension and then lets rip like a golden retriever let off its leash to bound and gambol as we giggle helplessly. But the same aesthetic rigor Cruise brings to the Mission: Impossible franchise easily translates to Maverick, which renders the highway to the danger zone even faster and more dangerous than before. Meanwhile, Mav reconnects with his ex, Penny Benjamin (Jennifer Connelly), now an available single mom who owns the bar with the piano in it, as well as Iceman (like I said, Val Kilmer!), because this movie needs to make us cry before it juices the living crap out of our adrenaline glands. Sex and Skin: One amusingly awkward, uber-dorky non-sex sex scene in which Cruise and Connelly are primarily shot from the neck up and has more smiling than kissing. You’ll never take the movie star out of this guy. That lungs-of-steel, guts-of-iron mission requires Mav to return to Top Gun, the school for elite fighter pilots, and teach the young whippersnapper cockpitters how to be total f—ing badasses, while Vice Admiral Cyclone Simpson (Jon Hamm) never stops pursing his lips disapprovingly as he tries to keep the lowercase-m maverick from breaking all the rules even though the mission pretty much demands that all the rules be broken. You know, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, the guy whose picture is next to “hotshot” in the dictionary.
You can finally watch Top Gun: Maverick at home as a $20 digital download -- but there's no hint about when you can stream it for $5 (or free).
And even though it has two different tiers, it has never "paywalled" a movie behind the higher-priced membership level. Paramount Plus requires a paid subscription, so nothing on the service is free -- unless you watch it while you're signed up on a free trial. For past live-action movies, Paramount has tended to give them at least 45 days exclusively in theaters before making them available to stream on Paramount Plus. The movie is distributed by Paramount Pictures, which is owned by the same parent company as Paramount Plus. But Top Gun: Maverick still isn't streaming, even as other ways to watch it at home are coming into land. [Top Gun: Maverick](https://www.topgunmovie.com/) hit cinemas in time for Memorial Day's kickoff of summer.
Now, the Top Gun sequel will be available to stream on Paramount+, Amazon Prime Video, Vudu and other streaming video-on-demand platforms.
Top Gun: Maverick was released in theatres on May 26. The price may vary depending on where you rent from. When is Top Gun: Maverick released on Amazon Prime?
The Tom Cruise-led film is branching out from theaters.
It will be a waiting game until Paramount+ adds the title to its library, but rest assured, subscribers shouldn’t have to pay an extra fee to access the movie. [Tom Cruise](https://www.tvinsider.com/people/tom-cruise/)-led franchise, they’ll have to wait a little while longer before it’s available for free from home. And for the viewers who wish to stream the film on [Paramount+](https://www.tvinsider.com/network/paramount-plus/), where it will settle at some point, they will have to wait a little bit longer. [See Also](https://www.tvinsider.com/1054275/honor-society-gaten-matarazzo-michael-paramount-plus/) ['Honor Society' Star Gaten Matarazzo on Subverting Teen Rom-Com Tropes](https://www.tvinsider.com/1054275/honor-society-gaten-matarazzo-michael-paramount-plus/) Currently, the hit title is viewable if purchased digitally off of platforms like [Prime Video](https://www.amazon.com/Top-Gun-Maverick-Tom-Cruise/dp/B0B18G8R9B?tag=tvinsider00-20), [Vudu](https://click.justwatch.com/a?cx=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&r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vudu.com%2Fcontent%2Fmovies%2Fdetails%2FTop-Gun-Maverick%2F1196579&uct_country=us), and [Google Play](https://play.google.com/store/movies/details?id=PnS5p3AmpRE.P) where it is currently listed at $19.99.
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As reported, the actor/producer was adamant that Paramount Pictures delay the film during the height of the pandemic, until it could be released in theaters.
He adds, "when they see the faces of our actors in those F-18s -- how they're contorted, and what they went through. One of the reasons Cruise and co-producer Jerry Bruckheimer pushed for a theatrical release was because of the film's acclaimed aerial sequences. But you don't get the real experience."