 After four thousand years and several different iterations of Tom Cruise, we finally have a sequel to Top Gun called Maverick. Let's talk about it. I feel the need. The need to speed through this review because if you love the original Top Gun, you don't need to listen. I mean you're going. You're already there. So this is a review for the naysayers out there that thought the first Top Gun was incredibly overrated and don't get the appeal. I thought the first film wrote checks its body couldn't cash and now, all these years later, to come back to this character and see how they fleshed him out, to see some depth apply to him, to see Tom Cruise, Tom cruising all over this thing, I'm a believer. The first film is still not my cup of tea but this second movie, oh my gosh, this is an awesome film. You might be asking yourself Adam, Booby, what changed between these two pictures? What makes this one so great? Well for starters, the focus is on the right thing this time, Maverick and the Top Gun Academy. It doesn't play second fiddle to some garbage love story. Is there one? Yeah, there is. Jennifer Connolly does a great job. It also helps that it doesn't steamroll the picture. It just helps to flesh out Maverick's character a little bit more. And by a little bit more, I mean at all. Because in the first movie, he's just a cocky dude who, I mean that's it, that's really it. I went with a guy who had never seen Top Gun, he asked if I had to watch it going into this and I said well I don't know what this movie's about but I would assume no. Because not a lot happens in the first film, we know he's a kick-ass pilot, we know he lost his best buddy Goose and we know there's this raw sexual heat between him and Iceman. The Goose stuff is in play here because Maverick still hasn't moved on from the guy's death all these years later. He doesn't know how. To make matters worse, he's constantly reminded of his best buddy because he has to train his son Rooster. Got a couple birds going on and yeah, Maverick's taking him under his wing. Subscribe for puns. We have Maverick front and center not just as a badass pilot but also a kick-ass instructor showing these kids what it really means to feel the need for speed, how you have to act and react to situations on the fly. On the fly. We're doing it still. We don't have a shirtless volleyball scene, they upped the ante. This time a shirtless football scene on the beach. It's unbeatable. And the most critical element to get right, they completely exceed expectations on. And that is of course, plain porn. Some good plain porn. Since this is mostly practical effects with Tom Cruise flying one of these bad boys around for a while, proving that he's going to outlive us all still, I was to use a cliched phrase on the edge of my theater seat the entire time these guys were in the air trying to complete their mission. And again, unlike the first film, there is a focused narrative. It's not just guys trying to impress each other and pass the Top Gun Flight Academy. No no no. They have an actual mission here. A mission that they're being trained for. A very dangerous one with heavy stakes. Outside of the main protagonist TC, short for Tom Cruise, we have MT, short for Miles Teller, who honestly going in I kind of groaned about. I had no interest in seeing him in this film. He won me over. He had great chemistry with Tom Cruise. I believe the relationship. I believe the movie's PG-13. I think there was one F-bomb dropped because that's like the mandatory cool thing to do while still maintaining that PG-13 rating. This is a movie that you can take kids to like, you know, like a nine year old, a 10 year old. There's no problem in my book was showing him this. It is long. It's over two hours for sure. I felt it a little bit right around the half hour mark. There's a bar scene where we're kind of introduced to all the new recruits, you know, the new class of Top Guns. That scene felt far longer than it needed to be. Like we could have shaped 10 minutes off of that puppy, wouldn't have missed anything. Regardless of that, I have no complaints. This was an awesome film. Top to bottom. I want to see it again. Cinematography's on point. Scott would be proud. RIP. Music kicks ass. We got Kenny Loggins back. We got the Top Gun theme song. Visually. Visually, it's stunning. If you're a fan of the first Top Gun, you are in for one hell of a treat. If you're not a fan, you're in for one hell of a treat. If you give this a chance, I think you're really going to be won over. A person like me who didn't think much of the first film, but still could understand and appreciate where people are coming from. God, this was so good. Can't wait to watch it again with the rest of my family. And now I'm just clamoring for a days of thunder too. Make it happen, Tom Cruise. Get behind that race car. Show us what you can do. We already saw you flying around at Mach 10. I mean, I don't think he did that. But still, he's back in that plane just like... No one does it like Tom Cruise. I'm sorry. He's one of the legends of old that doesn't ever seem to get old. All right. Have you seen Maverick already? Let me know in the comments what you thought about the film. I'm very eager to hear what you have to say. Again, I encourage you to subscribe to the channels. I post tons of movie related content each and every week. Make sure to hit that notification bell somewhere. It's swimming above, hanging out. That'll let these videos show up right in your feed. 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