Top Gun: Maverick is a really well executed product that also made me feel better about Indy 5.
The whole movie plays with rhymes from the original Top Gun and yet, those rhymes are not just merely fan service or lack of creativity. Instead, they mostly serve the story and its progression. The story has its dignity, and besides not being the most original or believable, it flows fluently and with the right tension and release moments. Think of it as a The Force Awakens approach, but with more freedom in a less milked universe, and less flaws (and I also liked TFA, for the records).
Visually is no less than impressive, as one could expect. The hero is pictured as who he is: the best of the best, but with the years behind him clearly visible. Despite Cruise being Cruise, he's not Cruise-r than what is needed to bring the action too much beyond the edge of the believable (with a couple of excusable exceptions).
They paid respect to the original Top Gun, to Tony Scott, to the fans. They approached the contemporary culture with no obsession of boasting how progressive they have become and how they are necessarily (forcibly) in tune and in sync with the younger generations.
Sometimes it fails in suspending the disbelief, something it steps too much into comedy territory, but t's entertaining, well executed, and in my opinion worthy of a solid 7.5.
The whole movie plays with rhymes from the original Top Gun and yet, those rhymes are not just merely fan service or lack of creativity. Instead, they mostly serve the story and its progression. The story has its dignity, and besides not being the most original or believable, it flows fluently and with the right tension and release moments. Think of it as a The Force Awakens approach, but with more freedom in a less milked universe, and less flaws (and I also liked TFA, for the records).
Visually is no less than impressive, as one could expect. The hero is pictured as who he is: the best of the best, but with the years behind him clearly visible. Despite Cruise being Cruise, he's not Cruise-r than what is needed to bring the action too much beyond the edge of the believable (with a couple of excusable exceptions).
They paid respect to the original Top Gun, to Tony Scott, to the fans. They approached the contemporary culture with no obsession of boasting how progressive they have become and how they are necessarily (forcibly) in tune and in sync with the younger generations.
Sometimes it fails in suspending the disbelief, something it steps too much into comedy territory, but t's entertaining, well executed, and in my opinion worthy of a solid 7.5.
