Waited two years for this day!! Pays homage to the original movie extremely well. Updated for the new generation of movie goers. It’s a keeper! Will definitely see it again!!

As someone who wasn’t born when Top Gun came out, this movie still blew me away. This truly is a phenomenal sequel that really shows how much it was worth the wait. For me, I loved it and Top Gun was a movie I enjoyed. But if you have someone like a parent or you were someone born in the older generations and were there to see Top Gun when it first came out and carry that nostalgia, YOU WILL LOVE THIS MOVIE, you will leave the sat theater amazed by what that movie has to offer. I watched it with siblings and I’m excited to watch it with my dad because I can’t wait to see his reaction to a movie that he has loved since he was a kid and just how much nostalgia will hit him throughout the movie. Obviously it’s no BEST MOVIE OF ALL TIME, but for my criteria and for what i want from a movie, that’s a definite 10/10 and I certainly am excited to watch it again!!!

In short, Kosinski and his team have accomplished their odd, hybrid mission more impressively than should have been possible. Most importantly, they have, in an age of cartoon computer graphics, delivered action sequences that appear to be taking place in the real world.

Kosinski’s dogfights are pristine, incredible feats of filmmaking, economical and orbiting around recognizable space, but given to occasional, inexplicable shocks of pure chaos. Then quickly cohering again.

Top Gun: Maverick is one of those rare breeds: a sequel that’s better than the original.

James Berardinelli

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