Top Gun Maverick 2022 hollywood movies review

Top Gun: Maverick is a 2022 American action drama film directed by Joseph Kosinski. It was written by Ehren Kruger, Eric Warren Singer, and Christopher McQuarrie, from a story conceived by Peter Craig and Justin Marks. The sequel to Top Gun (1986), the film stars Tom Cruise as Captain Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, a test pilot, alongside Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, Ed Harris, and Val Kilmer. Cruise and Kilmer reprise their roles from the first film, and the film is dedicated to Top Gun director Tony Scott, who died in 2012.

Top Gun: Maverick premiered at CinemaCon on April 28, 2022, and is scheduled to be theatrically released in the United States on May 27, 2022, by Paramount Pictures in IMAX, 4DX, ScreenX and Dolby Cinema. It was scheduled for release on July 12, 2019, but was postponed to “allow the production to work out all the complex flight sequences”. The film was further delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and scheduling conflicts. The film received widespread praise from critics, with many deeming it superior to the original film.

Test pilot Captain Pete “Maverick” Mitchell has purposely dodged an advancement in rank after thirty-six years of service. One day, Maverick is summoned to be put in charge of training a group of Top Gun graduates for a specialized mission under the orders of his fellow naval aviator friend and former rival, Admiral Tom “Iceman” Kazansky, who is the commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Among them is Lieutenant Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw, the son of Maverick’s late best friend and RIO Nick “Goose” Bradshaw.

When Maverick arrives, he is told by his commanding officers that the elite group of Top Gun pilots has been assembled for a special mission against a nameless hostile mountainous nation that has started to make facilities for enriched uranium. The assembled team under Maverick is charged with the duty of preemptively destroying the uranium facility in spite of its highly peculiar location deep inside a mountainous canyon protected by multiple SAM sites surrounding it.

Maverick meets the team of elite pilots, who greet him coldly. One of them, Jake “Hangman” Seresin, cynically keeps his distance from the other pilots, including Maverick. There is high tension between Maverick and Rooster when they meet, which at times breaks out into vented hostility and fistfights. When the training begins and the pilots see Maverick’s skills while flying during training dogfights, the other pilots begin to re-assess their skepticism about Maverick and some of them grow to appreciate Maverick’s talent for air combat.