Top Gun: Maverick (2022) is an action and adventure film that runs into an airtime of two hours and eleven minutes. The film comprises a cast of 97, in which Tom Cruise, Val Kilmer, Miles Teller and Jennifer Connelly being the most outstanding and the most sought-after actors.
Tom Cruise plays the cast of Capt. Pete “Maverick” Mitchell that arguably makes the viewers spellbound. Cruise is an iconic legend in his selected field of work. Any filmgoer would be interested in the role he plays. Cruise’s smart charisma and overwhelming potential make him a pivotal figure. I am personally moved by his extraordinary acting in any movie in which he finds himself as the most outstanding actor where he has got an intrinsic knack of attracting his audience right into his character.
Cruise is invariably a protagonist with a script writer’s choice of a cast that carries himself with an abundant sense of naturally flown and professionally crafted charisma in a movie.
Following the completion of a service that spans over three decades, as one of the Navy’s most outstanding aviators, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell is absolutely where he deserves and belongs to. He smartly pushes the envelope as a test pilot whose courage cannot be challenged while dodging the advancement in ranks that would ground him.
Maverick is entrusted with the task of training a detachment for a rather unique and crucial assignment. Maverick has to confront, defy, and square up to his past as well that of his uttermost fright and fear, crowning and culminating in an equally heroic and terrifying mission which demands the terminal, superlative and paramount oblation from those who have taken deliberate decisions to fly it.
I spotted an exclusive comment made by a certain American naval pilot who himself has spent more than 30 years in the Navy, during which his assignments were predominantly dedicated to dangerous flying missions that needed an unassuming degree of heroism and professionalism. He had noted that he initially flew F-18s and later ended up with Top Gun. His comments on Tom Cruise are not definitely pretentious and dramatic but truly authentic.
He notes, “An absolute must see multiple times and must be seen in Imax. The most complex and exciting aerial scenes ever filmed. This will be the best aviation movie in the next 40 years. Actors and real airplanes with very little CGI (computer-generated imagery)”.
I watched the film not once but thrice and still feel like repeatedly watching. Imax was definitely out of the park. In my point of view, I would say that the movie effortlessly tops the first top gun. It is rather interesting to note in the fact that every cast, despite the number being really high, is very well-researched, rehearsed and chosen.
Music played within is simultaneously edgy and nostalgic, which forced me to indulge myself not in a blissful but a ferocious and courageous nostalgia. Director Joseph Kosinski applies unique devices with the choice of his cast. His forte is outstanding and gives food to thrive in an atmosphere that would inject you with heroic vibes. As it comes with the female cast, it is open and clear that women are portrayed in an unassuming way that includes the tastefulness and independence that are surrounded by the smartness and the gravity of every cast, notably that of the protagonist, played by Tom Cruise.
It is undoubtedly about extraordinary actions that are brought into the eye of the curious cinemagoers, which are also included with an exciting and interesting storyline. The other most remarkable feature is the fact that it is clean and transparent with zero nudity in the more implied sex scene. An enthusiastic cinemagoer would probably declare that it is rather interesting and exciting to go for a movie that naturally gives you an array of excitement. It does not deal with political idealism and not certainly overdone with cursing and swearing. However, cursing and swearing were visible, but no complaints are possible for it was in context with the scenes.
The film is, of course, intense and reverting. It could often be argued that Top Gun Maverick is an ultra-realistic experience, aftermath an agreeably and pleasantly haughty, opinionated, and arrogant pilot, call-sign “Maverick” task and encounter of preparing a team consisting of younger, yet marvellously and incredibly skilled and talented pilots with the mission of destroying an enemy site under very stiff and catastrophic circumstances of high (‘g’) forces as well as that of the planes, belong to the enemy.
The movie demonstrates invariably realistic high (‘g’) forces, dogfights as well as war zones in a non-violent yet rugged, shaky, and risky way. Mild flyers are taken onto the screen in surprisingly rough and tight spaces going incredibly fast with cannons that lie exactly above them and high (‘g’) forces increasing and skyrocketing sinking right in their faces whereas narrowly avoiding planes of the enemy and gunfire that may at any time strike just up to them that may cause the planes of the protagonist as well as the same of the enemy to explode and crash.
Top Gun Maverick and its protagonist are a must watch that an ardent moviegoer who falls in love with adventure films should not miss watching. Tom Cruise is an idol and iconic in the essence of its narration. Cruise is a life wire in a film where flyers and the flights become celebrated. The flights of Tom Cruise can never rest at the hangars.