Top Gun: Maverick Movie Review & Comments

[Casimir Harlow]

Top Gun gets the Blade Runner 2049 / Doctor Sleep treatment, with a decades-in-the-making follow up, which proves faithful, warmly fan-driven, gloriously nostalgic and surprisingly organic, showing there may very well still be a need for speed.
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[bruce-leroy]

You had me at 1986’s Top Gun.

 

[Drax1]

Top Gun gets the Blade Runner 2049 / Doctor Sleep treatment, with a decades-in-the-making follow up, which proves faithful, warmly fan-driven, gloriously nostalgic and surprisingly organic, showing there may very well still be a need for speed.
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Write your own review for Top Gun: Maverick

Great review Cas, and one that really made me smile knowing how fellow AVF members will be waiting with bated breath to hear your take. A 9 will do nicely, and has me looking forward to next week's cinema visit even more!

 

[bruce-leroy]

Cue @richp007 outrage that it’s not an 11.

 

[Stonedofmoo]

Sooooo excited!!
Great review!

Hunts for local IMAX screen

 

[Morden]

Thanks for the review Cas, I'm unable to go to cinema, so will have to wait on disk release to watch it.

But looking forward to see it.

 

[mooperman]

superb review cas - the opening 2 paragraphs need to be delivered like a sermon in a church

another week for me but first cinema visit in a year!

 

[invisiblekid]

Dragging the missus to the IMAX for this.

Can’t wait, it’s been a long wait till now.

 

[Will I Aint]

I'm hoping I will enjoy this, I didn't like the first.

 

[NorvernRob]

Great review. I saw it last night and loved it, can’t really add anything to Cas’s review other than yes it’s fan service, yes it’s immense in IMAX, and yes it’s a damn good film. I’ll be going again that’s for sure.

 

[NewAcousticDimension]

It will be interesting to see if the Blu-ray will be in IMAX Enhanced.

 

[Dans1210]

I was excited to see kosinski directing this, Oblivion is still spectacular today and vastly underrated imo. The aerial scenes in both Tron and Oblivion showed kosinski could pull this off with flair. Can’t wait!

 

[lucasisking]

Absolutely cracking review, Cas. As if I wasn't already excited enough. I'm salivating at this point.

 

[domtheone]

I'm hoping I will enjoy this, I didn't like the first.

The first is so damn cheesy I just can't rank it as a great film.

The second will have the playground antics again no doubt, but, as Cas mentions in the review, the aerial footage, with IMAX, is where it's at. That's what i'm making the trek up to Sheffield for. Nothing else matters. To me anyway.

 

[domtheone]

It will be interesting to see if the Blu-ray will be in IMAX Enhanced.

His last movie had it (Fallout). Hopefully they don't do a Dune and omit the IMAX stuff.

No IMAX. No 4K buy.

 

[jakimp]

i feel the need the need .......to rush out and see this on the biggest available screen

thanks cas great review but i was going anyway

by the way do you really think turning 60 is going to slow him down? i doubt it very much. he is the last true hollywood movie star and he just seems to love the job way too much to quit

 

[jakimp]

His last movie had it (Fallout). Hopefully they don't do a Dune and omit the IMAX stuff.

No IMAX. No 4K buy.

it will be in imax i am certain .. the imax scenes in fallout look amazing especially the helicopter fight scenes and this will be much better than that

 

[lgans316]

For me, Top Gun was a bit too cheese and overrated but its okay and in line with many 80s cheese.

Looking forward to watching this in the Cinemas (Dolby or IMAX TBD).

 

[richp007]

Cue @richp007 outrage that it’s not an 11.

It's alright, I can tell it's one of those "it's a 9 but we'll call it an 11" reviews

 

[NewAcousticDimension]

To those members who aren't going to the cinema, which I'm sure I'm allowed to ask as this is an AV forum , what do we think will work best when the blu-ray is out? Friday or Saturday night both films in a row? Or, Top Gun Friday, Maverick Saturday?
I know it sounds like detail planning - but this is important.

If they're separate days, we could align with Cruise's age, so Friday viewing could be with beer, hot dogs and peanuts, then Saturday aloe vera juice, a quinoa salad with some pills for our blood pressure and lumbar support on the sofa

 

[Will I Aint]

The first is so damn cheesy I just can't rank it as a great film.

The second will have the playground antics again no doubt, but, as Cas mentions in the review, the aerial footage, with IMAX, is where it's at. That's what i'm making the trek up to Sheffield for. Nothing else matters. To me anyway.

That's my issue with the film, everything is dialled up to 11 for essentially a recruitment film for the USAF. The characters are 2 dimensional to the point of being annoying, TC's character is supposed to be cocksure but it played too annoying to the point that I'm rooting for the MIGs, and I want to slap most of the rest.

I know it's of it's time but the original winds me up, perhaps another viewing after I've seen this will soften my ire and I'll try to watch it again. There are plenty of 80s films that are dated but watchable but for me this just isn't one of them.

 

[KeirW]

Seats booked for the 25th at the BFI Imax in London, can't wait!

 

[Donnacha]

Thanks for the review ....sounds great ! Cruise has won me over through the MI franchise with his incredible stunt work.

I was never a big fan of the original TG, but this I'm going to suggest the family get to the local IMAX for.

 

[Smurfin]

No mention of audio? Surprising...I can only imagine this will sound immense (I hope so).

 

[TimC]

So excited for this. The review has only made me more so!