It was always going to be hard for Top Gun: Maverick to match the original movie, writes TomRTweets. 'But this is more than a simple homage to Top Gun...Maverick might be older and wiser, but he very much remains Maverick.'
, Tom Cruise returns to the skies inWhile the movie's release was delayed by two years due to the pandemic, age certainly has been kind to Cruise. His namesake's Navy career?
Less so. Maverick has only reached the rank of captain. An admiral, played by Ed Harris with Annapolis"ring knocker" aplomb, reminds Maverick that his career has plateaued at least two or three ranks below that which more than three decades of service should have entailed. Of course, it's clear why Maverick hasn't progressed to flag rank: Maverick remains a maverick. He wants to keep flying to the limit. Figuratively and literally, he retains"the need for speed.
The script writers start the movie by addressing the elephant in the room: the seemingly exponential rise of drones and their displacement of manned flight. Maverick, now a test pilot, isn't ready to accept this new age. He flies rather hard, perhaps too hard, to make clear as much. This leads to a rather amusing moment in which Maverick finds himself amid his fellow citizens in a somewhat unexpected setting.
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