Overseen by Vice Admiral Beau “Cyclone” Simpson (Jon Hamm) and Rear Admiral Solomon “Warlock” Bates (Charles Purnell of The Last Ship), Mitchell is tasked to train the best of the current crop for an extremely difficult air mission that targets a uranium facility in an unnamed rival country. When necessary, Maverick can fly circles around these youngbloods to prove his chops, but, after breaking too many rules with prior assignments, it took his old wingman “Iceman,” now Admiral Tom Kazansky (a returning Val Kilmer) and the Commander of the Pacific Fleet, bailing him out in order to bring him back to Top Gun as a teacher. He’s a true dogfighter with the confirmed kills to prove it. With shades of Lightning McQueen from Cars 3, Pete Mitchell is the senior legend in an increasing field of newfangled pilots cut from a different jib of specialized training. Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, played by, as many are calling “ the last real movie star,” Tom Cruise. The days of Marlboro Man-level cowboy pilots are virtually over– all save one: Capt. Updated for a contemporary environment, the raw machismo is remodeled to match the progressive excellence and fortitude demanded of pilots today. This gravity of consequence, importance, muscle, and heritage permeates every airspace of Top Gun: Maverick. The views and cuts of the mechanic crews at work and the screaming jets they unleash look and feel familiar, but they are presented closer, faster, and more powerful because these planes aren’t your dad or grandad’s F-14 anymore. Immediately after, Life of Pi’s Oscar-winning cinematographer Claudio Miranda and Kenny Loggins’ “Danger Zone” bring us back to the busy-body deck of an aircraft carrier. The same opening text defining the establishment and name of the Fighter Weapons School hits with that same Harold Faltermeyer bell, now boosted by composer Hans Zimmer, to announce the title and doubles that synthesized gong to add our character call sign subtitle. Top Gun: Maverick’s callback opening sequences set up and affirm the film’s solidifying intentions. In true, rugged fashion as a legacy sequel aiming for the pinnacle of performance on and off camera, the movie exerts the very same pressure of gravity on us as we find ourselves glued to our seats with every flyby and bead of sweat. Each challenging turn and sharp increase of speed pushes and pulls on all parts of the body from head to toe and the very aircraft they are flying. Inside the fighter jets featured in Top Gun: Maverick, the aviators must endure G forces up to nine times the norm, exceeding human limits of constitution.
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