Monday, 6 February 2023

Bottom Gun

 

Top Gun: Maverick (2022)


Directed by Joseph Kosinski this film stars Tom Cruise, Miles Teller and Jennifer Connelly. Running out of chances Maverick gets one last job in the navy, to train a group of pilots for a deadly mission.


The original Top Gun was one of the definitive pieces of 80s cheesy propaganda yet I still love it thanks to the careful guiding hand of Tony Scott which is sorely missing here. This is a paint by numbers effort that tries to get by on nostalgia alone. I could just about stomach it till we get to the silly ending which goes beyond even the generous stretching of believability I was willing to give this film.


2/5

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