Director: Joseph Kosinski. Cast: Tom Cruise, Jennifer Connelly, Miles Teller, Val Kilmer, Jon Hamm. 130 min. War/Action.
- Pure, high-quality, flawless entertainment. This is why we went to the movies in the first place. The fact that to keep as entertained, a sequel four decades later has to copy the 80s movie formula and screenplay structure, scene-by-scene and point-by-point, from the opening titles introducing what "Top Gun" is, all the way down to the girl waiting by a Porsche at the end, ... tell us how having fun at the movies has been put on the back burner these days. Don't get me wrong: it's totally fine that this fun movie is an exact replica of an older fun movie, because they're doing it right. (As opposed to an idiotic piece like Star Wars - Episode IX, where the act of copying is done so awfully, it even ruins the older movie.)
- The unnamed country which is aim of the climactic attack, intentionally left blurry here, the "only other country that has F-14s", is likely Iran. I even felt the characters were pronouncing "uranium enrichment site" to the sound like "Iranian enrichment site". The mountainous terrain doesn't look like Iran, but how many rogue nations out there are secretly enriching uranium?
- Lovely near-tearjerking appearance by Val Kilmer, even though he's suffering from throat cancer (a true life fact cleverly incorporated into the story).
- Regardless of what we've heard of his personal life, you can't deny that Tom Cruise is still one of (or the) greatest action movie star out there.
MoGo's rating: 9/10
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