Should you watch Top Gun: Maverick?
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Top Gun: Maverick
Film · 2022
After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell finds himself training a detachment of TOP GUN graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen.
The sides of Top Gun: Maverick
- A legendary pilot training young aces
- A mission that looks impossible
- A friend's son in the squad
Top Gun: Maverick is good for you if…
- you like real jets filmed for real.
- you want to feel the speed in your seat.
- you like a near-impossible mission flown low through a canyon.
Top Gun: Maverick is bad for you if…
- you want complicated characters. These are classic heroes.
- you roll your eyes at sincere talks about duty and the friend Maverick lost.
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