Much like their characters in the movie, they're learning to be the best. While the acting was superb from the Veterans, it wasn't all that great from the fresh new recruits. When the climax began, it's WAS exactly what I wanted, until it went on another 15 minutes to make the movie SOAR beyond my expectations. What matters most is: the setup for the film takes place perfectly in the first act giving us clear direction (something the original lacked,) and gave us goals with character building to anticipate and cheer on. Oh, and there's a ton of drama and obligatory dick-measuring thrown in. And just went he was about to use up his seemingly endless supply of luck, he got recruited back into the "Top Gun" division to get the elite ready for a, dare I?, almost Impossible Mission. But, rest assured: this simultaneously saluted the 1986 classic and then told it to hold its beer. Now, it certainly will not have the impact on the 2020s as the original did for the 1980s - that's lightning that can't be caught twice. AND THEN.the second half kicked in thoroughly SURPASSING the original by a landslide. The first half of this adventure made me feel this is the perfect and worthy sequel to the original. Aside from the RARE misfire, cough, cough, The Mummy, when Tom Cruise wants a movie to be better than perfect, he pushes it past Mach 10. See? This is why I LOVE Tom Cruise Post-Mid-1992. Rear Admiral: The end is inevitable, Maverick. Rear Admiral: You are dismissed, Captain. for reasons known only to the Almighty and your guardian angel, you've been called back to Top Gun. Rear Admiral: Call came in with impeccable timing, right as I was driving here to ground your ass once and for all. I want him on the road to North Island within the hour. Rear Admiral: Escort this man off the base. The future is coming, and you're not in it. All you did was buy some time for those men out there. Pilots that need to sleep, eat, take a piss. Rear Admiral: These planes you've been testing, Captain, one day, sooner or later, they won't need pilots at all. Rear Admiral: Well, the navy doesn't see it that way. Maverick: It's one of life's mysteries, sir. You should be at least a two-star admiral by now, if not a senator. Rear Admiral: 'Distinguished.' 'Distinguished.' 'Distinguished.' Yet you can't get a promotion, you won't retire, and despite your best efforts, you refuse to die. Only man to shoot down three enemy planes in the last 40 years.
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