Tom Cruise's Top Gun: Maverick has already scored 100% on Rotten Tomatoes

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13 May 2022, 10:15

Tom Cruise must be punching the air. Top Gun: Maverick hasn't even been released yet but it's already making movie waves and being called 'one of the best sequels of all time’ and bagged a top rating on review site Rotten Tomatoes. 

Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell (Cruise) is back 34 years later and mentoring a new generation of US Navy fighter pilots. 

A synopsis from Paramount says: “After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell (Tom Cruise) is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. 

“When he finds himself training a detachment of Top Gun graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen, Maverick encounters Lt. Bradley Bradshaw (Miles Teller), call sign: ‘Rooster,’ the son of Maverick’s late friend and Radar Intercept Officer Lt. Nick Bradshaw, aka ‘Goose'.” 

UNILAD called it ‘one of the best sequels of all time’. Their review read: “Top Gun’s long-awaited, stupidly-doubted sequel represents a lost era of mainstream, shameless filmmaking: ultimately IP-driven, but huge-hearted, stand-alone bombast capable of rousing any crowd without serialised tidbits, teases and cameos, not to mention packing some of the most impressive, dynamic action the big screen has ever seen."

They added: “Top Gun: Maverick is blockbuster nirvana. In other words, it will take your breath away.” 

Empire seconded: “Avoiding the danger zone of mere retread, Kosinski and co deliver all the Top Gun feels and then some: slick visuals, crew camaraderie, thrilling aerial action, a surprising emotional wallop and, in Tom Cruise, a magnetic movie-star performance as comforting as an old leather jacket. Punching the air is mandatory.” 

Time Out noted: “Few Hollywood reboots can boast this blend of nostalgia, freshness and adrenaline. You will want to high five someone on the way out."

Collider reported: "Top Gun: Maverick improves upon the original in every conceivable way (well, the soundtrack doesn’t have Berlin, so that’s one strike against it), and does so in a way that might make this one of the greatest sequels ever made. 

“It’s also hard not to say this might have some of the most exciting action scenes to ever hit the skies, and gives Cruise one of his best performances by returning to the role that made him a star. Top Gun: Maverick is a marvel of a film, one that will truly take your breath away.” 

Top Gun: Maverick lands in UK cinemas on 25 May.