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Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

Directed by Joseph Kosinski2h 11mPublished May 30, 2022Episode length 59m
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Tom Cruise
Tom Cruise
Capt. Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell
Val Kilmer
Val Kilmer
Adm. Tom 'Iceman' Kazansky
Miles Teller
Miles Teller
Lt. Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw
Jennifer Connelly
Jennifer Connelly
Penny Benjamin
Bashir Salahuddin
Bashir Salahuddin
Wo-1. Bernie 'Hondo' Coleman
Jon Hamm
Jon Hamm
Adm. Beau 'Cyclone' Simpson
Charles Parnell
Charles Parnell
Adm. Solomon 'Warlock' Bates
Monica Barbaro
Monica Barbaro
Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace
Lewis Pullman
Lewis Pullman
Lt. Robert 'Bob' Floyd
Jay Ellis
Jay Ellis
Lt. Reuben 'Payback' Fitch
Joseph Kosinski
Joseph Kosinski
Director
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Overview

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.

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FIRST 15:45 are a spoiler-free review with our See It/Skip It verdict AFTER 15:45 it's a full spoiler review This week we're headed to the Mojave Desert and Fightertown U.S.A. with Ian, Liam and Georgia chatting a legacy sequel 36 years in the making. Did our complaints of the original carry over to the new film? Where

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FIRST 15:45 are a spoiler-free review with our See It/Skip It verdict

AFTER 15:45 it's a full spoiler review

This week we're headed to the Mojave Desert and Fightertown U.S.A. with Ian, Liam and Georgia chatting a legacy sequel 36 years in the making.  Did our complaints of the original carry over to the new film? Where are the emotional beats fall? Is this too much of an homage film and what is the right balance anyways? Find out the answers to these questions and more in our "See It or Skip It" review of Top Gun: Maverick and then we tell you whether you should SEE IT or SKIP IT.