Of late, it has become a practice to watch back all the classics, which had impressed me on my movie watching journey. This has been supported by the junk which has been delivered to theaters by team Hollywood.
There was no film that got me excited. Few did, but they fizzled out. For eg, I waited for the sequel to sincity, it backfired, like, I had to come back from the theater and re-watch the original since I did not want this experience to damp my original experience. Some sequels which still got my interest going are the John wick movies. I totally like them. It is like Keanu Reeves has now reached that point of his life and is doing what he was born for.
However, this writing is about Top Gun: Maverick. So let us dig in. This was my most anticipated film. Me being in an aviation industry definitely adds on to the expectations. I had loved the original. Once I watched the trailer and its making, I was totally hooked. Expectations as usual, for a sequel are generally high and boy, did it keep it up. The movie is fantastic. It is like a victory to the film industry called Hollywood. It is a victory to the experience Tom cruise brings to the table.
This is one film which is so loyal to the original film that you will mistake it for the original if you excused the age of tom cruise. I liked how much the film digs into the original, but still not overdoing it. It is not used to increase the mileage of the present film. Maverick stands on its own, but like standing on the shoulder of the original. The action is breathtaking. The cameras, the performance of the actors are top notch. The background score blends well. The conversations are well written.
The premise of contradictions are well brought out, without not blowing anything out of proportions. Every emotion is spot on and the time it is enacted is not dragged. It brought back my movie watching experience. If you call it a formula for movie watching, then I am ready to accept that. But then, all Hollywood movies are supposed to be planned on the same lines. But fail pathetically. The amount of groundwork undertaken to make the movie is evident. Putting the audience right in the cockpit, on the wings, on the cockpit, fantastic. The feeling was exhilarating. It is commercial movie making at its best.
This is old school movie making at its best. Watch it, in, theaters.
