
Top Gun: Maverick
Feel the need... The need for speed.
2022 • 131 min • Action · Drama
Synopsis
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.
Our family guide
Best from age 13- 92 Reviewers · 12 · 75%
- 82 Audience · 11291 · 25%
After decades as a top Navy aviator, Maverick is tasked with training elite TOP GUN graduates for a dangerous mission. He faces his past as he prepares the next generation of fighter pilots for a challenge that pushes their limits.
- Violence & peril
- 6/10
- Language
- 3/10
- Drinking, drugs & smoking
- 2/10
- Romance & sensuality
- 2/10
- Scary moments
- 5/10
Heads up
- Intense aerial combat sequences
- Some emotional moments related to loss
- Mild language and suggestive remarks
What it models well
- Courage and bravery
- Teamwork and camaraderie
- Mentorship and legacy
- Duty and sacrifice
Talk about it after
- The responsibilities of leadership
- Coping with grief and loss
- The ethics of warfare
- The importance of following rules versus instinct
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Top billed cast
Director: Joseph Kosinski • Crew: Ehren Kruger, Eric Warren Singer, Christopher McQuarrie, Justin Marks, Peter Craig

Tom Cruise
Capt. Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell

Miles Teller
Lt. Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw

Jennifer Connelly
Penny Benjamin

Bashir Salahuddin
Wo-1. Bernie 'Hondo' Coleman

Jon Hamm
Adm. Beau 'Cyclone' Simpson

Charles Parnell
Adm. Solomon 'Warlock' Bates

Monica Barbaro
Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace

Lewis Pullman
Lt. Robert 'Bob' Floyd

Jay Ellis
Lt. Reuben 'Payback' Fitch

Danny Ramirez
Lt. Mickey 'Fanboy' Garcia
Trailers & clips
The Story Continues
40th Anniversary Trailer
Mock Dog Fight
That’s our Bob.
Mach 10
Director Joseph Kosinski on Making TOP GUN: MAVERICK
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Reviewer notes
RecommendedI'm a simple man, I see Christopher McQuarrie's name, and I get ready for some well-crafted action filmmaking. This is easily one of the best action movies I've gotten the chance to see in theaters, grounded in a rock-solid emotional foundation. The screenplay does an excellent job giving us all of its payoffs in a mesmerizing finale, almost as well as the Wachowski's SPEED RACER. Impactful stuff.…
RecommendedThis was a good movie. It has a pretty generic story, but its filled with a lot of heart and the right music at the right times. It also helps that on the technical side. It crispy clear video and amazing audio keeps you totally immersed.
Recommended**Wanna see the real cheesy, very 80s, bloodpumping, blockbuster movie? a movie that can lift your mood without being to complicated? a movie that can make you feel immerse in movie theaters?…
Recommended**Best movie of 2022 so far, and I don’t see what could possibly top it!** This movie is nearly perfect in every way. Top Gun: Maverick is a masterpiece, from the pacing to the acting to the cinematography to the character development to the casting to the writing. I can’t think of a single thing that didn’t blow me away.…
RecommendedThis is how American movies should be made. I have to confess I'd all but given up on Hollywood. The incessant woke indoctrination had led me to the conclusion, the US film industry, had little left to offer and then along came, Top Gun: Maverick. A simple, well rendered, military action flick that reinvents the formula for success and doggedly sticks to it. Everything about this film is polished.…
Recommended> Loved this movie. Even had me guessing to the end. Seems like every cast member picked to play their role was the only person that could pull it off especially for the song of Goose. 9.9/10 sequel never lived up to original this one did. 10/10
RecommendedHaven't seen a movie this perfect in decades. It was most obviously written and directed with the audience in mind - no politics, no preaching, no gratuitous sex, no woke, no offensive casting or characters. Brilliant, simplistic screenwriting and thrill rides.…
Recommended_Top Gun: Maverick_ is a sequel that is a leaps and bounds improvement over the original film. There’s better acting from the entire cast, more of an emotional attachment between at least two of the main characters in the film, and subtle humor that actually lands. But the film’s constant need to fly in the same flight pattern as the original film comes off as more of a restraint than a fond recollection.…
RecommendedIt seems like I have been watching the trailers for this film for years now - and you know what? Yes - it was worth the wait. The film is all about some truly exhilarating aerial photography that culminates in some super dogfighting and a good old dose of nostalgia.…
Not recommendedA lot of things in this movie do not make sense, like "why not use F-35?", "why didn't cruise missiles target enemy air defence and planes in hangars?" to name a few. The original movie had some seriousness built into it, the sequel I think is closer to a comic book movie. Very similar to the original star wars, especially the action sequence at the end.…
RecommendedTrusted family reviewersFULL SPOILER-FREE REVIEW @ https://www.msbreviews.com/movie-reviews/top-gun-maverick-spoiler-free-review "Top Gun: Maverick is the return of pure, nostalgic blockbusters, instantly becoming one of this year's personal favorites.…
RecommendedTrusted family reviewersWhat an excellent sequel - I, in fact, like it more than its predecessor. <em>'Top Gun: Maverick'</em> is fantastic, simply put. I was expecting it to be good, but it's actually much more enjoyable than I had anticipated. The callbacks to the original are expertly done, the new characters are strong/well cast, it has plenty of meaning, music is fab and the action is outstanding - the aerial stuff is sensational.…
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Details
- TMDB audience
- 8.2/10 (11,291)
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $170,000,000
- Box office
- $1,488,732,821
- Franchise
- Top Gun Collection
- IMDb
- tt1745960
- Official site
- www.topgunmovie.com

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