It took 36 years for Tom Cruise and company to deliver “Top Gun: Maverick.” Is it worth the wait? That depends entirely on your need for speed. The original “Top Gun” is a pop art masterpiece.
It’s one iconic scene after another as if the entire film was embedded in some universal cultural keystone, and director Tony Scott merely chipped away in the edit bay to uncover a fully intact mosaic of action movie genius. This Cold War-era treasure is so good in part because the Pentagon let Paramount Pictures borrow a real US aircraft carrier and a fleet of F-14s for just 1.8 million, according…The post The Best and Worst Moments in Top Gun: Maverick Ranked appeared first on /Film.
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