“If it all seems like a fight against the inevitability of age, mortality and streaming services, that’s because it is.” One Vogue editor writes of the new Top Gun film.
bears none of the scars and bruises of present-day reality. The landscape is gloriously sun-kissed and immaculately Californian, the actors eerily smooth-skinned and able-bodied no matter their age . There’s cocky patriotism, a doomsday conflict with a hilariously unspecified foreign power, motorcycles , a love scene in which Jennifer Connelly never takes off her pyjamas. The geopolitics ofare evergreen.
Do we need a plot summary? We do not. Suffice it to say that Pete “Maverick” Mitchell has been called back into service at the Top Gun flight academy to teach a bunch of Naval upstarts how to save the world, including the son of his late buddy Goose – and in the end must do it himself. There is an intriguing and quickly discarded theme about the automation of military flight , but, directed by the immortal Tony Scott, there was macho rivalry, tragic death and the actual Soviet Union.
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