Top Gun Maverick is not a bad movie.
But it fails itself and the audience by not going the extra mile beyond being deeply self-reflective fan service.
Don’t get me wrong. It does a nice job with the fan service. The technology has improved. Cameras have improved. Workouts for actors have improved.
From beginning to end, there was nothing that happened tha…
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