Top Gun: Maverick, greeted audiences emerging from lockdown with guns a-blazin’, coalescing three declining institutions in its metatext. America, movie theatres, and Tom Cruise may be past their peak, but god dammit, right now they’re still the best in the world.
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.