The first “Top Gun” unfolded against a backdrop of superpower conflict. Apart from the 2021 documentary “Val,” he hasn’t been onscreen much since losing his voice to throat cancer, and seeing him and Cruise in a quiet scene together is as sad and stirring as something from the Epic of Gilgamesh. Kilmer’s brief appearance has a special poignancy. Other reminders of the past include Rooster (Miles Teller), son of Goose, and Iceman himself, who has ascended to the rank of admiral and kept a protective eye on his former rival. With all this cool new technology at hand - you can binge 37 episodes of Silicon Valley grifting without leaving your couch - do we really need guys, or movies, like this? Pete, as I’m sure I don’t have to tell you, is the avatar of Tom Cruise, and the central question posed by this movie has less to do with the necessity of combat pilots than with the relevance of movie stars. The conversation with Cain is not so much a red herring as a meta-commentary. A teaching job, officially, but we’ll get to that. Thanks to new technology, flyboys like him are all but obsolete.īased on this scene, you might think that the movie is setting out to be a meditation on American air power in the age of drone warfare, but that will have to wait for the next sequel.
(Without “The Right Stuff,” there would have been no “Top Gun.”) He seems to be telling Pete that the game is over. Chester Cain, a weathered chunk of brass played by Ed Harris, who has an impressive in-movie flight record of his own. In the presence of a superior officer he is apt to salute, smirk and push his career into the middle of the table like a stack of poker chips.
military hierarchy can be a treacherous political business, and Maverick is anything but a politician. He’s one of the best fighter pilots ever to take wing, but the U.S. Pete, after all these years in the Navy - more than 35, but who’s counting - has stalled at the rank of captain. Every so often in “Top Gun: Maverick,” Pete Mitchell (that’s Maverick) is summoned to a face-to-face with an admiral.
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