![]() Miles Teller stars as the son of Nick "Goose" Bradshaw in Top Gun: Maverick (Image credit: Paramount Pictures) To perform a Death Star-esque bombing run on the facility, the young pilots must fly through a narrow valley at both a dangerously low altitude and gravity-defying speed. ![]() The mission in question tasks said recruits with destroying a real-life uranium depository guarded by surface-to-air missile launchers and a fleet of high-spec enemy planes. For starters, the stakes involved don't only concern pride, but survival. The movie’s intro sequence is a near carbon copy of its predecessor’s equivalent, while even Maverick’s classroom entrance as a TOPGUN instructor imitates that of Kelly McGillis’ Charlie.īut beyond these superficial similarities – which are all, it must be said, deliberate and enjoyable references – Top Gun: Maverick tells a far more mature tale. Teller’s Rooster bears all the character traits of his father (right down to the mustache and drunken piano-playing), while Glen Powell’s Hangman is a gifted jock in the Iceman mold. ![]() If that synopsis sounds like a thinly-veiled rerun of the original movie’s story, you wouldn’t be far wrong – and make no mistake, there are plenty of callbacks here. ![]()
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