Top Gun: Maverick is a 2022 action movie starring Tom Cruise. With Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly and Jon Hamm (Don Draper in Mad Men). It’s directed by Joseph Kosinski.
Pure entertainment.
Plot
After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Tom Cruise) is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. When he finds himself training a detachment of Top Gun graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen, Maverick encounters Lt. Bradley Bradshaw (Miles Teller), call sign: “Rooster,” the son of Maverick’s late friend and Radar Intercept Officer Lt. Nick Bradshaw, aka “Goose.” (Filmaffinity)
The Director
Joseph Kosinski
Director of TRON: Legacy (2010), he worked with Tom Cruise in Oblivion (2013). His last film is Spiderhead (2022), starring Chris Hemsworth.
The Cast
Tom Cruise
Tom Cruise is an American actor known for his roles in The Color of Money (1986), Rain Man (1988), Born on the Fourth of July (1989) and many others like Magnolia (1999), a film by Paul Thomas Anderson.
Tom Cruise was born on July 3, 1962 in Syracuse, New York, U.S.
Thomas Cruise Mapother IV (born July 3, 1962) is an American actor and producer. One of the world’s highest-paid actors, he has received various accolades throughout his career, including three Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for a British Academy Film Award and three Academy Awards. His films have grossed over $4 billion in North America and over $10.1 billion worldwide, making him one of the highest-grossing box office stars of all time. (From Wikipedia)
Jennifer Connelly
Jennifer Connelly is an American actress known for the films Labyrinth (1986), Requiem for a Dream (2000). Academy Award winner for A Beautiful Mind (2001).
Miles Teller
Miles Teller is an American actor known for his roles in Top Gun Maverick (2022) and Spiderhead (2022).
Miles Alexander Teller was born on February 20, 1987 in Downingtown (United States).
He studied Fine Arts and Acting and debuted with the film Rabbit Hole (2010), the film that starred Nicole Kidman (she chose him for the role). But recognition came with The Spectacular Now (2013) and Whiplash (2014). He has appeared in a a lot of films, such as Divergent (2014), War Dogs (2016), or Thank You for Your Service (2017).
He starred in the series, Too Young to Die and, of course, in the new blockbuster, Top Gun Maverick (2022), alongside Tom Cruise.
Nowadays, we can see him alongside Chris Hemsworth in a new Netflix action movie, Spiderhead (2022).
Movie Reviews
Engineered to hit so many of the same pleasure points as the original, ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ what the earlier film unforgettably referred to as ‘the need for speed.
Peter Debruge: Variety
“A worthy, often exemplary follow-up to the 1986 classic. It’s everything a summer movie should be.
Johnny Oleksinski: New York Post
Release Date
May 27, 2022.
Official Movie Trailer
