Top Gun: Maverick 4K 2022 IMAX

Rarely does a comeback more than 30 years later turn out to be so emotional and in many ways superior to the first film. It's a grown-up story about the weight of responsibility for past mistakes and correcting them for the sake of the future. Maverick, who has remained mentally somewhere in the '80s, is invited to teach young top-gun pilots the skills for a crucial mission. The new squad has one task - the destruction of the uranium plant, but it recedes into the background. The main merit of the picture is the retrospective of the heroes' actions and their consequences. Maverick's desire to somehow ease the pain of the loss of his comrade Goose, which torments him throughout the film, makes an indelible impression after their aerial duel with Bradley. Fate has also walked all over Kazanski, making him the likeness of Roger Ebert. All the youthful drive inherent in the first film is shattered as the American dream. One waits throughout the film for the iconic Take My Breathe Away song from the first part, but is faced with the realization: the hopes of the '80s heroes are long gone. And the only thing left to do is through the hardest choices to find forgiveness. Tom Cruise, by bringing this sequel to life, has closed the story of the Top Gun squad once and for all. If ever there was a point to be made in a story that began 36 years ago, it was this. Pete has found a son and forgiveness, and once and for all closed the possibility of another return.

In America, the picture was given a warm reception, both by the film press and the average viewer. It is a real patriotic film, which was so lacking for the Americans: the story of ordinary pilots with their vices and bitter past...