![]() The film, on the other hand, is a meta commentary on his own career. But Maverick, with his burning intensity and disregard for authority, is a particularly obvious stand-in for the famously demanding Cruise. In many ways, the actor has always played versions of himself on screen. ![]() This isn’t the first time that the lines between Cruise and his character have been blurred. And Maverick replies, “I know what’ll happen to everyone else if I don’t.” “You know what’s going to happen to you if you go through with this, right?” Maverick’s buddy asks him as he’s about to take off. This is a recurring theme in the film, which escalates the stakes every time you feel it has reached a crescendo. ![]() Hardly a stickler for the rules, Maverick makes a quick decision: he’ll go ahead with the test flight regardless, and prove to the naysayers that instead of the Mach 9 target, the prototype plane has the potential to hit Mach 10. ![]() In the first scene of the film-after that glorious credits sequence that unfolds essentially like a shot-for-shot remake of the first film’s opening minutes-Cruise’s Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell shows up on base only to learn that the higher-ups are planning on shutting his test flights down. I was reminded of this rather unfortunate incident while watching Top Gun: Maverick, pound for pound the best large-scale action movie since Cruise’s own Mission: Impossible - Fallout. ![]()
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