Top Gun: Maverick

(12A) 130 mins
Director: Joseph Kosinski
Cast: Tom Cruise, Jennifer Connelly, Miles Telfer, Val Kilmer

After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell (Tom Cruise, of course) is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot. He’s still a Captain, though could have been an Admiral by now – but Maverick prefers to keep flying, thus respected by the real fliers.

When he finds himself training a detachment of Top Gun graduates for a specialised 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’. Facing an uncertain future and confronting the ghosts of his past, Maverick is drawn into a confrontation with his own deepest fears, culminating in a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those who will be chosen to fly it.

Tom Cruise’s thrilling return to the skies offers one of the year’s must see – at the cinema – movies.

“It’s a fresh-faced gloss on the original… powered, like the original, by a star who’ll simply never stop being a star.” Rolling Stone

“Top Gun: Maverick is as thrilling as blockbusters get.” Independent

“Unquestionably the best studio action film to have been released since 2015’s Mad Max: Fury Road.” Daily Telegraph

12A: contains infrequent strong language