The 2022 Tom Cruise starrer Top Gun: Maverick took the box office by storm after its release. The audience and critics were mesmerized by its story, performances, and cinematography. And it wasn’t easy for the filmmaker and its stars to bring out the incredible experience for their audience. The cast had to go through multiple training sessions, and the makers had to keep planning everything to make sure to get the right shot.
The film has impressed many since its release, and recently the navy pilots from the real TOPGUN flight academy weighed in on the representation of the training program in the movie and shared their opinion.
Experts Share Their Opinion on the Tom Cruise Starrer
The sequel to the 1986 film Top Gun: Maverick was one of the biggest hits of 2022, making over $1 billion at the box office. Critics were also highly impressed with the film and called it “one of the biggest third acts in recent cinema.” And the navy pilots had similar opinions as they watched the movie for the first time.
Navy Pilots sat down with CBS’s 60 Minutes to share their flight academy experience and thoughts on the 2022 action drama starring Tom Cruise. And most of them seemed pretty impressed with the flying scenes in the movie. Admiral Samuel Paparo said that he was highly impressed with the “realism in Top Gun: Maverick.”
Lt. Cmdr. Patrick Tucker also shared a similar opinion, saying, “The flying is fairly accurate, to an extent. The camera shots in the aircraft were…real.” However, he also found some of the things that seem to lose touch with reality in Top Gun: Maverick.
“But as far as the fake mission, and kind of the story behind it, maybe not quite as accurate,” Lt. Cmdr. Patrick Tucker added. Admiral Samuel Paparo also shared that after seeing some of the maneuvers in the movie, he would explain to his kids what they were.
Possibilities For a Top Gun Threequel
Top Gun: Maverick came back to the silver screen over three decades later, the first film in the series. The movie was a financial and critical success and has left many wondering if the studio would bring out a threequel in the action franchise or not.
While the studio has not confirmed anything yet, one of the stars of the 2022 film has said that he is open to returning to the franchise and that he has been discussing the same with Tom Cruise also. Miles Teller said, “That would be great, but that’s all up to TC. It’s all up to Tom. I’ve been having some conversations with him about it. We’ll see.”
Top Gun and Top Gun: Maverick is available on Paramount+.
Source: CBS’s 60 Minutes
