(McGillis’s character from the first movie, unmentioned in the movie, evidently found herself in the ejector seat.) I agree to the Terms and Conditions, Cookie and Privacy Policies, and CASL agreement.Īlong the way, Maverick is also obliged to romance a beautiful barkeep played by Jennifer Connelly. So he resolves to get his pilots out alive, though that is apparently not a top consideration of the mission commander (Jon Hamm). Maverick is not interested in burying a second generation of Bradshaw. (The pilots of enemy aircraft are entirely covered in opaque, Darth Vader-esque flight masks, unlike our uniformly handsome American heroes.)
That responsibility is exacerbated when it turns out Maverick must train these pilots for a very specific mission, navigating under the radar of mountainous terrain to take out a budding nuclear facility being built by a hilariously vague hostile foreign entity.
Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw (Miles Teller), the son of the late Goose Bradshaw, whose death made Maverick feel stirrings of manly guilt the first time out. Much to his consternation, these pilots include Lt. (Paramount Pictures)Īnyway, Mitchell is sent back to the place where he proved his mettle, the Top Gun flight facility where he is assigned to train the latest crop of the very best fighter pilots in the country. Maverick, is still a thorn in the side of the brass. This 36-years-later followup sees Tom Cruise’s Captain Pete Mitchell, a.k.a. (If you’ve seen the trailer for Cruise/McQuarrie’s new Mission: Impossible movie, Cruise gets an identical lecture from Henry Czerny - "Your days of fighting for the so-called ‘greater good’ are over" - proving The Usual Suspects’ screenwriter McQuarrie seems to be filling in the blanks of an iron-clad template these days.) "Your kind is headed for extinction," Harris says in the script-o-mat allegedly written by Ehren Kruger, Eric Warren Singer and Christopher McQuarrie.