If you are a fan of the first Top Gun movie, you owe it to yourself to see Top Gun Maverick. If you have never seen the first movie (gasp!), you need to see that before you see this one. Only to understand the nostalgia and references portrayed extremely well in the follow up.

And it needs to be seen on the large screen!

If only for a few hours, you escape the news and social media hate in the world, it will do you good.

If it pulls on the American heartstrings inside you and makes you feel good about your country for a few hours, even better.

The flying is amazing and breathtaking but that isn’t the star of the movie. Captain Pete “Maverick” Mitchell is. It’s very nice to see the character again and how choices made in the past gives us the man we see in the follow up film. It’s a human story told in the world of seat of your pants flying.

Especially surrounding the son of Goose, Maverick’s flying partner from the first movie played by Anthony Edwards.

Like him or not. It shows us probably the only true Hollywood star or icon that is left in this industry.

So. Go see it. It’s probably the best movie you have seen in years. There’s also probably not going to be another sequel. Thank God!