The sequel to the Blockbuster of the 1980s Mechanically and without any creativity an outdated recipe.
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Thirty-six years after the inaugural card of Tony Scott, Top Gun returns, carried by his duo of producers shock Jerry Bruckheimer and Don Simpson, under the patronage of the Immarcescible Tom Cruise, and with them an almost reminded idea of the Hollywood show fuel with air fights and patriotic duty. With such a return of flame, the objective is clear: restoring flashy, virilist, advertising and conquering imaging of the 1980s, the first part of which marked a sort of uninhibited paroxysm. The test pilot Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Cruise), aged but still operational, agrees to set foot in the “Top Gun” school, an elite base of the American army, this time as a trainer, To train the cream of young pilots for a mission in enemy territory (which?) As abstract as it is lasted, as an outlet of a detracted flight simulator.
Where we could wait for a passage from relay, this new version orchestrates especially the coronation of the star Cruise by an audience of young actors summoned to recognize his supremacy in action. To his recruits, the instructor learns to pilot old coucous, the F-18 and F-14 from the Cold War, the only ones capable of accomplishing the mission. Moral: it is in the old pots that we make the best soups – which also applies to the film itself, old -fashioned blockbuster believing hard as iron to the martial domination of the body (sculpted) on the apparatus (tapered). But it is even more on the nostalgia that Maverick capitalizes, continuing to convene, on a fetishist register, the scenes, places and characters of his model (a passage of which draws tears with a kilmer valley visibly weakened by the disease), erected Here with an unsurpassable reference, and mechanically duplicated without an ounce of creativity.