Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

  Had to wait ages for this to come out on Paramount+ but it finally did.  

Thirty years after graduating from Top Gun, Pete Mitchell, codenamed Maverick (Tom Cruise), is still a captain, doing speed runs in experimental aircraft.  A pissy admiral (Ed Harris) wants to can the program to run his pilotless drone planes, and Maverick is re-assigned back to Top Gun as an instructor on a favor called in by his old rival-turned-friend Iceman (Val Kilmer), now a commandant.  Maverick has three weeks to put together a flight team to perform a real-world mission, taking the best-of-the-best and winnowing them down to the top four.  One of those possibilities is LT Bradley Bradshaw (Miles Teller), the son of Maverick's former wingman, Goose (Anthony Only-Appearing-in-Flashbacks Edwards).  Maverick has stalled Bradshaw's career in an effort to keep him from getting killed like his dad and Bradshaw resents him bitterly for it.  

It is definitely a Top Gun movie with all the needle drops, callbacks, and straight footage of the first film used that you expect.  By which I mean it's a solid action movie.  Maverick has never been a particularly smart or clever character; his main personality trait is that he's just suicidal enough to do ridiculous boundary-pushing things.  That's fine.  It works.  Don't go into this film expecting more than that and you will be entertained.