A true rare occurrence of a sequel coming decades later and actually living up to the hype. The scene with Iceman is so heart wrenching on it's so tough to see what throat cancer has done to Val Kilmer

This was one of the greatest movies I've ever seen. I really hope if it's available in theaters that you and your father get to watch it together. It really was something else on the big screen. Edit: I'm also pretty sure that opening scene was just Tom working on his own plane lol

Great reaction! The stealth fighter in the opening scene is the F-35C. I like BOB too. And it doesn't stand for Baby on Board. It stands for Bombs on Basterds!

This was definitely my second favorite movie from 2022 (the first being EEAAO of course). Fun bits: The flight scenes were mostly real. They filmed in the mountains in Washington state and all the actors trained for 6 months to be actually in the planes. They're reported to have pulled 7.5G while filming. The Darkstar was overlaid on an F-18, so buzzing the general actually happened. The roof of the gate building lifting up was an accident they left in. Val Kilmer (Iceman) has throat cancer so can no longer speak. For the strained speaking portion they made an AI generated voice for him.

The P 51 is toms plane, i think anyway, i know he owns one. Its a very nice plane

Tom's plane and Porsche at the end. And yes, he's flying it. Dude has more licenses than most people have keys.

The 5th gen fighters were Russian Sukhoi Su 57 "Felon". That crazy maneuver was thrust-vectoring, which the aircraft (and the F-22) use their exhaust pipes to vector the engine's thrust and "flip" the trajectory of the aircraft in a very short distance

When I say that I've seen dozens of reactions of this film, I'm not exaggerating. I tend tend get hung up on a film, and sped hours binging on reactions. So when I say that yours was my favorite, I hope you get the full meaning. Truly enjoyed your reaction, seeing your love of the film, and it's predecessor. The characters. And the story. Well done. I hope your dad enjoyed the movie as much as you did.

The movie points out that Hangman has two victories, and Maverick has five, but it never gives Rooster his credit - he should be credited with one victory for the attack helicopter he shot down plus I think he would have shared credit for the two Sukhois Mav shot down during the escape. This is because I think I've read that the Navy gives credit to both the pilot and backseater for combat kills in a two seat fighter.

Great reaction, I am now subbed. My dad was also a Naval aviator, but I'm sure long before yours considering my dad flew PBY;s with Black Cat squadrons in the Pacific during WW2. Some consider them the first stealth bombers, painted flat black and flying long night missions over waters frequented by Japanese and into China at times. He returned home with 2 Distinguished Flying Crosses and 4 Air Medals. This is one of the greatest movies I have ever seen and your reaction did it justice. BTW, my mother's first husband was also a Naval aviator. Sadly, he was KIA and died on my mother's 21st birthday, leaving her as a single parent with my older half-brother.

Such an amazing reaction and such a great movie! The amusing thing for me that almost no one seems to get (though you basically did) is that Hangman is Maverick as he would have been in this era of single seat warplanes. The main thing that kept Maverick from being what Hangman was is that Mav always had Goose, who was his conscience in some ways, riding brakes on Mav's worst impulses and making them not so bad. Mav was responsible to and for Goose, and since Goose was his only family Mav usually held himself in check so he wouldn't let Goose down. Hangman didn't have a back seater to be responsible to and for, so he could go all out to prove he was the best he could be and better than everyone else, which justly earned him his callsign: because he'd always hang you out to dry to prove you weren't as good as he was. Luckily, and thankfully, Hangman learned the important lesson about teamwork through Mav, who uniquely understood Hangman's driven personality. Hangman's character development was a very well done part of the movie too, and that moment when he came out of the explosion of the fifth gen was priceless. In an early script, Hangman was to be Ice's son. I'm glad they scrapped that. I do get Cyclone's character. He's very much like Iceman from the first movie in many ways: absolutely by the book and no acceptance for anything outside of the book, even if it works. And I liked that they showed that Cyclone, for all his surface detachment, actually cared about his pilots (even Mav), especially when his voice was choked up during the "There's nothing he can do in an damn F-18!" line to the comms officer in reference to Rooster wanting to circle back. Plus, he also obviously cleared Hangman to launch as soon as they realized that Mav and Rooster had stolen a plane and were trying to return to the ship. Only he could have given the order for the catapult launch of Dagger Spare. And then here comes Hangman, riding in at the penultimate moment to save his friends. And it really was so cool to see Hangman learn to be the team player. I also liked that Warlock was always quietly on Team Maverick too. :-) The tech advances for getting us inside the cockpit with the actor were amazing! The actors had additional duties to their usual acting as they had to test and make sure the cameras were set and focused properly, that their makeup was good, and that the shots were as near perfect as possible. The director had the toughest time since all he could do was stand around and wait until the day's flying was done, then collect all the day's filming out of the onboard camera systems and take it to watch for the first time then and make notes for the next day's flying. Like you pointed out, Cruise's attention to detail insured that the actors actually had to go through an intensive training program to prepare them for flying in the fighters. I imagine there was some vomit hosed out of the back cockpit after some of those maneuvers. Even though the actors, from what I remember, were never taken above 4G, that's nothing to sneeze at. Especially over time. I know the Fury 325 roller coaster at Carowinds near where I grew up in Charlotte, NC is said to max out at around 4Gs, that's just for a short period of time. Of my friends who have ridden it at least two admitted feeling sick for a good while after like you did. I love that the WWII plane Cruise was working on at the beginning and flying at the end of the movie is his own personal P-51 that he is licensed to fly. He took members of the cast and crew up in it for fun in between work. That had to be a blast. Val Kilmer, of course, had been fighting throat cancer in real life, but it was important to have him in this movie and he wanted to be there. His voice in the scenes was a programmed synthesized voice, but it was perfectly his voice as it might be. It was so good to see them as such close friends, and to know that Ice had constantly been Mav's best friend and guardian angel, keeping him in the service no matter what Mav did to get himself dismissed. And it showed a lot of how well Ice really understood Mav, and explains a lot of Mav's behaviors in the early movie. I really loved the depth that they went into with Mav's character, though it wasn't made obvious or talked about at all. Mav is basically suicidally depressed when the movie starts, but he's not the suicidal type, so he looks for situations where he can go out doing what he does best, and then he fights to survive anyway because that is his nature. Ignoring how he feels (typical man, I know) he focuses on something that he can control: flying. All Mav has is the service. He has no family. Even Goose's family he's not close to, though we only learn why as the movie advances. The Navy and the people he works with, best shown in Hondo, are the only family he has. So he pushes beyond Mach 10 because the project is going to be shut down and he'll lose the team/family he's been working with and, knowing as he does that Ice has been fighting cancer, he is aware that his long-term guardian angel might not be able to keep him where he needs to be. His time is running out, and he's well aware of that, so if he stays in pure Maverick mode and pushes juuust a bit more, and a bit more again, then maybe he can go out doing what he loves before that is taken away from him too. So he does. But he survives. And his guardian angel is still able to shift him back to someplace he needs to be. And, whether this was Ice's grand plan knowing who all from Pete's history was there or not, Mav ends up where he absolutely needs to be to reestablish a will to live beyond the military. Reestablishment of his old family with Rooster. Rediscovery and, much more importantly, a new appreciation of an old flame (mentioned but never seen in the original movie). And suddenly Mav has every reason to not die in the cockpit. So, of course, he must go and do something that could very easily make him die in the cockpit. In a Hollyweird full of shallow and dull movies and shows with shallow, poorly done scripts and no actual thought behind them and shallow, unrealistic characters who only change in shallow ways if at all, a movie of this great depth made me so happy to see. I can watch it again and again and love it still. So very well done. For all the concerns I've had for Tom Cruise's weirdnesses in the past, he is absolutely a glorious hero for making this movie happen. Edit: And your jaw drop "Oh crap" moment when Amelia says what she does to Mav through the window, yeah, that's how I felt. This movie kept ripping out my heart, my guts, and my mind with all it did so well.

11:08 Not sure if you caught it or not, but the character of “Penny” played by Jennifer Connelly is actually the same “Penny” that is referenced in the original movie. When Maverick and Goose are being dressed down by the CAG. Right after Cougar turns in his wings and Maverick and Goose get sent to Top Gun at the beginning of the movie. She is the Admiral’s daughter that Maverick got in trouble for something with. That’s why they are making the jokes about pissing off an Admiral.

I know cutting these for you tube is hard and I must say your cut was excellent. But I must say leaving out Rooster saying "It's what my dad would have done" at the end was criminal.

The aircraft in the opening is a F-35C the USN does not use the F-22. The Raptor is a USAF fighter and is not built to handle carrier ops.

“Thank you for saving my life.” “It’s what my dad would’ve done.” 😭😭😭😭😭😭

Tom Cruise actually almost fell overboard during the sailboat scene. The reason you hear Jennifer Connely say are you ok? is due to the fact Tom Cruise slipped and just manages to catch himself before going for a swim.

"Talk to me Goose." Cue man tears.... Such a great sequel.

42:38 The F/A-1e & F/A-18f Super Hornets currently in service are physically bigger than the original F/A-18a, F-18b, F/A-18c & F/A-18d Hornets originally in service with the military. They are actually closer in size to the F-14, still slightly smaller, but the size difference isn’t that much.

Glad you watched it & even when (assuming it still hasn't worked out just yet) you & your dad watch it together, it'll be even that much better of an experience! A big thing that I love about this movie (& it's still just a glimpse) is the exposure to the logistics of the mission...It's not just a few jets going to shoot at the enemy. The carrier is Not alone, also having a whole ass strike group! Radar surveying the area, possibly a midair refuel point, communications, emergency services. It's involved! & I really like that part of the process was revealed as they were on their way to execute. & then one thing I 💯% freaking Love is the showcasing of the maneuverability of the Tomcat with the "splitting the throttles" moment! Obviously, it's not thrust vectoring, but it's certainly a "check out what this bird is capable of" spectacle! & it's 70s tech! ha

27:12 The F/A-18 Super Hornets currently in service right now have a safety system that would recover the fighter and return it to level flight in the event of an unconscious pilot. This scene of his jet being uncontrolled is only to add tension for the movie.

Watch it again and see that whenever it is about the storyline they go wide screen and the aviation scenes are all FULL SCREEN !!!! Can anything be smarter that those movie makers??!! Best. Movie. Ever. Brings back the 90s… aaaaannnnd no one dies! Even the bad guys all eject out of the bandits!!!!!!!

The enemy (cough...Iran... cough) fighter jets, the SU-57 Felons, can actually do the Pugachev Cobra maneuver seen in the film. Apparently, the other Sukhoi models that can do the same move are the SU-35 Super Flanker and the SU-47 Berkut-which never made it past the testing phase.

"They're beginning to believe" in a half Morpheus tone was spot on lol

just wanted to share this movie gave me serious heart palpitations seeing it at the theater ..it was top gun meets star wars meets mission impossible...favorite movie of the year!!!

Great reaction!! They couldn’t use “Take My Breath Away” love song for a different love interest. 😂

Hey bud you said that jet on the aircraft carrier at the beginning of the film was an F-22. No sir, it was a F-35C lightning ll.

The 5th Gen fighter name is the Sukhoi SU-57 NATO Callsign "Felon"

The enemies are Russian SU57 Stealth. And the 33 rounds left was onage to 33 years since original movie at time of filming

Great reactions - at one point you said: "So slow" - FYI, the F14-A Tomcat was a LOT faster than the 5th-Gen F35 (Mach 1.6) and even the 4.5-Gen F-22 Raptor (Mach 2.25), topping out at Mach 2.34 - which is why Maverick says he can't outrun their missiles (or guns) - he probably COULD outrun their aircraft...

Lockheed Shunk Works had fun with “Darkstar” creation. The Chinese spotted (satellite imaging) the film prop … thought it was real !! We can likely build “Darkstar”, BUT for what mission?

Love this movie! Loved the first, I saw it in theater when it came out. I had to wait 36 years for this sequel, worth the wait!

All of the in air shots, the flying was actually shot in real F18s. The g forces and the facial expressions are real. There's no CGI with the exception of some background images

Just like you, like ¾ of the movie I was like.. shit shit he's not coming back.. he's not gonna come back.. no way he's making it with all this for shadowing.. SO GLAD we were wrong. I was so stressed the whole movie 😂 like, gripping the theatre chair

The Enemy aircraft is a Russian SU-57 "Felon" You can watch it perform airshow maneuvers here on youtube

The 5th gen fighter they faced off agaisnt in the F-14 is the SU-57 Felon. A Russian Stealth air superiority fighter and an incredible machine. Sadly Russia doesn't have many flying. On the other hand our F-22 Raptor has been active for years. and F-35s Fly above my house weekly.

Those enemy 5th gen fighters are Russian made Su-57 Felons. The Russian pilots don't get good training like the US does, but the skill of the pilot matters more than anything else, and how they know what the machine is capable of doing.

“Bob” (Lewis Pullman), is Bill Pullman’s son.

This is my new favorite reaction to this movie! You joy was infectious, New Subscriber Earned❤

Bro, don’t lie! You know you edited out the “it’s what my dad would have done” because you balled your eyes out haha

For me this movie should have won the oscar for best picture. It is the perfect sequel that we have been waiting for. The "only" thing that was "missing" was a an updated version of "Mustang, this is Maverick, requesting fly-by." before he buzzed the tower for the final time ;-). So what do you think: Did "CAPTAIN" Mitchell *finally earn that promotion*? ;-)

That is his personal plane

That plane is Tom Cruise’s personal P 51 mustang

This perfectly balanced new story with nostalgia ❤

Actually the character of Hangman was written with Maverick and Iceman in mind. T. Cruise really wanted the actor in the film.

Love your reactions

Loved this!

'like 60-something?' Seeing the original in theatres is for 50 and ups.

About the enemy jet name, those are obviously Su-57 Felons, but I assume they don't want to deal with the legal/political implications of name calling Russian aircraft, especially now with the war, so they use the generation instead. About modern jets having guns, most of them have. When the missile era took off the US stopped adding guns to planes, namely the F-4 initially lacked a gun, but then they realized missiles weren't reliable enough yet so they added it back. Today most jets still have a gun despite rarely ever needing to use it. The F-35 B and C variants are one of the few exceptions, no internal gun, but a gunpod is available if necessary.

About that "it just turned like a car"... look up thrust vectoring.

17:57 "I need the Aviators" for this!" Haha. Great reaction to an Awsome Film. Thanks from Sweden. I recommend you watch "The Right Stuff" (1983). I think Cruise paid "hommage" to real life Chuck YEAGER in that film. Both movies start with a test flight - speed record, etc. You'll see if you watch "The Right Stuff", it's a great movie with very good actors. And a FREE history lesson!

The enemy jets in this movie that are the 5th gen fighters. Those are Russia'snewest fighter the SU-57 Felon. Where is the Tomcat is a 4th generation fighter.

I was 14 years old when Top Gun was released in 1986. Saw this in the theater by myself the first week. 36 year wait to get the sequel and this movie was worth the wait. Whether you do or do not like Tom Cruise personally his movies are all that. (if you don't like his movies I suggest talking to a therapist) Great reaction Sir and be well. 😁

fun fact: after they filmed the beach scene all the actor went to an resturant or something and ate a whole lot then tom call the to reshoot the scene again so they wen't back to the gym again Edit: I watch this because it's Tom cruise at first i wasn't gonna watch it cuz i don't know it my friend and I was in the mall so I thought maybe i will watch it and then i see it's tom cruise in the movie so i immediately change mind

42:06 my ONLY problem with this movie. The movie implies the enemy country is North Korea, although for geopolitical reasons it stays unnamed. However Russia has (so far) never given NK a 5th Gen fighter (SU-57 Felon here) and the only other country to have F-14’s is Iran. Iran bought them before its Islamic Revolution. When the still ruled by the Shah of Iran and were an ally of the U.S. Those F-14’s are dwindling though as Iran has to scavenge parts from out of service ones to keep to others in the air. Plus the U.S. keeps a tight watch on replacement parts to prevent sales of parts to Iran by law.

Yours might very well be my favorite reaction to this awesome movie.

These actually are good representations of the Su-57 (Felon) that are 5th generation fighters Russia is trying to produce. They do not have a "fleet" of them yet, as they outsource engines to China if all people and production is inconsistent right now. So they may have...... I'd guess around 4 or 5 that are truly 5th gen all aspect stealth and maybe 10 of them that are a kind of 4.75 gen air superiority fighter with the engine problems, but it is a guess. It is the same issue China is having with its J-20 5th gen air superiority fighter...... consistent engine production performance for a "fleet" of them, but both nations are close. Good portrayal in the film and with the idea of thrust vectoring and supermanueverability that has been a trademark for Russian air superiority fighters for the last few decades now.

Cruise was only 54/55 during filming.

23:40 Not quite the same bike.. the oe bike was indeed a Kawasaki GPZ900R, seen in the opening scenes of this movie. This bike in the later scene is another Kawasaki, but it’s called an H2, 1000cc supercharged. It’s quite the bike. 😎

Good shot kid that was one in a million!!!- Han Solo

watch it in theater

The P-51 Mustang is Tom's-

I have never once heard anyone compare Top Gun to Star Wars.... what? How?

Thats not a plane , its a P51D mustang , its the plane ! Lol i believe he owns one of this isnt his in the film ?

I still find it odd they don’t call The SU-57’s by their name and just labels them as “5th generation fighters”

Fo real !!!?. U didn't see in theatre???! U lived under a rock

I've watched a ton of reactions now for easily one of my favorite movies. Yours was easily one of the best!! Thank your father for his service from a fellow veteran (Air Force though lol). And no I wasn't a pilot like the badassery that your father was as a naval aviator!!🫡

47:00 Hans Zimmer - The master himself - did the music.

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Damn Really?? You cut the best lines at the end between Mac and rooster?? God damn Wow😡

I think it's incredible how much praise this movie gets considering it's just bad. Real aeroplane footage is always good. Not much of it in TGM, but what there is is good. The rest of it is memberberries and the Trench Run from Star Wars. Everyone seems to be just fine with the idea that Pete still has the same jacket, sunglasses and motorcycle as he had thirty six years ago? That his only interest is still those three months at Miramar? We don't get the slightest clue where Charlie went or why. Goose's son has grown up to be a cosplay of Goose himself? What, he had to have the same mustache, hawaiian shirt, piano skills, sense of humour and even has near enough damnit his dad's callsign? They say Mitchell kept him out of flight school, how exactly? You can look up the details, they just don't work, but you have to have conflict. Couldn't JUST be 'you killed my dad!' which would actually be credible. Remember Penny Benjamin? That name WAS said aloud. She's running a bar at Miramar? Why? Mitchell had never been to Miramar before TG, but he had been to Penny Benjamin so, after they had a low pass in the early eighties she just happened to move to the place where Mitchell works, but not BECAUSE he works there? Yeah, yeah. Mitchell is sent back to Miramar to teach an attack that is LITERALLY the trench run - fly down this trench at high speed to avoid the surface defenses, pull off a one-in-a-million direct shot with an unguided weapon directly into the facility's tiny weak point opening then get out before it blows? Direct parodies of Star Wars aren't THAT direct. All of which takes place in the famously snow and fir tree covered lands of Iran, where they also have a perfectly functional F-14 despite them having been destroyed, which is also kept fueled, no longer doesn't need a starter cart and isn't guarded. The establishing scene with the superduper plane has nothing at all to do with anything else that happens in the movie. Zero. The cafe bit was good, but that actually happened to an SR-71 pilot, so it's not creative, it's just a nice reference. The fight after ejecting was funny. Not side splitting but it opened a grin. No sane person would object to the gesture to Val Kilmer, although it is painfully meta, and amounts to an R.I.P. before the man has passed on, which is arguably pretty ghoulish. You could take all of the good bits in this movie and completely rewrite the script, and end up with a terrific movie, but they didn't bother. There's loads of pieces that could work that don't, nothing actually bolts together. This movie only stands out because it's a mediocre fruit in a decades long famine.

when people do a reaction to this movie , WHY keep comparing this to Star Wars trench run ? and keep quoting Star Wars ? this makes the reaction annoying and unnecessary ,

Cringe reaction...

Look how his teeth are!?? Look at the outsiders and look at his teeth lol