CRITICS ARE THRILLED

SO FAR there hasn’t been a negative word to be heard, an astonishing feat when it comes to film critics.

The San Francisco Chronicle raved: ‘Top Gun: Maverick improves on the original. It’s deeper, it’s not corny and it has a thrilling effect.’

David Ehrlich of IndieWire said: ‘If Top Gun was a fun film because it invented Tom Cruise, Maverick is a great film because it immortalises him.’

Hollywood ‘Bible’ Variety said that the film ‘takes to the skies as no blockbuster has before’.

It’s not just Cruise who’s eulogised. The LA Times said of Val Kilmer: ‘In one fictional moment, he gives us something unmistakably, irreducibly real, partly by puncturing the fantasy of human invincibility that his co-star has never stopped trying to sell.’