Natasha266

I waited so long for this sequel and my honest opinion is that it is pure garbage (they made a 2022 version of the old Top Gun movie). Half of the movie is stupid internal conflicts and a love story with a bad bad actress. The other half is similar but worse than the original Top Gun training movie. I can't believe they re-included the beach volleyball scene. One could seriously edit down this movie to 45-50min and make it snappy to keep the audience hooked.

Tom Cruise looked like a used car-tyre throughout. His eyes and body language indicated to me that he wasn't even keen on doing this movie. Everything was so predictable (US "good" army guys will take down the threat of a hostile foreign nation. Yeah we all saw what you did to Iraq and its oil). I stopped watching at a little bit over halfway mark. I just couldn't care if the newly trained team would be able to accomplish the 5-7G manoeuvres to take down the nuclear facility.

I feared it would be some social-justice garbage but surprisingly they managed to avoid this trap. The BAME and Female characters act well and give credibility to the story rather than being token characters. But it is Nick Frost (the repair guy with a penchant for supernatural investigation) who carries the whole thing. Simon Pegg has a minor role on account that he is probably busy with new Star Trek movie.

It is not a fast paced movie. I think this is deliberate so you will come back and watch it. It is created by same guy who made Shaun of the Dead and World's End. It is a comedy but with serious stuff too. Don't go expect Stranger Things. It won't bore you to death with social-justice silliness so relax and enjoy. All in all, a good easy going Halloween series given pandemic raging outside our door.

Imagine being a writer/producer with a warped vision of the world, i.e. men are bad. Then you create this cheaply made time-travel movie using a very odd-looking woman who works at an all-female warehouse and whose encounters are other odd women at the library but bad men at the bar. Either we have a woke opportunist as author/producer or this is really what he wanted to portray. Take a man's story and adapt for women because this is the time we live in right now.

The only reason I gave it a break=even score is because it has some gripping element. You will watch this without twitching for your phone or wondering what else is going on. I can stipulate how important it is to hook the viewer and keep them watching. This is why I ended my Netflix subscription. I started getting bored and they become to feminist woke.

Please watch "Source Code" after this. It will be like mouthwash for your brain.