TOP GUN: MAVERICK Flies High At Memorial Day Weekend Box Office With $126 Million
By Movieguide® Staff
Actor Tom Cruise recently reprised his role as the iconic Navy pilot Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in TOP GUN: MAVERICK.
The sequel comes 36 years after the original TOP GUN movie. The highly anticipated follow-up made its domestic debut over Memorial Day weekend after several COVID-19-related delays. However, the delays did not hinder MAVERICK, as the movie grossed $124 million between Friday and Sunday.
Despite his already impressive Hollywood resume, the movie marks the best debut for Cruise of his career.
A portion of Movieguide®’s review reads:
TOP GUN: MAVERICK is a sequel to the popular 1986 hit starring Tom Cruise. Cruise plays Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, who after 30 years as a fighter pilot is now a test pilot. After he crashes a supersonic jet, Maverick is sent to the Top Gun school in San Diego to pick six fighter pilots for a dangerous mission to bomb a uranium enrichment plant in a foreign country. He faces two major obstacles. First, the mission looks impossible. Second, one candidate is the son of his late friend, Goose, who died on a training flight with Maverick.
TOP GUN: MAVERICK is a terrific, powerful, exciting movie. It’s full of high drama and heart-pounding action scenes. This role was made for Tom Cruise. He gets great support from Miles Teller as Goose’s son and Jennifer Connelly as Maverick’s romantic interest. TOP GUN: MAVERICK has a strong moral, Pro-American, patriotic worldview. It also tells a strong redemptive story leading to sacrifice, forgiveness and reconciliation. However, TOP GUN: MAVERICK is marred by too many obscenities and three strong profanities. So, Movieguide® advises strong or extreme caution.
Although MAVERICK contains foul language, the movie celebrates patriotism and sacrifice, a refreshing blockbuster entry for moviegoers and critics alike, who gave Cruise and the movie high praise.
The box-office numbers prove that moviegoers will seek out the in-theater experience when movies contain uplifting and moral values.
Movieguide® previously reported:
Kari Crutcher, Ridgecrest Regional Film Commissioner, said that he hopes to recognize the sacrifice that military personnel and their families make for fellow Americans.
“We want to recognize the importance of military life in the region and honor those who have served. Memorial Day is a treasured tradition, and we don’t want to forget those who gave the ultimate sacrifice for our country,” Crutcher said of the event.
As for the movie and its actors, Cruise led the way in working to achieve the most realistic-feeling movie involving fighter pilots that has ever hit cinemas.
“I wasn’t ready to make a sequel until we had a special story worthy of a sequel and until technology evolved so, we could delve deeper into the experience of a fighter pilot,” Cruise said.
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