Russ Gilbert

The lazy and amateur writing of Top Gun 2 resulted in a juvenile script worthy of a Power Rangers movie, (an Elite Top Gun fighter pilot with the call-sign, Bob?!), plus the blatant rip-off of a Star Wars mission from 1977 I'm surprised that they weren't flying X-Wing Fighters. The aerial scenes are amazing (when they eventually come after 40 minutes of unnecessary guff and waffle), but the rest of this movie is truly awful, with so many cringe-worthy and vomit inducing one liners, ("thank you for saving my life") plus some pathetic scenes and scenarios even by Hollywood standards.. (How many active enemy airfields allow you to walk in and steal the 30 year-old F14 they have lying about, and fly away unchallenged?) Its a slow, predictable, overly sentimental, cheesy and corny movie that could have, and should have been so so much better. If there was a Top Gun of movies, then this one should instead be flying a cargo plane full of rubber dog s**t out of Hong Kong.