Top Gun: Maverick

A lot of effort went into making this movie big and entertaining, and you have to appreciate that. Plot-wise, it’s interesting to follow a single mission from the early planning and training to its execution – and inevitable life-threatening complication. So, it’s a perfectly suitable piece of popular entertainment and desperate over-justification of military might. Beyond that, well, it’s not that surprising and it’s NOT Shakespeare. The preview for the next Mission Impossible movie was the best part.

(Afterthought: One of the funny bits in this is that there’s a guy named Bob and his nickname is just “Bob.” And everybody around seems sort of disappointed that he doesn’t have a badass nickname like “Jackhammer” or whatever. He’s just plain ol’ Bob.)