I must admit that this movie has some eye candy scenes and exhilarating moments, but this is what kept me from giving it all 10 stars.

1. It is not possible to eject at Mach 10+. Not without being in some sort of a capsule, I guess.

2. How many times would Tom Cruise grab aircrafts and fly them away without permissions?

3. How could Tom Cruise ride his motorcycle into an AF base without even stopping at a check point?

4. Why would you want to use bunches of cruise missiles to bomb runways instead of shooting these same missiles to hit such a tiny target as an air exhaust?

5. A country in possession of Su-57 fighters cannot part ways with S-75 SAMs? Ever since the mid-50s, past century? Where are their radars? Those SAMs don't guide themselves.

6. There is no single attempt to integrate any Wild Weasels to keep the SAMs busy. Why?

7. On the way home, why not drop to the same low altitude to stay away from the SAMs radars (that could not be visually spotted anywhere anyway).

8. How could a radio fuse turn on that F-14's radar screen?

9. Wouldn't the enemy F-14 refuse to fire at its "friendly" Su-57s? Or it instantaneously became US-friendly ones two American pilots crawled into it?

10. How could one defeat radar guided SAMs with flares? Those SAMs cannot even see those flares. It means nothing how many flares they released. Using chaff dispensers or some ECMs would make sense. Heavy maneuvering could help, too.

11. There is NO modification of Mi-24 anywhere that would have TWIN chin turret mounted gatlings. Forget about such configuration not making sense at all.

12. Why that Mi-24 would be trying to kill an already downed pilot, and from a point-blank range? There should've been some special forces chasing him on the ground. And they would not likely want to simply kill that pilot.

13. Two pilots who just ejected at high speeds AND then crash landed into an arrester net (that is not as gentle as cables) couldn't stay all healthy, smily and happy. No.

Plus, I didn't care for the secondary characters who just read their lines with no development or interest building. Absolute static 2D figures.

I couldn't sit through the entire bar sequences, plus the "relationships" scenes. Slow and boring.

An old admiral dies, everyone is happy, everybody is a hero, no one gets fired. THE END.