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.