Top Gun Maverick ends up being a slower and more boring movie than the first one (which even if it was very slow and cheesy, had the element of surprise and.some good acting / character development). The first 90min are sometimes very boring, especially the scenes with Jennifer Connolly (why on earth such an actress picked such a boring role ?). The whole movie is made to be ranked as a General Audience: good or bad I let you decide but that doesn't help raising the movie's interest.

There is strictly no acting: it's a Tom Cruise "woaw how young do I look" and that's it. Jennifer is lame, John Hamm is awful, and the others (who ?) are ghosts. There is strictly no character development for the flying squad: the rivalry between 2 of them is not expanded, the female character (what's her name?) is there because she's a woman etc. Some scenes are truly third rate: the (very long) bar scene which is non sense and unrealistic and the beach one which is poorly trying to bring back an "all American 80s Rocky style". Finally the Jennifer / Tom love story is so lame : running into her again in the bar suddenly "he is not going to let her go again"

Then comes the last 40min with the mission scene: well executed, sometimes funny but does it does make up for the rest.

Poor scenario, poor direction, poor actors, lame movie.