I could not brow an emotional attachment with the characters in this film as I did with the first one. Tom Cruise carries the movie most of the way through but you could near say with a bunch of cliche scenes that were a throw back from the first movie.

I could say that the movie felt slapped together more for a cash grab rather than put together a great follow up script from part 1.

It was the usual script where they throw the manual out the window and let's do it the way that would get 99% thrown out of a training school whether it be a teacher or student but it's ok for Maverick to work right outside the laws that everyone else is given and get away with it with no action taken.

I liked two scenes in it and one was when Tom was initially in the bar and saw his ex wingman's son playing the piano and the scene where he met up with Val Kilmer. The rest was predictable and nothing new added to the story from part 1.

It was good but I really felt it was more of a let's run the 2nd movie to grab some extra cash rather than bringing anything new to make it more intriguing. Good and I sat through it but wouldn't go out of my way to watch it again.