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Actor Tom Cruise soared to new heights when he reprised his role as Capt. Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in the action-packed thriller Top Gun: Maverick , shattering his personal box office records and even blasting past reality at times.
The minds behind the ’80s nostalgia-laced sequel flick claim they underwent painstaking efforts to keep the rip-roaring fighter jet sequences as tethered to reality as possible. But in an apparent bid to keep theatergoers glued to their seats in suspense, they had to sprinkle in some far-fetched tidbits as well, according to experts.
“The best way I can describe it is extremely accurate with the Hollywood embellishments for entertainment,” T.R. “Wombat” Matson, a former Navy pilot and author of Treason Flight, told the Washington Examiner . “I don’t think it would be as exciting or as entertaining as it was if it was 100% realistic.”
Producers of the movie, which has become the highest-grossing domestic film of 2022, collaborated with real-life Navy fighter pilots to get authentic shots of fighter jets zooming through the air and actors enduring high G-forces.
“In terms of the flying sequences themselves, particularly the effects of G … I think it’s better than almost anything we’ve seen in cinema,” Justin Bronk, a senior research fellow for the Royal United Services Institute, told the Washington Examiner . This image released by Paramount Pictures shows Tom Cruise portraying Capt. Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in a scene from “Top Gun: Maverick.” Thirty-six years after the original movie took place, the impulsive Mitchell finds himself a captain and serving as a test pilot. Audacious and reckless, he takes a stealthy, experimental hypersonic plane called the Darkstar on an unauthorized joy run, whipping through the air at breathtaking speeds in excess of Mach 10 until it heats up and explodes.
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