The movie, from Paramount and Skydance, has gotten the best reviews of all of Tom Cruise‘s films, along with the most recent Mission: Impossible movie.
The movie has a 97 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes, which is the same as Mission: Impossible — Fallout (2018). As the last reviews come in, the score for Top Gun 2 could change by a point or two in either direction.
It’s possible that the first Top Gun, which was released in 1986, was a great box office hit, but critics didn’t have the same level of regard for it. Rotten Tomatoes gives Top Gun a score of 58 percent. 1988’s Cocktail is the low point among The Cruise films with a Rotten Tomatoes rating of just 7 percent.
This week, previews for the film Top Gun: Maverick, which was produced by Paramount and Skydance, brought in $19.3 million, making it the film with the biggest preview number in the history of Paramount and the film with the best preview for a Memorial Day release.
Top Gun: Maverick stars Tom Cruise, Glen Powell, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Lewis Pullman, and Ed Harris and is directed by Joseph Kosinski from a script written by Ehren Kruger, Eric Warren Singer, and Christopher McQuarrie, based on a story by Justin Marks and Peter Craig.
