Like many people from what I gather, I've never been all that attached to the original Top Gun. For a movie about plane dogfights, the aerial action is wildly hard to follow and the editing is at times incomprehensible. I'm sure it was a big deal at the time, but these days it works mostly as dated camp with some magnetic leads.
I had little-to-no expectations going into Maverick other than knowing that Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie tend to…