It took thirty years to crank out this sequel. And I was all ready to dump on it, until I saw the aerial footage.
Unconventionally for a major Hollywood movie trailer, this one gives away almost nothing of the plot. What it does is show some *gorgeous* imagery that I wanna see on the big screen. Most of it even looks real, not CGI. A few details:
1) A couple shots of an F-14. The Navy retired those *years* ago. So… flashbacks?
2) One shot of Tom Cruise wearing a high-altitude helmet, another with him wearing a flight suit with the circular ring that such a helmet would attach to. I’m unaware of any such aircraft in the current US Navy; AFAIK, the U-2/TR-1 is the only plane left like that in US service. So… perhaps a bit of sci-fi element to the film, the Navy getting some new extreme-performance aircraft that Maverick test flies, perhaps? Go ahead and set the nerd-world alight and make it an F-37 talon.