Top Gun: Maverick (2022): ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: While definitely still a flashy and impressive recruitment film, is a much better film than the original, in that there’s actually a somewhat reasonable amount of plot and character development between money shots. Also lots of entertaining callbacks — the opening few minutes are practically a shot-for-shot redo of the opening few minutes of the original, just with modern equipment.