A full-throated defense of the year's biggest popcorn movie.
Tom Cruise smiled! Tom Cruise sang! He buzzed the tower! He was having fun! Girls liked. It’s actually a very sad movie, and not just because Val Kilmer’s Iceman has cancer. As
, it recognizes all that’s changed so dramatically since 1986. The country has changed. Tom Cruise has changed. Cinema has changed., the film as well as the man, bears the weight of the years. And there is something about director Joseph Kosinski’s mournful style that speaks to this. It’s his ability to present a world that is maybe just one mutation away from rendering us completely irrelevant, which feels chillingly relatable.
, in which the characters are constantly dwarfed and consumed by the runaway forces of nature. Or the ravaged, lifeless Earth of, from which we’re told humanity fled long ago. Kosinski was the perfect director for a movie in which Tom Cruise, and Maverick, battle to stay relevant in a world that believes itself to have less and less of a need for human pilots, a world where machines are seen as more important than people.
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